High Jinx
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4.3 • 35개의 평가
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- US$6.99
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Curse weaver Kennedy Bennett has re-settled into her beloved hometown and opened a shop selling previously hexed antiques. When she fails to win an online auction for a notorious cursed painting, Aiden Connolly—the wealthy and swoon-worthy luck worker she is not dating—swoops in to buy it for her.
Crying Girl is one of a quartet of haunted legendary paintings. Kennedy knows that the “ghosts” are actually curses—fatal ones. The paintings have been missing for years, and Kennedy is thrilled at the chance to uncurse one…until Crying Girl disappears before they can collect it.
Kennedy and Aiden soon discover that the painting hasn’t been randomly whisked out of their reach. Someone used it to lure them in, and now that they’ve snatched the bait, they’ve been snared in a trap. Either the thief gets what they want…or the four paintings are going to find their way back into the world, and Kennedy and Aiden will be responsible for the deadly chaos the cursed portraits wreak.
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Mystery, romance, and creepy paintings, plus interesting family dynamics (mortal and immortal)
I’m so glad to see more of Kennedy and Aiden, and I really hope that we’ll get more in this series. The book itself focuses on 2 central mysteries that end up becoming interwoven by the end, but it’s the way that we get to see a lot more of the characters that I really love. (I’m someone who’d happily read a collection of character studies, so long as they were well done.)
I really love how the first book in this series used the slow burn of Kennedy and Aiden’s romance as a way of teasing out Aiden’s personality. This time around, there’s still a fair bit of that, but the plot also functions as a way of drawing out a lot more depth and nuance for a number of characters. It does this for Aiden, Rian, and their mother, but also a few of the immortals. (Athene and Mercy are the main players for most of the narrative, but I actually felt I got the most insight into Hera and Hector.)
But for those of you who want plot with your character development, don’t worry - Armstrong definitely has that covered. :)