Felicity Carrol and the Murderous Menace: A Felicity Carrol Mystery | 
panARC from long ago.
Honestly, I didn't much care for the mystery.
I had hoped to find a heroine similar to the ones in the lady detective books by Sherry Thomas or Deanna Raybourn. I found lots of tell with no show, and a pale main character that might only stick with me because I rolled my eyes and tutted at the book so often.
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robinb I had several issues with this one as well. 6y
julesG @robinb I wanted to list them all and then thought I just don't want to put my energy into ranting about a book. 6y
robinb @julesG Characters and writing were the biggies for me. 6y
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GingerAntics I‘m struggling with a book that‘s really good despite the telling and no showing. The story is great, but reading it is getting harder and harder. 6y
julesG @robinb I was waiting for Little Miss University Degrees to actually show us some of her skills and use her logical brain. 🙄 Granted, I recently read the latest Veronica Speedwell book, so it had a lot to live up to. 6y
robinb @julesG Yes, I kind of took it as an example that not ALL mystery heroines are created equal. 🤣🤷🏻♀️ Veronica is a very hard act to follow for sure. 👍 6y
julesG @robinb I was annoyed at Felicity from the start. She goes to visit Jackson Davies, who is important to her, she reminds him of having a degree in medicine, but when he has a coughing fit she calls for his mother for help?! WTF? Are you a doctor or not? I'd have expected action, her trying to make him feel better right then, not lectures about solving cases. 6y
robinb @julesG And if I remember correctly (it‘s been awhile), the writing was just choppy and abrupt...just not up to par for me. 6y
julesG @robinb Yep. Writing was not good. I was wondering how the author managed to get a third book into the pipeline. 6y
Hooked_on_books When I get to serious eye rolling, I usually bail. That‘s often my cue to self that things are not good! 6y
julesG @Hooked_on_books I persevered because it was an ARC. Might have bailed otherwise. 6y
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bailed
so-so
