Silent in the Grave (Lady Julia Grey, #1)
Deanna Raybourn
"LET THE WICKED BE ASHAMED, AND LET THEM BE SILENT IN THE GRAVE." These ominous words, slashed from the pages of a book of Psalms, are the last threat that the darling of London society, Sir Edward Grey, receives from his killer. Before he can show them to Nicholas Brisbane, the private inquiry agent he has retained for his protection, Sir Edward collapses and dies at his London home, in the presence of his wife, Julia, and a roomful of dinner guests. Prepared to accept that Edward's death was due to a long-standing physical infirmity, Julia is outraged when Brisbane visits and suggests that Sir Edward has been murdered. It is a reaction she comes to regret when she discovers the damning paper for herself, and realizes the truth. Determined to bring her husband's murderer to justice, Julia engages the enigmatic Brisbane to help her investigate Edward's demise. Dismissing his warnings that the investigation will be difficult, if not impossible, Julia presses forward, following a trail of clues that lead her to even more unpleasant truths, and ever closer to a killer who waits expectantly for her arrival.
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03 stars is not bad. This is a I liked it didn't love it will pick up the second in the series rating for me.
Heroine: 3 stars - Julia is annoying. The whole mourning and this and that in this book is just dreadful. By about halfway through I start to like Julia more and more. Then the end comes around and I felt more sympathy for her. I'm curious to how she will have grown in book 2.
Hero: 3 stars - Brisbane is fun. He's a sherlocky type hero with a bit of a mysterious past. We learn some about him, but in a lot of ways it feels like he should have some sort of paranomal ability beyond his one gift. They always mention 'how strong' he is and what not. Very vampirey to me.
Plot: 3 stars - It took well into halfway through the book for me to feel like okay this is really going somewhere then suddenly when I hit like 85% the plot was just uncovered and it all fell into place. I felt like the author didn't really leave us clues to who it was and until it was all revealed we had no idea. I don't like that in a mystery novel. I felt we should have gotten more hints or something. I just was so meh by the end of this book.
Overall: 3 stars
0Originally posted at The Wandering Fangirl.
I enjoyed Silent in the Grave, but I'm still not sure why. There were many things that should have stopped me from reading very early on: the writing was decent, but not very strong; the plot didn't really seem to matter because our protagonist kept doing other things; there was the most random acceptance of feminism and homosexuality for the time period; the lead male and possible romantic aspect was waaaay too Interesting and Different and Perfect. But I still read on. I STILL READ ON. Maybe it was Lady Julia herself, maybe it was the fact that she didn't just blunder into clues and when she did do something stupid, she got called out on it. I don't know. I just know that I still read and was interested in every single chapter despite my problems with it.
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