Helpful Score: 1
I wanted to like this book. I really did. Unfortunately, this was 274 pages of mix-n-match cozy cliches.
First, the author had a tough time narrowing down the focus for her new series. Cooking cozies! They sell, right? But .. several other cozy authors are going the bookstore route. Maybe that's it. But paranormal cozies are all the rage right now .... You get the picture.
With all these different "hooks" the book was a bit disjointed.
Add to that, a paranoid heroine who could win a gold medal if leaping to conclusions were an Olympic event, and a cast of supporting characters that were almost schizophrenic in their desire to see the lead character investigate-be safe-investigate-be safe ... it was enough to give me whiplash.
I don't think there was an honest, believable emotional response in the whole book. And I'd love to meet the police chief who let her/his mother steer the direction of a murder investigation with her hysterical, hateful rumor-mongering and gossiping.
First, the author had a tough time narrowing down the focus for her new series. Cooking cozies! They sell, right? But .. several other cozy authors are going the bookstore route. Maybe that's it. But paranormal cozies are all the rage right now .... You get the picture.
With all these different "hooks" the book was a bit disjointed.
Add to that, a paranoid heroine who could win a gold medal if leaping to conclusions were an Olympic event, and a cast of supporting characters that were almost schizophrenic in their desire to see the lead character investigate-be safe-investigate-be safe ... it was enough to give me whiplash.
I don't think there was an honest, believable emotional response in the whole book. And I'd love to meet the police chief who let her/his mother steer the direction of a murder investigation with her hysterical, hateful rumor-mongering and gossiping.
