Status Updates From The Cosmic Clues

Just getting started, will be interested to see how it progresses ahead.
So far, good introduction to characters and background on business, curious to read more ahead.

This is by far my least favorite cozy mystery I have ever read. I haven't connected with the characters very much and book only clutched my emotions at a point when something happened to a minor female character and in addition it's a lot of telling not showing!! I have gotten to the point where I don't care how she to her ideas and conclusions anymore she'll tell me at the end of the chapter.

I can't believe how this is written. I haven't done so many eye rolls in forever. After this book, I need to read another cozy mystery book to see if it's just this book or if the genre is always like this. Ugh. It's awful.......

Another mystery to solve. I wonder if we'll get to the international thief at all....

50 pages and the murder solved with more telling than actually showing. That annoyed me and Jatin (a character in the book)--a lot actually.
Apparently that murder is over and onto a thief now? We'll see how this goes.

50 pages and the murder solved with more telling than actually showing. That annoyed me and Jatin (a character in the book)--a lot actually. In addition, I came to a solid conclusion about something before the female leading character did.
But something is not right, it's too quick to find the murderer....naturally from how fast and easy it was in the first 50 pages and with 300+ pages left to read. Duh.

50 pages and the murder solved with more telling than actually showing.
But now I have 300+ pages left to find out the said murderer is not who everyone thought it was.

Oh. And I came to a conclusion before the female lead did which is sad. However, I have been reading cozy murder novels for most of my life, so I've been through this rodeo before.

50 pages and the murder solved with more telling than actually showing...is quite sad. but now I have 320 pages left to find out the said murderer is not who everyone thought it was.

Oh. And I came to a conclusion before the female lead did which is sad. However, I have been reading cozy murder novels for most of my life, so I've been through this rodeo before.

If that helper, "Jatin" doesn't stop uttering the title "Boss", I'm going to puke. Other than him, I am enjoying this very different flavour with a wholly transformed blueprint of fiction-writing.

It's hard to articulate how I feel about this book. It is so different. I think I like it better as it goes along. I'm savouring the 100% fresh setting: Pune, India *by* an Indian. Not a westerner visiting. The mystery's very format is turned around too: the novel isn't devoted to constructing one. Imagine on-going short stories, in order; told in novel format. Manjiri reinvented the wheel!