Charlene C. (mccoffield) reviewed on 6/4/2014 + 76 more book reviews

This is an unusual series, not a run-of-the-mill mystery series, cozy or not. Rebecca M. Hale is a good writer and a very unique author.

It took me some time to get into this book and its sequels in the series. My best advice is to "go with the flow" and don't over analyze things.

The story lines are a bit mystery, a bit fantasy, a bit adventure and a bit historical novel. The mystery part is just that there is a mystery (or two) to solve. The fantasy part refers to the authors propensity to humanize (give dialogue or thought process to) animals and sometimes objects. The adventure part varies from book to book and is usually tied into the historical part - specifically the gold rush era, though the setting is current-time San Francisco.

My guess is this: either you will become oddly enthralled in this different kind of mystery, or you will simply not appreciate the author's style at all.

I had previously read the first two books in another series by the same author - her mysteries set in the Virgin Island, which also are not your typical cozy mysteries. However, I loved the Virgin Islands books, so I had to try her cat series.

I do recommend this series to the adventuresome reader, but it does require a bit of "getting-used-to".

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