A Botanist’s Guide to Parties and Poisons by Kate Khavari
Publisher: Crooked Lane Books
Release Date: June 7th 2022
Rating: ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆
Based on the description I was expecting a much darker, steamier and complex mystery.
The good stuff:
Liked the premise
The exploration of women in science during the 1920s was interesting.
The mystery is solvable by the reader, but not overtly obvious.
Some of the characters were interesting.
Well-written, while the plot and characters need work, the writing itself is solid and paints very good imagery and sense of scene.
The less good stuff:
Slow! So slow, so much doesn't happen, then so much does!
Romance was meh, none of the characters felt developed so any secondary romance was lackluster.
Protagonist is presented as intelligent and competent, yet consistently makes bad decisions and fails to draw obvious conclusions.
All together I really liked the idea of this book, but it didn't translate to the page-turner I was expecting.
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