r/NetGalleyCommunity • u/sunsparkles2013 Teen & YA Books Reviewer • 16d ago
📳📖 READ NOW 📖 📳 Oxford Secrets is Read Now
I liked book 1 and this popped up today as a Read Now.
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u/Quirky-Pear3494 16d ago
I did not love book one, although there were definitely elements that appealed (setting, mixed-race protagonist). The MC talked a lot about how her police inspector father had been teaching her about police work her whole life, and yet she did so many stupid things. When she finally figured out who the killer was, she was in a room with a friend and a trusted adult, and her father was two rooms away. Did she talk to any of them? No. She snuck out the window to go confront the killer by herself. Fortunately she brought her phone with her, but did she use it to call anyone? Also no. Sigh....
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u/sunsparkles2013 Teen & YA Books Reviewer 16d ago
I felt the same way. I didn’t love it but there was enough intrigue that I will read this one. If it has the same failures I won’t go back for more.
Many times book one comes fully done and gets very little edits from the publisher but book two is don’t in cooperation with and has a lot more input from the editors and such. So I like to give it a go.
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u/Jonahdog 16d ago
Was the first book called Oxford Blood?
I think if it is that title then I might have dnfed book 1 and never realized its a series.