The Wardrobe Mistress

I had a hard time with this one. The Wardrobe Mistress couldn't make up its mind whether it wanted to be a romance, a mystery novel, or a theatre procedural. Instead it oscillates between all three and never achieves a cohesive theme.

I also struggled with the “romance” portrayed between the two main characters. Love at first sight is all well and good, but maybe the characters should actually like each other too? They spend 3/4 of the novel bickering or assaulting each other.
Alistair almost forces himself on Vanessa at a point early on in the book and it made me feel sick.

Things softened towards the end thankfully, but the book also got more muddled and inconsistent in tone. At time boring and with too much minutiae, at others frustratingly sparse.

I won't be reading anything else by this author.