A review by tessisreading2
Just Make Believe by Maggie Robinson

2.0

I was really saddened by how much this didn't work for me. I skipped the second book in the series but none of the interpersonal relationships had really advanced beyond that book - Addie and Dev are in the same holding pattern, Addie and Rupert ditto - and the pacing was... really awkward; we see Addie meet with Dev and then double back so we can have a few pages of her making the decision to meet with Dev, e.g. The mystery isn't so much solved as the book reaches the end. The villain Confesses All at the end for no apparent reason. The 1920s references seem shoehorned in and there are occasionally grating Americanisms/modernisms. The first book was so great, but this one was just... more of the same, done less well.