NetGalley Review: The Perfect Crimes of Marian Hayes by Cat Sebastian

The Perfect Crimes of Marian Hayes by Cat Sebastian

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Rating:   ✩✩✩✩✩

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Cat Sebastian is one of my favorite authors and having adored The Queer Principles of Kit Webb, my expectations for this continuation of the series were high.  Needless to say, this book saw the bar I had set and just pole vaulted over it!

While this series does feature some feats of derring-do, these are “charismatic criminals” after all, that is not the point of the story.  The story is, in comparison to how elegantly the characters, plot and scenery weave together, not a page-turner.  However, the romance that builds, the relationships that bloom and the character arcs keep you entranced with this world.  At its heart this is a story about people falling in love and finding happiness despite their personal faults and all the ways that life throws up barriers to these kinds of HEAs.  The reader is in love with both Marian and Rob by the time the epistolary chapters conclude, and getting to watch two classic disaster-bisexuals fall in love with each other is a delight.  Add in layers of social justice, feminism and extremely consensual sex, this entire book is a winner.

My only caveat for the book is this: read the previous book in the series first.  Cat Sebastian has built a brilliantly connected world and there will be some aspects of the experience missing if you skip over Kit and Percy’s story.  Basically, I am telling you to read two amazing books…could be worse really. 

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Published by:Avon and Harper Voyage  Release Date: 07 June 2022  Purchase at:Amazon