These books are so great. They have the energy that fairy tales should have, but added modern humor.

Reading this as someone who hasn't watched Drag Race or seen any of their shows, I found this extremely boring. I sped up the audio and finished it while working on a puzzle. It didn't get deep enough into their lives to be a memoir, it didn't give enough practical advice to be a self-help book, it wasn't funny enough (or at all) to be a humor book, and there wasn't any banter between the two of them.

YIKES. She is supposed to be wary of men and everyone, yet she lets this man she has known for a handful of days take her daughter to his house so she can sleep off being sick? FUCK NO.

And as if that's not enough, they have sex once (and it's not even described which kind of defeats the purpose of a romance novel in my opinion) and then get engaged, and all of this happens barely two weeks after they met?

And he hunts down her parents and invites them to Christmas and she is somehow happy that her parents who abandoned her are now showing up like they didn't do anything wrong???

Uh, no.

4 stars for being a great Sherlock Holmes novel, but 3 stars for being a good novel on its own. This was fun and I enjoyed the audio.

This book had no heart.

Isaac was a jerk throughout the book, and never changed. I also hate a character convinced he killed someone, only for the reader to find out he didn't. Such a lame attempt at emotion.

Bellatine was a boring fool who made bad decision after worse decision, and never changed.

The trio who helped them investigate the longshadow man were so indistinguishable and dull I've already forgotten their names and I literally just closed the book.

A thing happened, another thing happened, another thing happened, nothing connected, and the book was over. The whole thing feels like someone was assigned a folklore story for an english composition final and tried to rush through it in one night and they didn't care if it was any good.

Horowitz is really terrible at writing sequels.

I just love these so much.

I listened to the audio and I'm not 100% sure if the audio was terrible or if the book was, but I am 110% sure I am not going to finish it.

I listened to the first chapter three times and gave up and just tried to plow through, but at two hours in one of the main characters was referring to homosexuality as an abomination and I was done.