I was definitely unprepared for the intentional killing of animals for dissection in this book. I even went back and reread the synopsis and there’s nothing in it that would lead me to think this would be part of this book. Even after this, I continued the book because it was an audiobook that I received through NetGalley and I wanted to give it a fair shot. 

The premise behind this was solid. It’s set in the 1800’s and definitely reads as historical fiction/mystery. It was really interesting to dive into the investigation during this timeframe, but overall I can’t get over the killing the cats thing. 

So the story was pretty good, the narrator was amazing but some of the content itself just wasn’t for me.