I like that you have to tap and shake it and stuff

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Words: 25,711 (unfinished). It was fun to read. It was ok.

The cover of this book hooked me right away with the moon necklace dipped in blood and used to create the With Murder part of the title. Very intriguing. It had a good strong start with how Lauren was secretly hooking up with Robbie and then the disastrous stay with him at his house on Lake Monarch and finding the bloody top that had belonged to his dead girlfriend. It also nicely teased that Lauren had some dark secrets herself. That kept me reading the book as it continued with Lauren's investigation, her being shunned by the soccer team, and then another dead teen to muddy the waters. It had me guessing a lot of who the killer was cause there were a lot of suspects and that person seemed on top of things with threats, stolen evidence and misleading confessions. So that made it all good and tense to see how many others would wind up dead before the killer was caught. I liked it all up till the end when the supposedly cany killer makes a stupid mistake in not covering their tracks and then the reason why they killed those girls in the first place was odd and didn't really fit with the rest of the story. So, one star off for that.

Very cute and I loved to learn about the history of Italy and about their culture.

4.5

This was an awesome twist to the Goose Girl fairy tale! Some of the same features, geese, a white horse named Falada, and a girl trapped by, in this one her mother and not a handmaid but similar circumstances. So, yes, those elements but then thrown in a blender and add more magic, creepy familiars, murder, and a group of people trying to stop the sorceress Evangeline and it is a fresh and wonderful story that I enjoyed very much. I would definitely say that it is a bit darker of a fairy tale than the original (though that one also had dark bits) as Evangeline kills or destroys anyone that gets in her way to power and riches. Luckily Cordelia finds help when her mother sets her eyes on Samuel (a Squire) who has a sister with a bit of an uncanny sense for Doom. Hester is a very likable character and her friends are up for the challenge, even when it ends up with a woman going over the balcony to her death and a headless horse running around and spells for obedience. I have read several T. Kingfisher books now and I have really enjoyed them, especially the ones that are fresh takes on fairy tales. This one actually might be my favorite though I also really enjoyed Nettle and Bone.

We loved it!

This was the best book in the world.

A little silly.