#cold clay

Rating: 4/5

Review:

Yet another smash cozy mystery hit from the shady hollow mystery series! I absolutely love these books so much, and the sequel to the first Shady Hollow book did not disappoint. I love how well Juneau Black is able to make the mystery hard to put together but also gives the reader a chance to try and put the pieces together to figure it out before the big reveal. I’m not normally a big fan of animal character books or mystery books, but this series is such a wonderful combination of the two that makes the animal characters lovable instead of cringey and the mysteries cozy instead of scary.

I like to imagine the animals as Animal Crossing, Fantastic Mr.Fox or Hoodwinked. I saw some reviews complain about the characters being animals doing human stuff which I'm like? Personified animals are quite popular in media.

Anyway, I'd love to see a stop motion movie on any of the series, specifically Phantom Pond. Couldn't tell you why that one specifically, but I imagined it as stop motion. Has anyone else read the books? I wanna talk about them, but no one else I know has read them 😔 I'm going to start Twilight Falls soon, and I'm eyeballing Summer's End coming out this year.

Book haul from today…

I paid a visit to the book store today so I’m going to show you the stuff I got while I was there. The first three are part of a series and they are a murder mystery. I like murder mystery. I saw these the last time I went to the book store but I couldn’t remember the name of the books or the author by the time I got home. The other two books where books I found while browsing the store. I even…

It just lost me in the final confrontation. Especially when it took several minutes out of a short-ish run time to explain how the villain turned white because of an encounter with a snake. It had no connection to the plot and really didn't need that much time devoted to it. And while they spent so much time on that, they never adequately explained why the villain did anything she did.