Status Updates From The Roman Hat Mystery (Elle...

Every line out of Ellery's mouth is extremely smug and patronizing.

Ellery comes off a a snarky bully rather than a genius.

I have problems with Djuna.

Man really struggling to stay interested. Mystery isn't interesting and everything just feels dry.

Also can't help but keep thinking about why Ellery is allowed to even be there.

Struggling with this one. Feels dry and more like a police procedural than I expected. Also didn't know I would miss the first person point of view from classic Christie or Doyle mysteries.

Lastly the dialog is a little hard for me to understand sometimes.

In progress -

I've read several books in this series. Some were quite good, others less so. I'm afraid this isn't impressing me so far. The pace is excruciatingly slow, in fact early on Ellery wastes a number of pages retelling exactly what we just read. Then there are the "of its time" elements that range from annoying stereotypes to animal cruelty.