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This is getting exciting 😁

Loving it

Liking it so far but a lot of flashbacks

Didn’t like the first 10 pages but now I’m hooked

Also Lenora can only use her left hand in a limited way so i don’t think she typed that non sense at the beginning

Some descriptions, memories are in a overly imagery style, ott and at odds with the rest of the book, dialogues and pov

Im on page 8 and the writing style is ridiculous
‘The dark chasm of the sea’, ‘I made a crazed, strange, strangled sound. Half laugh, half sob’, ‘the frigid rain pummelling my blood-soaked body’, ‘gasping at each sharp drop of rain’ ,

Now on to the second coffin. Still enjoying it and I have now realised that « harumph » stands for the character clearing his throat.
Starting to have a theory forming for the solution.

Though the writing style is a bit outdated, I’m enjoying this. I think JDR takes great care in setting the scene. We have a better understanding of who the victim was than the other characters but I’m guessing they will develop as the story progresses.
This reminds me of traditional Japanese mysteries where they also take great care in setting the scene, including a glossary of characters at the beginning

This reads like the temu version of HP - order of the phoenix mixed with stolen bits from Charlaine Harris but nowhere near as good as
Writing style all over the place, pointless swearing randomly popping up, cringe metaphors(arthritic branches surely not the best place to build a tree house…)the narrative is all over the place too