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I enjoyed being back with the mystery-solving duo of Juliet Tilney and Jonathan Darcy. They're adorable, and I'm rooting for them to become more than just friends. As for the mystery in this book, there are plenty of suspects and red herrings. Gray has done justice to Austen in her exploration of the feelings and motivations of all involved. However, there's also a lot of repetition. I think a sharper editing pen would not have been amiss.

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1. Spoil the ending, less stressful reading that way
2. Meet my favorite author
3. Romance novel, I would want to be always looking over my shoulder and being scared
4. Tough one, I‘ve always wanted to time travel and see history, but they don‘t always have luxuries or running water, so maybe Sci-Fi is the way to go
5. I recently skipped the 1st book and started at the 2nd. But I often don‘t get to the end of a series either.

This was such an enjoyable cozy mystery!

What I loved is how the JA characters stayed true to their “character” from the original text.

Can‘t wait to hear what the #BookClub says about it!

I‘ll be putting the other books in the series on the TBR.

Started this #audiobook 🎧
Listened to 25% in one sitting!
Loving the story and premise.
Super enjoyable listening 👂🏻

Claudia Gray was at Motor City ComicCon and she had her Jane Austen inspired mystery book there!

This will be book club‘s next pick.

To my mind, just as good as the first in this series. A first-rate mystery, but a continued homage to Jane Austen. I love stories with wonderful characters, and they are here in abundance. I‘d read the first book before this one, because it provides a full introduction to Jonathan Darcy and Juliet Tilley, but I don‘t think it‘s absolutely essential to enjoy this story. Definitely recommend.

I had a hard time choosing which of the dozens, if not hundreds 😂, of unread books on my Kindle would be my next read. I enjoyed the previous book in this new series. I hope this is as engaging.

I've been absent for a while due to one of life's curveballs, so I have a lot of catching up to do. I'm happy to come back and see winter/Christmas swaps getting posted! 🎄❄️🕯
This book was enjoyable, but it didn't capture me as well as the first one in the series - that may have been more about my state of mind than about the book, though, so I will definitely give the next installment a try when it drops. #Pemberlittens

#AutumnPlease

#Poison was the murder weapon in this book that I read for #Pemberlittens #JaneAdjacent & of course, #Scarathlon

+6 points & another 15 for using a book I read during the Mon h in a photo challenge for Team #SpookyGhostClub
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I was excited to read this follow up with the #pemberlittens crew. This time Miss Tilney & Mr Darcy are reunited during separate visits to the same area & are witnesses to the poisoning of Mrs Willoughby. They once again team up to find the killer. The mystery was less engaging this time (I suspected the murderer early on) but the slow burn romance between the two young people is really what carries thestory
#SeriesLove2023 @Andrew65 @TheSpineView

I was a little late starting this with the #pemberlittens but it was easy to catch up. I enjoyed revisiting the characters from the first book. The mystery was better in the first but this one was also enjoyable. It leaves a teaser at the end for the next book, so I‘ll definitely be reading it. I‘m also desperate for a proper romantic finale like in all Jane Austen books. It is a mystery book, but one can hope. Also, “my” Willoughby isn‘t as bad.

And with this rather overly-mellow historical mystery, weeks 1-2 of #scarathlon are in the books!
19315 points for #spookyghostclub @Clwojick
Thanks to everyone who's been hosting all the fun, spooky readathons and other activities this year🎃🍁🧙‍♀️

Got a slightly belated start, but thoroughly enjoyed this sequel and am already anticipating the next book.
#pemberlittens #janeadjacent

#Pemberlittens #JaneAdjacent Ch.25:Despite the irksome misunderstanding that keeps J & J apart for some time to come, I liked the ending of this book. It summed things up nicely, with humour & honesty. I liked that some characters were given an ending & others a beginning. I must say I look forward to the next book, which rumour has it features a certain Lady Catherine De Bourgh. All in all I enjoyed this sequel but I liked the first book better.

Read for #Pemberlittens #JaneAdjacent & also part of my #Scarathlon TBR

These books are so fun! I liked the mystery better in the first book (tagged below) but revisiting favorite Jane Austen characters with new ones added in (primarily our MCs Juliette Tilney & Johnathan Darcy) is a delight. This one did have some twists & I only mostly figured it out at the end.

