This was one of the gothic-looking books I was so excited to find when I was in San Diego. It had a questionable cover and not much information on the back, but I had high hopes.
A woman inherits a home from her great aunt. She's worried her cousins will resent her, but she's got bigger issues. Someone is pretending to be her and taking her stuff! She suspects one of her cousins might be behind the suspicious events, but she doesn't really want to believe it. Especially because one of them keeps flirting with her - which was pretty weird by the way.
Ok, so the entire book was 220ish pages, and this particular mystery was getting wrapped up around page 80 something. And I was confused. I looked a little closer, and this book had approximately eight stories in it. And I think I had an issue with every one of them.
The first one (the main story) had the cousins. One of the others had a manipulative man who wouldn't leave a woman alone. A couple of them had the "love at first sight so I'm going to stalk that person" kind of tale. Some of them ended without any kind of resolution between the two love interests. One in particular had a woman happily boarding a train to trail after a guy that didn't invite her to follow him. And the final story had a man pining after a woman for 20 years! Yeah, no one changes at all in 20 years...
This book bummed me out. I was so looking forward to a juicy gothic, and this was just nonsense and bad choices. I mean, who thinks it's a good idea to plan on marrying a guy for the sole purpose of getting a house back in the family?
I have another book by this author, so I was scared to pick it up in case it was like this one. I checked it, but it looks like it's just one story. The bad news is the print looks tiny...oh well. I don't have super high hopes for the other book, but I will give it a chance. It's just not super high on my priority list now.
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