ofclumsywords's Reviews (486)

Finishing up my last book of 2024 by returning to Spy x Family. In this volume we see a more serious plot in diving into Loid Forgers background. The book opens to show Loid as a child playing soldiers with friends just as the war between east and west begins and how Loid lost both of his parents in the war and ultimately joins the army. We also get to see Loid join the spy agency he works for and how he was recruited and how Loid met Frankie for the first time. After that section of Loids origin was shown, we then return to regularly scheduled chaos of present day with Anya and Yor and their strange little family. 

This 200 some page book takes place over four years. In those 200 pages, there is a lot of trivial day to day scenes without a lot of progress in the murder investigation. Heather, the main character, makes a lot of out of the blue assumptions of who killed her parents and best friend. But all of her ideas are very far fetched and don’t make a lot of sense. It just seemed unnecessary and at times I forgot I was reading a murder mystery. It all felt like there was too much relationship drama and not enough of what happened to Heather’s best friend. Although, I have to give the author credit for writing such a despicable character that ended up being the murderer. Otherwise the book seemed to drag along until the final chapters. 

I am curious to see how this book connects to the other two books that make this a series. The person who recommended this series say that book one and two are stand alone books but book three ties the ending of the first two together. It will be interesting to see how these books all connect. 

One of the best mysteries I’ve read in a while. I love the idea that no one actually died in the book. Instead the plot focused on the disappearances and attempted murders. It was a fresh take on the well loved mystery genre and I’m so glad I picked this book up.  

The title needs to be renamed to: Obi-Wan babysits, and he is not happy about it. 

I listened to the audiobook version of this in the car and the sound effects alone had me invested in the story. It was fun to hear lightsaber sounds and music from the actual movies in the background as the narrator read. The story itself was tense and interesting and I can’t wait to see when the bad guy shows up again. Jude Watson always does an excellent multi-book story arc and I’m excited to see what trouble she has cooked up for Anakin and Obi-Wan. 

This book was like a warm hug. It had a strong theme of found family and finding a place where you belong. All through the book, Tao feels out of place and comes to terms with who she is as an immigrant and to open herself up to trust people and allow herself to trust and rely on others in return. This book had me laughing and crying throughout its beautifully written pages. Its exactly what one needs to cheer themselves up when they are feeling blue.