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Complex, long, frightening, and worth it. Full-immersion into this roaring-twenties-with-magic world, with a large cast of rich characters, and a truly scary serial killer mystery to solve.
Evie can read personal items psychically, and after revealing some small town secrets and creating a scandal she gets sent to New York City, where her uncle runs a museum of paranormal artifacts. Also in town is an occult killer, and Evie wants to help catch him.
Evie can read personal items psychically, and after revealing some small town secrets and creating a scandal she gets sent to New York City, where her uncle runs a museum of paranormal artifacts. Also in town is an occult killer, and Evie wants to help catch him.
Apr 23, 2023
Jennie
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it was ok
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After about a hundred pages I started getting a little annoyed by. 17-year-old Evie is Not Like Other Girls: she’s a flapper from Ohio with supernatural powers that get her sent off to Manhattan to live with her uncle, where she hangs out in speakeasies, gets drunk a lot, and tags along to grisly murder scenes. At 17. She’s also kind of stupid, selfish, and not very likeable.
More drunken nightclub parties ensue (she’s 17), and more grisly murder scenes.
This book has too many named characters wh ...more
More drunken nightclub parties ensue (she’s 17), and more grisly murder scenes.
This book has too many named characters wh ...more
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Enjoyable, though not a book I felt strongly about. She took a long time to assemble her cast of characters, and there were a lot of them, so it took awhile to get into the story. Also, the prologue tells the readers who the murderer is, which took away the suspense of watching the others figure it out. Once they had an idea of who it was and started trying to catch him I got more engaged in the book. I'd read the next in the series, though not in a rush.
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A long long time ago, when I was much more active on goodreads than I've been in awhile,I was active in a few groups. In one of those groups, there was another member, who would always be raving about these books and their author Libba Bray. And I mean RAVE ... it actually got to the point that the other member was very annoying about her love for these books. Fast forward to tonight, when I turned the last page of book #1. I was actually a little surprised that I actually liked it a lot. I am n
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Mar 03, 2014
Jessi
marked it as to-read
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Krista the Krazy Kataloguer
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