While I generally like this writer’s works, I thought he was trying too hard to be innovative. Didn’t work for me. Too many murders for too small motives.

I definitely didn’t want the story to end and like usual I never figured out Whodunnit. I did get some stuff right but cant mention what without spoiling the story. This book is different than the others and I thought at first I wouldn’t like that aspect but it turns out I did. This book was a bit sadder to me because of the conflict between my beloved two main characters but in a series that is what happens as an author is world building and slowly unraveling the real mysteries which is who is Hawthorne and what happened at Reeth and to his parents, etc. I cannot wait for the 6th one even though i know it’ll be at least a couple years—oh, how will I stand it? Anthony Horowitz’s series has made me excited to read again and look forward to something. Keep up the good work, Mr. Horowitz.