Thank you to NetGalley, St. Martin’s Press, and Minotaur Books for an ARC of this book. All opinions in this review are my own.
I first read Kelley Armstrong’s writing when I was in high school, back when the Darkest Powers series first came out, and I fell in love with that series. When I saw that this series was coming out, I crossed my fingers and toes that I would get a copy to read and review since it looked so interesting. This book is just as interesting and captivating as it seems! We have time travel – but it isn’t really time travel – combined with a murder mystery (kinda), and the beginning of forensics in the 1800s. I normally don’t like time travel books but this is one but isn’t one? And it is a murder mystery in that someone dies but they don’t die – you have to stop a murder but there is a murder? Listen, it is confusing to try and explain but it makes a lot of sense when you are reading. It is super enthralling. I was getting so anxious as the book was ending because I couldn’t figure out how it was going to end without being a cliff hanger. Answer – no cliff hanger in one sense, but a cliff hanger in another. Meaning I am now going to start a countdown for book 2. This was a trip and I really enjoyed the ride. Check it out!