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The Doves in the Dining Room
by Laura Laakso
mysterious
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
N/A
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
A novella classed as number 3.5 in the ongoing Wilde Investigations series, a series I love but have neglected!
In this Yannia is attending an aristocratic Mage wedding as a guest when two slaughtered doves and strange goings on make it clear someone is out to stop the wedding.
Assisted by the detective fiction loving groom, Robbert and hearth spirit Wishearth, Yannia once again is on the case.
Doves feels a little more traditional crime/detective than previous instalments but the fantasy elements still remain. As always, my favourite scenes involve the palpable chemistry between Yannia snd Wishearth, and any scene with Karrion - even when he is just at the end of the phone!
With a badass main character living with chronic illness, Doves also has fantastic #disabilityrepresentation extending this time with the groom being a wheelchair user. I love that Laura includes details of their lives in living with disability but without it becoming a plot point or defining them.
This series just continues to get better and better. A genre I wouldn’t normally read, it has really captured my attention from book one - with book four already nestled on my shelf, it’s jumped up my tbr as one I need to read as soon as I can!!
In this Yannia is attending an aristocratic Mage wedding as a guest when two slaughtered doves and strange goings on make it clear someone is out to stop the wedding.
Assisted by the detective fiction loving groom, Robbert and hearth spirit Wishearth, Yannia once again is on the case.
Doves feels a little more traditional crime/detective than previous instalments but the fantasy elements still remain. As always, my favourite scenes involve the palpable chemistry between Yannia snd Wishearth, and any scene with Karrion - even when he is just at the end of the phone!
With a badass main character living with chronic illness, Doves also has fantastic #disabilityrepresentation extending this time with the groom being a wheelchair user. I love that Laura includes details of their lives in living with disability but without it becoming a plot point or defining them.
This series just continues to get better and better. A genre I wouldn’t normally read, it has really captured my attention from book one - with book four already nestled on my shelf, it’s jumped up my tbr as one I need to read as soon as I can!!