Title: The Medusa Murders

Author: Joy Ann Ribar

Genre: Mystery

Format: eARC

Series: Bay Browning (#1)

Star Rating: 2 stars

I’m going to come right out and say it: This was not a good book at all. The murder mystery was incredibly confusing, the main character was insufferable, and the writing was very clunky. Let me explain more. 

Let’s start with the plot. It’s a murder mystery, so the main character is working with the police to find a serial killer. Sounds easy enough, right? No, it wasn’t easy. The whole plot mixed Egyptian mythology with Roman/Greek mythology. You were also expected to know pretty obscure paintings. The connection between the murderer and the main character was just so weird. I was confused the entire time. 

Speaking of the main character, Bay, she was one of the most pretentious characters ever. Not to mention she was a straight-up b word. She forced her sister, who had some trouble with addiction, to call her Professor even though her sister was trying incredibly hard to be a better person. She was so rude to the detective working the case. She demanded to help solve it but was pretty unhelpful most of the time. Bay was just awful in the worst kind of way. 

Now onto the writing. This book was just not written well at all. The dialogue tags were so weird. There were things like “she said demurely” That’s so weird. There was also weird sentence structure like “of course, he’d slept precious little since the discovery” That just rolls off the tongue weird. The whole book was filled with things like that. 

Overall, this just wasn't a good book. It needs some serious editing and fine-tuning. The main character was horrible and disrespectful. The plot was so confusing and it made no sense. Overall, I don’t recommend this book at all.