nigmatillium
I went through and read this book, but I'm dropping the series. Things are moving extremely slow between Ellery and Jack. There was a sparkle at the end of the first book, but everything came pretty much undone here (I'm exaggerating, it just left me dissapointed after waiting a long while for the series to be completed so I can read it).
When it comes to the mystery, it is entertaining enough, but it doesn't make me want to come up with my own theories. The villain is seemengly revealed out of nowhere. Ellery definitely knows more about the other characters than the reader does and I felt a bit robbed. It's fun when I try to come up with my own ideas on who did it, but in this book, there were not enough clues for me to pick up.
I also went ahead and read some reviews from other readers which got me really confused. There's apparently a book missing, or publishing out of order. And also, about the relationship itself, things move forwards at some point. In this book we got a date and a pretty chaste kiss, anything deeper than that seems to be only implied in later books.
I went through and read this book, but I'm dropping the series. Things are moving extremely slow between Ellery and Jack. There was a sparkle at the end of the first book, but everything came pretty much undone here (I'm exaggerating, it just left me dissapointed after waiting a long while for the series to be completed so I can read it).
When it comes to the mystery, it is entertaining enough, but it doesn't make me want to come up with my own theories. The villain is seemengly revealed out of nowhere. Ellery definitely knows more about the other characters than the reader does and I felt a bit robbed. It's fun when I try to come up with my own ideas on who did it, but in this book, there were not enough clues for me to pick up.
I also went ahead and read some reviews from other readers which got me really confused. There's apparently a book missing, or publishing out of order. And also, about the relationship itself, things move forwards at some point. In this book we got a date and a pretty chaste kiss, anything deeper than that seems to be only implied in later books.