A Question of Holmes

Hello everyone on this lovely day! I hope you all enjoyed my halfway recap. I have since finished three more books Just Mercy, It Ends With Us, and The Inheritance Games. That makes 26 books on the year! Sorry I have been MIA lately. Things are getting BUSY. Now, for the review of the first audiobook that I listened to on my recently acquired library card. (Yes, I know I know, I should have gotten a library card sooner. BUT, I have one now!)

SUMMARY

Charlotte and Jamie are back! (And I have never been happier!) Charlotte thought she was finished. She thought she could leave the Holmes family behind. The "Holmes Way" of sleuthing and hyper-attention is still as stuck to Charlotte as it was at Sherringford.

Charlotte and Jamie are both taking Oxford Summer Pre-college courses to get ready for their upcoming first semester in college. Just when their shot for a "normal" experience arrives, Charlotte (and by extension Jamie) gets asked to investigate a mystery in the theatre pre-college courses.

Last year, a series of "unfortunate events" in the theatre group left a 4-person friend group completely ravaged by drama. Four best friends (and for some of the members, more-than-friends relationships started to form). Out of nowhere, Matilda, the star of last year's production and one of the four, disappears. Putting the pieces back together of their now three-person friend group, mysterious events start to occur again on the eve of this year's production of Hamlet. Enter Charlotte Holmes.

Can Charlotte solve the case? Does she have a chance at a normal life? What is in store for her relationship (??) with Jamie?

REVIEW

This cannot be the end. I need more. I need more. I need more. I loved everything - everything but the end. I just liked the ending. There is actually not much I can say in this review simply because I do not want to spoil the ending nor the direction Brittany Cavallaro takes the characters in this last ride.

I'll just say this - if you are a fan of this series, this book certainly does not disappoint. (Not the BEST on audio, so I recommend reading the physical copy; however, great, great book! Listening to an adult woman narrate a teenage girl's life was extremely strange.)

Age Range: 12/13+

Format: audio

Publisher: HarperCollins

Tags: YA mystery, series, Brittany Cavallaro, private school, Oxford College, theatre, 4th book

*TW: alcohol use, death, divorce, familial tension*

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