let’s start his out with making something clear, that sadly needs to be said: i don’t support jk rowling’s stand or opinion or how she has chosen to treat other people.
at all!

i don’t plan on supporting her and her works from here on out since i don’t think i making others peoples life’s more difficult simply because you can and/or don’t understand them should be supported.
i do hope rowling will take the time to educate herself and become a better person in the future.


that all being said let’s get into the actual book.

i found it way to long and think easily half the book could have been crossed out without a huge amount of loss to anyone.

the mystery itself wasn’t bad, it was a good idea and how it all build up was done pretty well but because it was stretched out so much it lost its “wow” moment for me.

the writing is super readable but this book for me was one that i liked well enough while reading. but when i put it down? it took me weeks to pick it back up again. no real reason for it. it wasn’t because i didn’t want to know what would happen or it was actually boring... i think that it was just to slow to really grip me enough.

i also can’t say j am a huge fan of the personal relationships in this book.
i really liked strikes and robins relationship in the beginning of the series.

i liked that unlikely friendship and how they treated each other and how it just worked between dem even though it shouldn’t because of how different they actually are in everything.
i think that’s such a realistic view on people.
sometimes the most unlikely people come together through something or for some reason and it just works.

but now it evolved into this strange dancing around each other since both are technically on relationships - one is married!- and sure they don’t actually do anything about it but i think how they behave isn’t okay.

and they got a way to easy out of their relationship problems i didn’t like.


i also didn’t like the actual ending and how the climax came to be or was done.
it didn’t make a huge amount of sense overall to me why it has to happen like that

why didn’t robin hear that it wasn’t her husband? shouldn’t she know how he texts her? i found that very strange!
and even not just that but why would raphael choose to try to kill her instead of just waiting it out and see if the police will get him or just wait what will happen next and sit still? if he’s so sure of his plan and that it worked and that his stepmother would follow the plan why kidnapp someone and want to kill them?
makes absolutely no sense to me at all.

the entire reveal of how it all happens and why didn’t have to happen -yet again- with robin being in danger. that was unnecessary and at this point in the series and how often it happens especially towards or during the reveal of the series, it’s routine.

the book only ends after robin is under death tread.

i think the entire book and it’s reveal could have had happens at the police station and it would have been over with and done well.

all in all this book wasn’t my favorite in the series -actually it’s my least favorite in so far.

and it has nothing to do with my disappointment in rowling as a person but just with the fact that i think this book was dragged out to make it more expensive instead of a good book!

and i hate when authors do that!
i love a big book!
i love a big crime or mystery!
give me 800+ pages i will gobble those up!

it’s not a bad book.
as i said it’s an easy read but it would have been a great book at 400 pages instead of its 600+