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Hello everyone! Welcome to the Book Nook. Today we are going to be doing a review on The Last Drop of Hemlock by Katherine Schellman. This is the second book to the duology, Last Call at the Nightingale. You can read my review here. This review is not going to be too long because I don’t have too many things to say about this book. I will say I found it to be better than the previous installment. Before we get started, I encourage you all to comment down below and tell me your thoughts. Also, make sure you are following the Book Nook on WordPress, Instagram and YouTube; that way you don’t miss any of my reviews in the future. So, without further ado, lets get into it.

Once again, we are following Vivian Kelly who is now an employee at the Nightingale; an illegal club being run during the Prohibition Era. Vivian’s best friend, Bea, loses her uncle to what police think is a suicide, however, Bea doesn’t believe it for one second. Pearlie was happy and apparently coming into some money soon. So why would he take his own life? Immediately, Vivian starts to investigate. She soon finds out there is a blackmailer in town robbing poor people of their possessions. Do the thefts have anything to do with Pearlie’s death or is there a more sinister plot at play? Either way, Vivian won’t rest until she gets to the truth. Even if that means getting hurt in the process.

I do like how the book gets right to the point. Within the first few pages, the incident with Pearlie has already happened and Vivian starts to investigate. I mentioned in my last review that there is some queer representation between Vivian and another character but it wasn’t believable to me. In this book we do get more interactions/progression between those two. But I’m still not 100% convinced.

Based on the ending I believe there will be another book and there is! It’s called The Last Note of Warning which is set to come out in June of this year. I will definitely be giving that a read. But anyway, although I didn’t see the ending coming entirely I did think that that one character was a bit suspicious. And based off the ending, I will give this book a slightly higher rating. In my opinion, it was better than the previous read.

In conclusion, the pacing was good and the plot was decent. Although I’m still not fully convinced of Vivian’s relationship with another character, I do like the progression and I hope to see more of it in the next book.

Overall, I give it a 3.5/5.

Until next time!