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Thank you NetGalley and the publishers for this digital ARC

This review is only for the English translation of Volume 1 of Murderous Lewellyn's Candlelit Dinner

I did not know about this being already published and I went into this story expecting a mystery thriller as it was tagged as such. The mystery element is pretty low and most of the story revolves around 2 characters Shavonne, a broke ghost writer struggling to earn money and Lewellyn, possibly a serial killer who is obssessed with onions.

Now, most of my issue stems from not knowing this is a series leading to romance between these two characters and maybe we will get more backstory and reasons for the characters' behaviour in next volumes, based on what we have got here it was uncomfortable. This could be something that works for others who wouldn't mind weird dynamics and characters who ignore every red flag(view spoiler)[stalking and hindering someone's interview because of jealousy and some instance of gaslighting (hide spoiler)]. If this was only a thriller, i could see how the book successfully creates a creepy unlikeable character but volume 1 still fails to create a dynamic start to a series with most of it's settings all being on the apartment floor of the two characters.