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m3l89's review
3.0
I received a free copy of The Magic of Murder in exchange for an honest review.
Written in the first person from Emlyn’s point of view, in quite an informal relaxed style which seems to be popular at the moment, especially in American YA literature. Started off as a book within a book, with Emlyn writing a novel about Sarah witch, which leads Emlyn to a shop and opens the plot. The main plot about Emlyn was interspersed with sentences or short paragraphs about Sarah which were written in italics, and was almost as though we were reading them as Emlyn wrote them.
I found Emlyn to be quite irritating; she was scatty and chatty which I felt was probably supposed to be endearing but I found annoying. Despite this The Magic of Murder was well written and was very easy to read and follow.
Written in the first person from Emlyn’s point of view, in quite an informal relaxed style which seems to be popular at the moment, especially in American YA literature. Started off as a book within a book, with Emlyn writing a novel about Sarah witch, which leads Emlyn to a shop and opens the plot. The main plot about Emlyn was interspersed with sentences or short paragraphs about Sarah which were written in italics, and was almost as though we were reading them as Emlyn wrote them.
I found Emlyn to be quite irritating; she was scatty and chatty which I felt was probably supposed to be endearing but I found annoying. Despite this The Magic of Murder was well written and was very easy to read and follow.
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