Well, that was anti climactic 😅 This series has been on my TBR for so long that I relented in reading it because I am currently watching the Netflix drama "Wednesday" I was looking for a YA thriller x mystery and this series seemed to be right up there.

[Blurb @goodreads]
Seventeen-year-old Audrey Rose Wadsworth was born a lord's daughter, with a life of wealth and privilege stretched out before her. But between the social teas and silk dress fittings, she leads a forbidden secret life.

Against her stern father's wishes and society's expectations, Audrey often slips away to her uncle's laboratory to study the gruesome practice of forensic medicine. When her work on a string of savagely killed corpses drags Audrey into the investigation of a serial murderer, her search for answers brings her close to her own sheltered world.

Nothing really special about the story itself, a lot of plot holes and looked like a semi watered down version of Sherlock Holmes - a fanfiction if you will. I get that FMC is living in an era where propriety and misogyny goes hand in hand but no need to fill up pages upon pages to remind the readers again and again. The identity of the killer is a dead giveaway when said killer was being described by the author but okay fine, I can play along and finish the book then pretend I didn't knew who it was, lol

There were splashes of romance here and there but it did not influence the story too much which is great. Although this is just a meh-meh for me, I can still give book 2 some time but not today.