REVIEW: Night Maze by Helen Harper

Night Maze by Helen Harper is the fourth book in the marvelous Cat Lady Chronicles.

First off, I am 100% totally a fan of the power of being underestimated, which makes me connect with Kit on a soul level. Her guise as a middle-aged cat lady is SO smooth, so perfectly constructed, that absolutely no one would ever suspect her of being anything else.

Until she is very much not. 😄

Second, I am absolutely loving the dynamic between Kit and Lady Penelope. Their friendship develops slowly and organically, layered in beautifully, and you can feel it building in a way that just works. Penelope's comment about the brightest colors in nature made me stop dead, put the book down, and just sit with it for a full minute before I could go on.

Favorite quote (zero judgment): "I could have happily gone an entire lifetime without invertebrate friends, but here we were." 😂 I mean. COME ON. That's hilarious.

The villain reveal absolutely blindsided me — and I mean that in the best possible way. He was the last person on my radar, just as he was on Kit's, and the way Harper set it up is genuinely clever. Well done!

This story is just exquisitely well written, it's practically in a class of its own. The plot grabs you by the collar from page one and flat-out refuses to let go, and you will not be putting this book down until the very last page. Because it is just that good.