I‘m still tabulating readathon points but this one is 20 + 1 + 1380 word search⬇️

I didn‘t love this like I did the first in the series, but I always have fun reading these adaptations with the #pemberlittins. I didn‘t do nearly as well as most of you at predicting the twists, somehow no matter how many I read murder mysteries are always a complete surprise to me. @StayCurious #scarathlon #skeletoncrew @Emilymdxn

I am so glad I discovered these through #PemberLittens ! Mr. Darcy and Miss Tilney are once again thrust into a murder mystery, with acquaintances suspected of murder. They‘ll have to clear names, #OffTheHook , and examine their own feelings towards each other. This has been a fun way to look at Austen‘s characters and new characters in Austen‘s works, and I‘m looking forward to book 3 next year! #JaneAdjacent #BBRC #YeahBaby

#Pemberlittens #JaneAdjacent Ch.23: well, for some of us, this is a shocker. For others, you already guessed this outcome. I‘m thinking this lowers his value on the marriage market, just a bit. Also, the Ferrars are just awful! ⬇️

#Pemberlittens #JaneAdjacent 21: Jonathan sees something about the gun mishap that alerts him - could it be that Willoughby is the guilty party in his own attacks? Well, one thing is certain, at least we uncovered the mystery of the lady in the blue cloak. I had a feeling it was she, but now I wonder - is she telling us everything or did she leave something out?

As often happens with buddy reads I get close to the end and keeping reading. I enjoyed the second book in this series set in the small village of Barton. #AutumnPlease #SmallTownMurder #PemberLittens

#Scarathlon #BatBrigade

20 pts themed book, word search 1050, readathon 320, 1 participation = 1391

#Pemberlittens #JaneAdjacent 19: more clues are discovered, with the newspaper, with the stable boys, and with the experimentations with arsenic. But we‘re still no closer to finding our killer or killers. And why is Beth suddenly determined to flee? ⬇️

#Pemberlittens #JaneAdjacent 17: Well, there you have it- it appears as though someone is out to murder Willoughby. Someone close by - unless it was the woman in the blue cloak again. In any case the plot thickens! As does my hatred of Follett. What a doosh!

“genteel people have the good manners to die in their bedrooms.” Hahaha gotta love Mrs.Jennings! ⬇️

#Pemberlittens #JaneAdjacent 15: poor Marianne! These anxiety/ PTSD attacks sound awful - no wonder she has turned herself into a recluse. But to think that it is Beth to come to her rescue?! Surprising for sure. Mainly because Beth must be jealous of Willoughby‘s attachment to Marianne. How could she not feel something when he left her and their unborn child for Marianne? ⬇️

There better be another one coming soon! #scarathlon #teamcryptkeepers #thrillerbooksbingo #femaledetective #cozymysterybingo #cup #ispybingo #cloak #falling4booksbingo #drinkoncover

I‘m finishing this up on the flight home from Boston! I‘m definitely at the point where I don‘t want to put it down. I have my backup book ready as well, for my neighborhood book club meeting that is on Tuesday night! #readeverywhere #pemberlittens @StayCurious

#Pemberlittens #JaneAdjacent Ch.13:
There is more risk in this sequel to Our investigators- could Colonel Brandon be right? Should their cease their work? Certainly not while the constables are bumbling fools. Still, more caution needs to be used. If Brandon figured it out, others might as well. Ch.14: Well, Jonathan may lose out on Juliet if he doesn‘t speak his true feelings. ⬇️

#Pemberlittens #JaneAdjacent Ch.11: it seems that every question that‘s answered comes with dozens of other questions and possibilities. I sense their frustration. I think Bamber was expecting this to be easy!Ch.12: ooh Darcy better watch his back! That Follett is mean and angry and definitely not thinking straight. Once again I find myself intrigued as to who the killer could be. I know who I‘d like it to be but that doesn‘t mean anything here.

#Pemberlittens #JaneAdjacent Ch.9:how interesting-With Wickham there was no doubt he was the intended victim but here it is more shady. Could the killer have meant to poison Willoughby rather than his wife? Or did the scuffle that happened right before the toast that Juliet witnessed mean that the wrong glass was given to the victim? I think it was meant to be Willoughby-how could the killer have guessed that Mrs.Willoughby would drink the port?⬇️

#Pemberlittens #JaneAdjacent Ch.7: there are so many reasons those two meddling kids should stay out of it haha but we know they won‘t. Once again, Gray is setting up several motives. How interesting. My money right now is on Beth but that‘s way too obvious I think. Why she would even want Willoughby back after what he did is beyond me…⬇️

#ScarathlonPhotoChallenge #DeathDead

We are reading this followup to The Murder of Mr. Wickham with #PemberLittens #JaneAdjacent group this month & Juliet Tilney has just seen her second #dead body. 😱 Who knew house parties involved so much #death ?!

