What a sweet little novella to divulge into an aspect of the series that definitely couldn’t have anything larger attached to it. A Pressing Engagement by Anna Lee Huber is the novella set after A Study of Death which ties up some of the more relevant plot points from its predecessor. I’m not being sarcastic by the way, I truly believe the best way to tackle this wedding was to let it stand on its own, or at least how it’s framed here, to give it the attention it deserves without an overshadowing crime to unravel.

A Pressing Engagement is also the first ebook I have gotten out from the library so that was a wild ride of working out how to read it. There are a few things I need to change when I read another ebook but all in due time. It’s only a short 100 pages and includes just enough to weave a tale that is predominantly about the wedding plans, but also a few little side plots to break up that stuffy preparation content. I’m thankful for it’s size because I don’t think I could read something longer in the same amount of time I read a physical book. My eyes do not like locking in on a screen while reading and swiping to turn pages. Alas, that might just be a me thing.

I do appreciate the throw back to earlier books with the two “side quests”. It wrapped up loose threads in one instance and laid out some crumbs for potential future books, but we will have to wait and see about that. We’ve got characters coming back, though not as many as I would’ve liked, and another loop back to the other dialogue points from the previous book, A Study in Death. There’s something about Kiera and Sebastian’s conversations being repeated that grids my gears – even if we didn’t read these points in the previous book, it’s fairly obvious how Kiera is acting and what she really thinks and all that needed to be done was either one of them, or both, couldn’t talked to Alana about all the wedding prep and explained that they want something simpler. Kiera is an adult and it’s her wedding, she should’ve been able to talk to her sister about what she did and didn’t want included.

I can’t give this anymore than a 4/5 simply because it’s a basic novella with little plot and intrigue. It’s a cute, needed instalment to the series, but nothing special.