This was a fun little cozy fall murder mystery that I happened to read at the totally wrong time of year.  This was my first Adrienne Young book and I really loved the way she described settings and atmosphere. I wanna cuddle up in a cabin in a rainy forest so so bad. I liked our cast of characters and I really liked the super subtle magical realism aspect. 

I think I would describe this book as "absolutely fine" and would definitely recommend it as a fall read; I don't have any rating-destroying gripes with it. I thought the plot twists and reveals were a little boring, and I found the romance between our two protagonists to be a little bland. Second-chance romance is fine by me but they seem to not have grown as people at all in the 14 years since they were together, so the believability was a little lost on me in that regard. Most of the characters, in fact, were pretty flat and didn't really grow or change over the course of the novel, but again, I had a good time so I guess I don't really care.