(Although I do wonder why nobody thought ‘huh, that’s weird’ when he happily allowed two teenage girls to stay with him. Finding out about the Store Manager and his own storyline kept me from getting bored by the actual cases. I felt like I’d been plonked right into the middle of their lives, as though they were going about their business before I arrived. You’ve got a kid hacker on the run, a legal consultant, and a freelance detective helping out. What saves it from being too familiar is the underlying story involving the mysterious Store Manager and his friends. If you can destroy that symbol/do that ritual/avoid all those tentacles then you’ll probably be fine. There are going to be cults involved somehow. The problem is once you’ve read, played, or experienced Lovecraft many times over the years, you’ll always know what the solution to the case is going to be. Being super familiar with Lovecraftian mysteries meant that I didn’t find it as compelling as I may have done otherwise. This, however, was part of the problem for me. Each case has a different underlying story, a format I am very comfortable with as a former Cthulhu roleplayer. A teenage girl having strange visions comes to Hermitage bookstore seeking answers, and the Store Manager gets swept along for the ride. I’ll say first that the story started off really promising.
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