Okay why was this so funny and cute and dark?

I just loved this concept. Your head lady at your finishing school drops dead over dinner and you don't want to be slip up from the girls at your Finishing School because you love them so you cover up the murder while also investigating it and suddenly you have visitors at your place every hour and then someone dresses up as dead head lady. There wasn't really any huge laugh out loud moments but the overall tone and the characters were just so fun!

Rtc

I really enjoy the characters of this and honestly, Mary and Francis is the real world got so fucked that it's nice that they got a rewrite. I don't think this is nearly as funny as My Lady Jane but as a historical rewrite...I enjoyed it.

A bit of a slow start but once we got to the lighthouse I really enjoyed it. Great main characters and lots of adventuring.

This was pretty entertaining. I kept getting distracted by the artwork because it reminded me of TinTin quite a bit which I grew up reading and watching.

DNF @ page 60

By no means bad, just not into reading this type of book right now.

DNF @ page 100

I detest the main character.

Loved. It was a bit too clean wrap up from what I was expecting but enjoyed it a lot.

There's a lot about this book that I liked but it was absolutely not the narration of the audiobook. It's the same narrator who ruined Stronger Than A Bronze Dragon for me! AGHHHHH! I made a conscious effort to disassociate the narrator from the content. I just like convinced myself I was hearing the narrator of the Charlotte Holmes series and it helped a little but PLEASE STOP RUINING BOOKS! You can do so much cool stuff with audiobook narration...stop doing this stuff.

I liked how dark this book was and it def didn't shy away from the murdery stuff. I liked the characters and politics and conflicts and trying to steal the throne games.

I went in aware that people were claiming this was racist towards African Americans. I was watching for that and I just...don't see it. I am not a person of colour but I feel like I'm self aware and comprehend microaggressions. I'm thinking that the YA Twitter community has started confusing the existence of slavery in a book as racism and holding a North American-centric POV of everything...which is rather concerning and why I avoid YA Twitter.