6+ points for #Scarathlon Team #SpookyGhostClub 🖤👻

#Pemberlittens #JaneAdjacent Ch5: And so it came to pass that another has died at a gathering that Marianne Brandon is a part of. The tongues will be wagging for sure. But there are others with strong motive present, and there was that mysterious woman fleeing earlier that Darcy saw. I‘m looking forward to finding out more. ⬇️

#Pemberlittens #JaneAdjacent Ch.3-4: Oh what a scene btw Beth and that dastardly Willoughby! If anyone has motive to wish him (or his new wife) harm, it is she. And how will this awkward dinner party go? Bless Mrs.Jennings for the warning to Marianne. I am looking forward to a reunion btw Jonathan and Juliet though💕 ⬇️

“It was not a contest that admitted of a winner”

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#PemberLittens

##Pemberlittens #JaneAdjacent Ch.1-2 we fall right back in with our old friends Juliet and Jonathan, who, unbeknownst to each other, are both heading to Devonshire. Juliet goes to visit Marianne, and poor Jonathan to visit his old schoolmate and bully, Willoughby. Willoughby has just inherited a grand estate, and Marianne is dealing with some serious PTSD from the events that transpired in book 1. ⬇️

So excited to read along with the #pemberlittens with @StayCurious at the helm!

Today‘s library #bookhaul is one for #52Books23 (I only have three left!) and one for #PemberLittens - let‘s do this!

Look what‘s on sale today, #PemberLittens 😊 #JaneAdjacent #kindle #KindleDeal

Reposting for @staycurious
#Pemberlittens #JaneAdjacent In October we‘ll be reading book 2 of the Mr.Darcy & Miss Tilney series and this one brings us to another British locale where a mysterious death takes place - and who better to investigate than our intrepid and nosy duo? I‘m really looking forward to seeing more from these two. I am tagging those who showed interest but all are welcome to join in on my daily meme-ingful posts.

#Pemberlittens #JaneAdjacent In October we‘ll be reading book 2 of the Mr.Darcy & Miss Tilney series and this one brings us to another British locale where a mysterious death takes place - and who better to investigate than our intrepid and nosy duo? I‘m really looking forward to seeing more from these two. I am tagging those who showed interest but all are welcome to join in on my daily meme-ingful posts. Comment ⬇️ if I missed you!

If Claudia Gray wants to keep writing cozy mysteries with a Jane Austen spin, I will happily keep reading them.

Despite the regency era backdrop posing limitations to things like the crime-solving sciences applied and the characters‘ opportunities for inquiry (decorum is so restricting!), the mystery and investigation are still engaging. And it‘s just fun to wonder which and how some original Austen characters will be involved.

Loved it! This cute will they won‘t they Jane Austen fan fic is very engrossing. Can‘t wait for the next one

I enjoyed this second instalment so much more than the first! I think it worked much better to not bring all of Austen‘s characters together and that we saw more new characters than the first instalment. The mystery was well put together and getting to know Jonathan and Juliet more was enjoyable.

I loved the second installment of this series. Claudia Gray has very cleverly reimagined all of Austen‘s characters in one world, moving in and out of each other‘s lives in the most charming ways. I think it is best to read in order so you‘ll want to start with The Murder of Mr. Wickham. Great on #audio! #bookspinbingo @TheAromaofBooks

I loved returning to the Austen-inspired world that Gray created. We mainly focus on characters from Sense and Sensibility, plus our to young investigators, Mr. Darcy and Miss Tilney. Just a heads up, the ending definitely sets up for at least one more book, which I wasn‘t expecting. If you liked the first in the series, you‘ll like this one as well. Though you know what to expect so it doesn‘t have quite the same novelty. Still a fun read!

Overall, I enjoyed the second in this series. However, I often find that I need to take a break before coming back and continuing my read. But, when I‘m away, my thoughts wonder back to the story. So pro, the story is written in the way of Austen and the plot is enticing. Con, everything seems to go on just a bit longer than I think it needs to.

#ARC Expected publication is May 16, 2023.
A suspenseful sequel to The Murder of Mr. Wickham. It sees Jonathan Darcy and Juliet Tilney reunited, and with another mystery to solve: the dreadful poisoning of the scoundrel Willoughby‘s new wife. The amateur sleuths get another murder to crack when they‘re both guests at the Devonshire home of John Willoughby, a former schoolmate of Darcy‘s. Darcy s not fond of his host who bullied him at school.