My first impression of the 1st chapter was "this is good, going straight into the murder scene". However, then the background scenes seemed to stretch out too much with a lot of characters and detail but it felt like I still didn't get any proper understanding of what's really going on. Then got a bit bored. Im not sure the 1920s or whatever decade it was as a themed party sounds fun or realistic either for 17 year olds. It will probably be quite a good read but i couldn't get into it today.