Historical mystery | Devoured by D.E. Meredith
- My rating: DNF’d at pg. 76; Well I obviously won’t be giving Devoured the same glowing recommendation as the other two reviewers at Amazon have done. The three of us may have been reading the same story and while they came away with high praise for Devoured I didn’t finish it. Mostly I found myself wondering why I kept turning page after page when I genuinely had no interest in what little had happened in those first 76 pages. My hope for Devoured was that I would find a new historical mystery series to follow. That didn’t happen though all is not lost as my copy is destined for the shelves at my local library giving someone else the opportunity to read Devoured cover to cover.
- New-to-me author: Yes; debut novel I believe
- Would I read more from this author: No
Title: Devoured
Author/web site: D.E. Meredith
Publisher: Minotaur
Publication date & page count: October ’10 & 291 pages
London in 1856 is gripped by a frightening obsession. The specimen collecting craze is growing, and discoveries in far off jungles are reshaping the known world in terrible and unimaginable ways. The new theories of evolution threaten to disrupt the fragile balance of power that keeps the sprawling city in chaotic order – a disruption that many would do just about anything to prevent.
When the glamorous Lady Bessingham is found murdered in her bedroom, surrounded by her vast collection of fossils and tribal masks, Adolphus Hatton and his morgue assistant Albert Roumande are called in to examine the crime scene – and the body. In the new and suspicious world of forensics and autopsy examinations, Hatton and Roumande are the best. But the crime scene is not confined to one room. In their efforts to help the infamous Inspector Adams track down the Lady’s killer, Hatton and Roumonde uncover a trail of murders all connected to a packet of seditious letters that, if published, would change the face of society and religion irrevocably.
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Oh, no! What a shame — I’ve not heard of this one, but the premise sounds fascinating. Too bad!
I too thought the premise sounded fascinating and was excited to pick it up and start reading. Unfortunately my excitement didn’t last very long.
Maybe you needed to give it more to get good.
Maybe but I use the rule of 100 – take your current age and subtract it from 100. Whatever number you come up with is the number of pages your read before deciding whether to DNF a book or not. I actually gave it more than that number of pages. I also had a gut feeling that for me I wasn’t going to get better.
Thanks for the heads up – I’ll skip this one.
One less book for your towering TBR piles.
It sounds like it had such promise. What a shame it didn’t work for you.
I guess not every book is for every reader.