Mer Barr
I'm always hesitant when I start the second book in a series because they either aren't about the characters I came to love in book one or it may be the same characters but the storyline is lacking in some quality that the first book had. This book is neither.
The references to the nursery rhymes of the 50 to 70s remind me alot of Ready Player One where you have to have lived in the era to understand the references. Here you have that requirement but this is not really about homage but about creatively tweaking those childhood stories.
It has plenty of complexity to keep the murder mystery good to the very end AND you have many of the same characters from book one.
I'm always hesitant when I start the second book in a series because they either aren't about the characters I came to love in book one or it may be the same characters but the storyline is lacking in some quality that the first book had. This book is neither.
The references to the nursery rhymes of the 50 to 70s remind me alot of Ready Player One where you have to have lived in the era to understand the references. Here you have that requirement but this is not really about homage but about creatively tweaking those childhood stories.
It has plenty of complexity to keep the murder mystery good to the very end AND you have many of the same characters from book one.
