A review by doloresofcourse
Bright and Deadly Things by Lexie Elliott

3.0

I just closed the cover of this book. I guess I will give it a three. I don’t recommend you spend your time reading 364 pages of it. It tried to combine three different genres and falls short on all of them. There’s a sort of espionage genre, a murder mystery genre, and a supernatural genre with a cursed clock combined with the promise of a “Then There Were None” trope. No spoilers, that’s all called out on the dust jacket. The author needed to pick a genre and go with it. I probably would have enjoyed a book focusing on a murder mystery or a cursed clock putting the whammy on people. This just wasn’t a cohesive story.