Well, this was a fast read (to me) only a 4 sips and that was it. What to tell abou this...
In this story we follow Alessandra (the countess thief) as she is in her new quest to steal a mummy. Yeah.
After the first 40 or 50 pages this novel turns more mystery focus and only at some parts (very brief) it has something akin to Lovecraftian horror. I have to mention that the last 40 pages of the book are the real Lovecraftian lore (although a bit underachieve to be honest).
Of course there are mentions of the boardgames all over the place... be that be Silver Twilight Lodge; O'Bannon; same places in Arkham and several characters. The only one that really had any impact was Muldoon. (The police officer).
If you didn't play any kind of boardgames like Arkham Horror; Elder Sign, Eldritch Horror; New Arkham Horror 3edition; Arkham Horror LCG or Mansion of Madness (in all of these games the characters are the same - I cannot confirm in 100% for Mansion since it's the only one I didn't play) you will not be at lost. They don't focus heavily on those but give us hints to us that play like the beforementioned Muldoon; Harvey; Daisy Walker and small others that appear also in Lovecraft like Armitage.
It was not fast paced, bear in mind that this is more on board with Arkham Horror 3dition OR more LCG because Eldritch you go all over the world; Mansion of Madness it's always inside a mansion(or adjacents parts) and Elder Sign it's just a lite version with no plot. Just dice rolling.
Overall I enjoy it and will buy the next ones; to new people it would be a good read; but it's not the best lovecraftian horror story more... Whodunit? It's the term I believe for this..
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