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🤰🏼🍼BOOK REVIEW🍼🤰🏼

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Title: The Expectant Detectives
Author: Kat Ailes
Pub date: January 9, 2024

🍼Thank you so much to Minotaur Books for the ARC and to Macmillan Audio for the audiobook!

🍼I’ll start by saying that the cover and title are absolutely adorable! What doesn’t sound fun about a group of ladies that meet in their pregnancy class and then find a dead body? (in a book, in real life that would be less fun LOL) They would naturally take it into their own hands to solve the murder! I’m all about books with amateur sleuths and cozy mysteries and was so excited for this one!

🍼As a mom of two, I had hoped this one would be funny and relatable!

🍼While some parts were fun and witty, I struggled to really get into the murder mystery plot and wish that it was focused more on that and less on…all of the other stuff…and there was a lot of other stuff. I think it could have been about 20% shorter and then it would have packed more of a punch instead of lulling on.

🍼The ending was redeeming enough and there were a few moments that were very interesting, but overall, I struggled to care what happened to the characters.

🍼If this sounds like something you’d enjoy, you should definitely read it!

🍼I still plan to read book 2 when it comes out!