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  Jocelyn_Phoenix

  11 марта 2026

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  This is a bit of a letdown - and another addition to my current apparent streak of 2-3 starred books.
  
  I quite liked the first two books in this series but this one just doesn’t compare. The book is basically two different stories that are somewhat connected but don’t really feel so - and neither of them is good.
  
  The mystery in Molly’s part of the book is flimsy at best. Molly doesn’t really do anything but read her grandma’s diary and connect a few very obvious dots. She has also gone from an interesting neurodivergent character to a cheesy caricature of herself. I don’t get why the mother is there - she basically appears to remind us how horrible she is and to try and make the mystery seem more complicated and suspenseful than it really is. She fails, and she has no influence on the plot whatsoever.
  
  The other half - probably even more as the chapters in this part are longer - is Molly’s grandma Flora’s diary telling us about her past. And it’s boring. It’s kind of like a historical romance, except it can’t really be historical as it is set in a fictional place. We have a bunch of stereotypical plot lines and characters: woman wants to get educated in the era when it was hard for women to do so, despicable greedy rich people, a rich scumbag love interest vs a poor boy with a heart of gold, etc. These chapters dragged. They also barely developed Flora as a character and didn’t really show how she developed into the woman Molly knew. The diary is basically there to tell us where the egg came from and serve the clues to who stole it to Molly on a silver platter - it could have been so much shorter.
  
  I’m glad things work out well for Molly in the end as I still have some attachment to her as a character, mostly based on previous books, but the overwhelming heartwarminess of it doesn’t really feel earned, story-wise.
  
  Overall, it’s not entirely atrocious, just not good and a kind of disappointing addition to the series.
  

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