Review : Spectacle

Spectacle by Jodie Lynn Zdrok

Genre: Historical Fiction, Mystery, Young Adult, Fantasy,

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Pages: 368

Published February 12th 2019 by Tor Teen

A YA murder mystery in which a young reporter must use her supernatural visions to help track down a killer targeting the young women of Paris.

Paris, 1887.

Sixteen- -old Nathalie Baudin writes the daily morgue column for Le Petit Journal. Her job is to summarize each day's new arrivals, a task she finds both fascinating and routine. That is, until the day she has a vision of the newest body, a young woman, being murdered--from the perspective of the murderer himself.

When the body of another woman is retrieved from the Seine days later, Paris begins to buzz with rumors that this victim may not be the last. Nathalie's search for answers sends her down a long, twisty road involving her mentally ill aunt, a brilliant but deluded scientist, and eventually into the Parisian Catacombs. As the killer continues to haunt the streets of Paris, it becomes clear that Nathalie's strange new ability may make her the only one who can discover the killer's identity--and she'll have to do it before she becomes a target herself.

So I haven't read a historical fiction book in a bit I usually have a hard time following along and have a hard time connecting to this but from the very start this book had gotten me intrigued that I just wanted to know more about it. I am a fan of mystery novels which could be why it was easier to get sucked into and this book was a pretty good gruesome at times mystery book. What I did find refreshing is that it didn't include a romance at all, I'm so used to reading romance or mystery / romantic suspense novels that are heavy on the romance in between solving crimes and this book did not need that all. I really enjoyed reading this book, I read it as a ARC ebook but I'm going to have to have a physical copy of this book to add to my library so I can share it with others who might enjoy and get to reread it again because it really is a good book.