A review by olivia_godfrey
A Spy in the House by Y.S. Lee

3.0

This was entertaining and interesting for the most part but really only surface level for me.

I enjoyed the “heist” feeling and I’ve gotta find out what’s going on, I wasn’t expecting some twists and the ending! A good mystery for a rainy day.

However.
The writing and overall story building was pretty good, but Mary was kinda… flat. Then some things didn’t really make sense(Mary was a companion that wasn’t hardly in her employer’s company?) and there were a few things that were kinda randomly inserted in. Also, it jumped from her childhood to her getting a job awful fast, I would’ve liked more about her training. The love interest was just kind of… there… they were supposed to work together but really didn’t. I didn’t appreciate the strong negative views of marriage. I also was hoping for some issues to be/at least feel resolved with some things she discovered about her past but that was disappointing when it didn’t hardly get addressed at all in the end(and it did kinda seem a big deal? Like… what?)
There’s some scattered language and innuendos. Violence but not graphic.

I liked it alright but not really interested in the rest of the series(: