Colette Tajemna

This book was hard to get into. I was ready to DNF after chapter 2. The author's writing style was off putting and stilted: the words didn't flow. The pacing was slow, the mystery and all the characters were boring and I felt my eyelids droop on occasion causing me frustration because I had to re-read a number of pages when I just wanted to quickly finish the book and be done with it already.

This isn't a cozy mystery. Rather it's a snarky version of Scooby Doo geared towards the young adult market. The characters (more than 20) all melded into one with no distinguishing characteristics amongst them. They all acted and sounded alike! But I pressed on because it's like watching a bad movie. No matter how bad, you stick around because you want to know how it ends.

Well, I stuck around, finally finished it and ... meh.… (more)