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Finlay Donovan Series: Reviews Book 1 and 2

✨spoilers ahead✨#lemon8bookclub

Book 1: 5/5

This was my first comedic mystery I’ve read and I really enjoyed it! I am happy there are more to read so I can keep letting finlay stress me out. She had my anxiety up the entire book leaving her fingerprints everywhere. I don’t know how she how got out of this with out going to jail

Book 2: 4/5

I didn’t like this one as much as I liked the first one but I do enjoy the comedic parts of the story. I am interested in seeing and learning more about Vero. Hopefully we do in the next book! Also… she should have just let Steven die since he was being hard headed

I definitely plan on reading the entire series

2025/4/30 Edited to

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