“I was first drawn to this book at the library because of the cover and the cute illustration. I really thought it would be a book I would love. Cute, girl heroine, mystery, set in the early 1900s but I ended up not liking it at all. I think my main complaint is of the title character, Petronella, the heroine of the story. I found her a snobby, TOO lovestruck, annoying, flat, boring character. After that all I could think about while reading it were all the things I didn't like. The plot was difficult to follow, the Victorian language a bit over the top, and it never really gets interesting. It just drags on until the lackluster ending when the mystery is solved. This is a series and the other has two more books coming out but I won't be reading them.”
