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sofia_santana's review
funny
relaxing
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.0
madsmcw_reads's review against another edition
I felt so so about the first book in the series, I liked the mystery but wasn't sold on the characters. After starting the second one I think I'm done trying. The main character is just off-putting for me. I can't really put my finger on it but she just rubs me the wrong way.
kimlb's review against another edition
5.0
If you like humor with your cozy mystery this series is for you!
bikes_books_yarn's review against another edition
3.0
Well written but the plot was a little lacking.
git_r_read's review against another edition
3.0
Not one of my favorite reads this year. I didn't care very much about the characters other than the slight eye rolling at how every single hot guy was attracted to the main character. The scenes didn't flow very well and some dialogue felt a bit stilted.
I'll go back to the first in the series to see if that helps.
I'll go back to the first in the series to see if that helps.
impybelle's review against another edition
2.0
Mums had it home from the library and I ran out of books so I gave it a whirl. It starts out interestingly enough (Country star comes to town, our heroine schemes her way into becoming his personal chef while he's visiting) but the story never managed to gel for me. I didn't particularly care for anyone enough to want to keep reading after awhile, but I hate to start a book and not finish. I will say that I liked the answer to the whodunnit.
I just don't think you get to send two people to jail and then say something like, "Finally, all the pieces of the puzzle were beginning to fit." Um, no. You send your daughter's best friend straight to the police and the puzzle pieces should have been firmly soaked in superglue. (That detour/delay in the solving of the mystery was actually painfully not well thought out and fell apart the moment you looked at it.)
I just don't think you get to send two people to jail and then say something like, "Finally, all the pieces of the puzzle were beginning to fit." Um, no. You send your daughter's best friend straight to the police and the puzzle pieces should have been firmly soaked in superglue. (That detour/delay in the solving of the mystery was actually painfully not well thought out and fell apart the moment you looked at it.)
asanford's review against another edition
3.0
I liked this one better than the first one. It was entertaining, funny, and a good mystery.
chuckdolton's review against another edition
3.0
Ha Ha Didn't find out who the killer was till the end, so that was a good thing.
cheryl6of8's review against another edition
2.0
This only gets 2 stars because the who-actually-done-it-part kept me guessing. It was awful as far as characters and I needed to finish it to complete a category for a challenge -- that and my stubbornness are why I finished it.
I don't know the main character -- if she were more like her newspaper column, I might have grown to like her. She isn't and I didn't. But page 2 was too soon in the book for her to start doing eye-rolling-ly dumb stuff because I didn't care. And she didn't really improve. Her friends were uninteresting -- Liddy, obsessed with one diamond earring, and Mona, who doesn't know how many children she has or what seems to be the source of them. And the authors of this book clearly do not like country music, so they should not have made one of the primary stars of this book a country singer. I do like country music and I was insulted by all of the overdone cliches.
I kept complaining about this book as I read it and my family said it would be like a certain friend's husband and I would be stuck for life with it. I showed them. I finished it. No more country-fried rednecks for me!!
I don't know the main character -- if she were more like her newspaper column, I might have grown to like her. She isn't and I didn't. But page 2 was too soon in the book for her to start doing eye-rolling-ly dumb stuff because I didn't care. And she didn't really improve. Her friends were uninteresting -- Liddy, obsessed with one diamond earring, and Mona, who doesn't know how many children she has or what seems to be the source of them. And the authors of this book clearly do not like country music, so they should not have made one of the primary stars of this book a country singer. I do like country music and I was insulted by all of the overdone cliches.
I kept complaining about this book as I read it and my family said it would be like a certain friend's husband and I would be stuck for life with it. I showed them. I finished it. No more country-fried rednecks for me!!