I went into this one with really high expectations after enjoying "Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone" by the same author last year. While I wouldn't say that I'm disappointed, because I obviously still rated it 4-stars, I did not love it quite as much as I loved the first one.

Told similarly to the first novel, we're once again following Ernest Cunningham as he embarks on a train trip through Australia with lots of other Authors. Call it a murder-mystery author seminar with some rich fans who have come along for some fireside chats. Ernest is struggling to write his second book and he hopes that this trip will give him the inspiration he'll need. Obviously, a murder takes place and those left on the train are left to solve it, enter: Ernest's Second Book.

While I loved the overall story and I enjoyed my time reading it, I will say that the pacing seemed a bit off in true 'second book fashion' but I did enjoy that the author poked fun at second books which made some of those pacing issues actually enjoyable. I feel like there was a lot of things that repeated and wasn't crucial to the story but was simply used to fill up space. It took over half way through the book to get to the murder itself, and then once it took place it was like "boom" "boom" "boom" with other facts being thrown at you to finish it up. 

I enjoyed that there were mostly new characters with a few previous characters sprinkled without, and I did enjoy the ending and am excited to see if any other books come out of this series as I will be reading them to see what they're about.