Mary J. (jeweledturtle) - reviewed on 8/2/2011 + 12 more book reviews

Helpful Score: 3

I was pretty excited for this book. The premise sounded really fun, a fortune teller mystery! The book starts off with a bang, the heroine leaves her parents penthouse, and under their thumb, at 29. She promptly buys up an old Victorian house (and cat) with her trust fund and sets up shop in Divinity, NY. Her first customer is a librarian and upon reading her tea leaves, sees her death.

The story went exceedingly down hill from there, Sunny (heroine) tells the police (square jawed love interest) about the murder an hour after the librarian leaves, she is arrested and let go... no one could see her killing anyone??! She drops in the town bar, gets drunk and has the big cop carry her home. A day later she's "partnered" up with him by the chief and can't seem to break a nasty habit of diarrhea-of-the-mouth through a flurry of clue-rich interviews.

I stopped reading half way though with Sunny stuck in a closet listening to some potential murderers get it on to blasting porn, she was talking to the cop fellow on her cell phone. Ugh.

The book just flew all over the place without consistent tense or tangent. The characters were flat and/or blown out of proportion. And while I don't mind subject matter in a "cozy mystery" being more PG-13+ it was unexpected in this and felt thrown in. I won't be finishing the book. It was poorly written.

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