Jean

Interesting but not completely satisfying

Revisado: 09-21-21 El oyente recibió este título gratis

The theme, worldbuilding and plot of this book were interesting and fall under my reading interests, fantasy, romance and historical. And I liked what seemed to me like an original take on ghosts (I won’t say anymore that might be considered spoilers). But it’s probably safe to say that it reminded me of Jane Austen and Mary Shelley. However, while I find the stories in this series intriguing, so far I'm not fond of the characters and writing style. In the first book of the Red Slipper series, the Wizard King, the male and female protagonists relationship felt uncomfortable to me because of the virtuous female redeeming an abusive male trope, but at least they were compelling individually and together. In this second book, A Problem of Ghosts, I didn’t really get a good feel for the protagonists and other characters seemed not very fleshed out. Also, in this book, other than a few hints at the beginning that this was supposed to be in a fantasy Regency era, I didn’t feel like it was in the period for the rest of the book. Both books were also too serious and gloomy in tone for my liking. In any case, I did like the ending of this second book a lot, which I thought was unique and satisfying. Also, I enjoyed the audio narration very much. To me, since majority of most books are the narration part, and not the dialogue, it’s really important that this element is pleasant to listen to. This narrator’s storytelling voice is soothing, but dramatic when needed, as well as entertaining/engaging and moves the action along at a good pace. And her changes in voices for each character was convincing and helped add life to the story. Since this is a genre I generally like, I may give the third book (it has a promising premise) a chance if it's released in audiobook with the same narrator.

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