What did I just read...? The writing style is bizarre; I'm convinced that this was "written" by an AI fed thousands of YA and crime books instead of an actual person. Not one piece of writing feels natural. There's a story, but the way it moves along from scene to scene is nonsensical. Chapters are mercifully short but dialogue (when it exists) is cringe-y bad and every action in every sentence is given extremely distracting descriptors. I would recommend avoiding this at all costs.

This was a strong sequel in the Cherry Orozco Mystery series, it had everything that I enjoyed from the first book and had that mysterious feel that I wanted. I enjoyed trying to figuring out what was going on in this and that everything made sense. I enjoyed how Ilyn Welch wrote this and how realistic the characters were in this story. It left me wanting to read more in this series.