🍸hokey pokey by kate mascarhenas🍸

thanks netgalley for an arc of this book which will be published 8th June 2023

🌟🌟🌟.5

a queer mystery/fantasy set in the 1920's which follows a psychoanalyst with a gift of perfect mimicry to a hotel where the guests become trapped by a snow storm. there's ghosts and monsters and an obsession with one of the guests as the mysteries unfold. this isn't my usual read but the author wrote one of my favourite books, the psychology of time travel, so I had to read this. I went in with mixed feelings because I didn't enjoy their other book the thief on the winged horse, but I enjoyed this more. I really really recommend the psychology of time travel if you're into queer space books!

I thought this was a pretty decent read, the authors very good at setting an atmosphere which really made reading it fun.. The ending wasn't to my taste but was overall a fun read.

This was a weird ride. I had no idea where this story was going and usually I'm pretty good at guessing. The first part was predictable but then it just got weirder, I'm not quite sure if it was good weird or just weird weird. The backstory of the main character was written very good and I would have loved a story about her past more. The stroytelling was good.

Very interesting read, I loved the characters and the plot, It had me guessing what would happen next. A great read.

Hokey Pokey is about a woman that is stuck in a hotel and she is on a mission. There is mystery and fantasy combined in a historical fiction and it even has it's own cocktail recipe!

That's a really short description of what this book actually is. There are parts where I wasn't able to put it down, most of it however didn't spark my interest and I really had to make myself read this book just so I could finish it and move on from it. I would say I enjoyed about 30% of it. There are parts that drag on for pages and pages and there are parts where an enormous event happens that are described in just half a sentence.
I'm not sure if I would recommend this book to a friend. But I am interested in the drink that's mentioned in the book.