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A review by saylaurmoon
Every Time I Go on Vacation, Someone Dies by Catherine Mack
3.0
↠ 3 stars ⭐️
Overall, this was a unique, cozy mystery. I liked it but didn’t love it.
At first, I was not enjoying this. At all. I was not invested in any of the characters and initially found the footnotes annoying. I started it weeks ago and just kept putting off picking it back up. It was also hard to get past the formatting issues I had with the digital copy. I debated DNFing.
BUT—I pushed through and ultimately ended up liking this cozy mystery. The writing style was certainly fresh and unique. The narrator broke the fourth wall frequently, which I found entertaining at times. However, the mystery was not all that mysterious because it was glaringly obvious who the murderer was the entire time (in my opinion, at least). And not a single character was likable in the slightest. Okay, maybe other than Oliver. Everyone else kind of sucked.
The footnotes grew on me. They were humorous, but there were way too many of them (almost 300, actually). And the formatting of them was simply not ideal for Kindle. Reading them either required me to skip ahead to read them or I had to go back and find the point in the story they were referencing—breaking the flow of the story either way. I think they would be much more enjoyable when reading a physical book, unless the final digital version has improved formatting.
Thank you to NetGalley and Minotaur Books for this eARC in exchange for an honest review!
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Overall, this was a unique, cozy mystery. I liked it but didn’t love it.
At first, I was not enjoying this. At all. I was not invested in any of the characters and initially found the footnotes annoying. I started it weeks ago and just kept putting off picking it back up. It was also hard to get past the formatting issues I had with the digital copy. I debated DNFing.
BUT—I pushed through and ultimately ended up liking this cozy mystery. The writing style was certainly fresh and unique. The narrator broke the fourth wall frequently, which I found entertaining at times. However, the mystery was not all that mysterious because it was glaringly obvious who the murderer was the entire time (in my opinion, at least). And not a single character was likable in the slightest. Okay, maybe other than Oliver. Everyone else kind of sucked.
The footnotes grew on me. They were humorous, but there were way too many of them (almost 300, actually). And the formatting of them was simply not ideal for Kindle. Reading them either required me to skip ahead to read them or I had to go back and find the point in the story they were referencing—breaking the flow of the story either way. I think they would be much more enjoyable when reading a physical book, unless the final digital version has improved formatting.
Thank you to NetGalley and Minotaur Books for this eARC in exchange for an honest review!
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