Hunting the Wren

As Bennet is completing his training as a master astrologer, his esteemed mentor dies leaving him a book spelling out predictions about what’s going to happen next in his life. Christa Wren comes into his life through a client who is murdered. She has no place to go and the establishment needs someone to help out with household duties. The two soon become a pair of sorts and end up in all sorts of intrigue related to the murder and to other occurrences in the town.

This turned out to be a pleasant enough read although there are parts that were a bit hard to fathom. I just don’t feel astrology at that time would have been so developed as to have such specific predictions. I guess you have to suspend disbelief and go with the fiction to accept it within this world. And thus this lands into the world of fantasy in my mind with a basis in historical fiction. There is a romance in the book and I guess that is kind of the point of this tale. Initially, Bennet had no intentions of marrying but the entrance of Christa into his world has the potential to change his mind on this point. The other point seems to be their ability to solve mysteries regarding murder and other crimes.

There is a mistake of sorts that Bennet makes along the way and I do like that this keeps him fallible and makes a more realistic human with an important role in the town.

Overall this had its charms and I give this 2.5 stars.

Thank you to Netgalley and BooksGoSocial for freely sharing an advanced reader copy. I voluntarily wrote this review.