The House of Marvellous Books

I received a free digital ARC from the publisher via Netgalley in exchange for an honest and unbiased review

There's a potential for coziness in this book, and something almost comforting about the repetition in Mortimer's diary entries. However, I was very close to not finishing this book. If I hadn't been reading it for Netgalley, I would have set it aside a few chapters in.

The narration style is verbose, the main character - Mortimer - is bland, pretentious, and unlikeable, and the supporting characters equally so. All of this would be easy to overlook or accept if there were a plot, yet nothing of note happens. I'm all for books where there's no real plot, where the atmosphere of the book is the whole experience, but this wasn't one of those.

That being said, it's likely that I was just not the target audience for this book.