Book Review

There’s a murderer on the loose, and there’s no time to lose! What will you do?

Find them, obviously!

Oxford Blood by Rachael Davis-Featherstone brings you a story where Eva, the main character, has to solve the murder of someone close to her on the Oxford campus. Nothing will stop her from finding the murderer… not the wrong detective, not the Oxford forums calling her a murderer, not even the suspicious guy in charge.

I was expecting a mystery, and it was a bit slow at the start, but then near the end, it actually started to improve. Then it all started to lose its excitement again as the story was revealed because the “twist” wasn’t really much of a twist in my opinion. The story reads more like a book the main character wrote about herself to seem interesting and like a hero. It took forever to get through the book, and there just wasn’t anything that made it super unique.

Most of the characters weren’t very likable, the only one that was actually pretty chill was the dad, since he was a character with a bunch of personality (even though he didn’t appear a bunch), and stood up for what was right, but wasn’t trying too hard. And Xander was okay. The detective was really frustrating, though, because she couldn’t get anything right and was so mean for no reason.

It is interesting how the author actually went to Oxford. That does give the book more meaning.

The ending was too clean, and almost everyone was forgiven, like one of those optimistic movies where there’s a super happy ending out of nowhere, which is just really unrealistic.

I’d give the story a 3.2 out of 5 bloody footprints. It wasn’t my cup of tea, but if there’s anyone out there who wants to read a murder mystery on an Oxford campus, then go right ahead and read this one.