A review by ashleylm
Clouds of Witness by Dorothy L. Sayers
4.0
This will not be to everyone's tastes, but it is to mine. It's very period, but it's refreshingly alive, in the sense that you imagine this must have felt awfully modern and genuine at the time it was written. Wimsey, at this point, is young, rich, a bit of a jet-setter (before that was a thing), and deucedly delightful. The mystery elements themselves won't set the world on fire, but when you like the characters enough none of that matters--I'd rather read about people I enjoy simply having conversations, then some wham-bam-action-packed epic about dull characters hitting things.
If you happen upon it and find it weirdly compelling but not quite enough, feel free to set it down and skip ahead to Strong Poison, the sixth in the series but the first (I think) with Harriet Vane. If that one doesn't work for you, then you're dead to me!
(Note: 5 stars = amazing, wonderful, 4 = very good book, 3 = decent read, 2 = disappointing, 1 = awful, just awful. I'm fairly good at picking for myself so end up with a lot of 4s).
If you happen upon it and find it weirdly compelling but not quite enough, feel free to set it down and skip ahead to Strong Poison, the sixth in the series but the first (I think) with Harriet Vane. If that one doesn't work for you, then you're dead to me!
(Note: 5 stars = amazing, wonderful, 4 = very good book, 3 = decent read, 2 = disappointing, 1 = awful, just awful. I'm fairly good at picking for myself so end up with a lot of 4s).