Julia

4.5*
I really liked this first book. We follow multiple points of view, so in the beginning there are parts where we don't know who is the character that is the point of the view.
There were two things that frustated me. The first one was keeping from us what the Erica and Patrik discovered, one example of this was when Erica redialled a number to discover who the last call was made to. And she is surprised to who the voicemail belongs to, but we don't learn who it is until later in the book.
The second thing, was the “romance”, which I didn't feel like was a romance at all. Erica and Patrik have two dinners and didn't talk for very long and then they have a lot of sex (not explicit) and then suddenly, it is like they feel like they were made to be and they feel perfect for each other. I though it was very rushed and forced, like she wanted to settle then as a couple in the first book.

My first Jane Austen book. I really liked the narrator and the main character. I enjoyed the first half of the book, but after they went to Northanger Abbey, I started to lose interest.
I was not expecting the ending. Since the narrator describes our main character as a heroine, I was expecting more of a adventure book (and forgot that this was a Jane Austen book, so a romance), but what the narrator meant was that she was the main character of her romance story. So when she got engaged, I was surprised and not expecting that at all.

I definitily not going to read another book by this author, I really did not like his writing style. It was like reading a wikipedia page but ten times worse.

He also made me dislike or pity all the character in the book, while he was trying to make the readers like them.

Arthur is a creepy, Gawaine is a like a moody teenager, Merlin is a creeoy toward beautiful young girls, Pellias was tricked and kidnapped (but it was made to look like it was an honour that he was able to go to the fairy world) and Guinivere is just there.

This makes me hesitate to read any other arthurian legends books.

I really enjoyed the story of the book, but I hated the writing style.

There was four ppint of views, all in first person. And we mostly just read the thoughts of our characters and what are they feeling, there are almost no conversations. And when there were I felt they were lacking because they only happened between two characters, there was almost no interaction between the four charcaters at the same time.

There were also a lot of minor time skips that happened when chapters changed between characters, so we lost of interactions that I wanted to see.

This book was disapointing in many aspects, I was expecting a cozy mystery with a cat that helps the main character solve the case. And technically we got that, but this book was not cozy enough and the cat participation let a lot to be desired.
In this book there is no point of view of the cat, and since the main character has no experience in dealling with cats his responses to the cat actions were annoying, even though I have read books with characters that are interacting with cats for the first time and liked them, in this one I was left annoyed and disspaointed.

I will not continue with this series.