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lakecake's review against another edition
3.0
I really like the characters and the setting of this series, but the mystery fell a little flat to me. There was no real connection to the titular postcards, that I could find anyway (but I wasn't feeling my best this weekend and maybe my slow brain just missed it). Still a pleasant read.
staticdisplay's review against another edition
3.0
Glory is very busy with the summer tourist rush. She starts a new friendship with a bank auditor, but her friend (Bridget) dies abruptly, and Glory's not convinced that it was an accidental OD.
I enjoy this series; the characters and their relationships are comforting, and some of that comes from repetition. there's very little mystery solving. Glory runs her business, runs some errands, makes a dinner, talks to her bird, thinks about getting an oil change... the end of the book felt rushed. there's a little bit of progress with Peter and with Jake. we learn a bit more about Sly's background and Uncle Louis.
I have to say it's not realistic for this tourist haven in Florida to be acting like drugs are someone else's problem. for one thing, the opioid epidemic? but it goes hand-in-hand with the characters' attitudes towards their relationships (moving at a glacial pace and quite prim). this one felt extra Cozy.
I enjoy this series; the characters and their relationships are comforting, and some of that comes from repetition. there's very little mystery solving. Glory runs her business, runs some errands, makes a dinner, talks to her bird, thinks about getting an oil change... the end of the book felt rushed. there's a little bit of progress with Peter and with Jake. we learn a bit more about Sly's background and Uncle Louis.
I have to say it's not realistic for this tourist haven in Florida to be acting like drugs are someone else's problem. for one thing, the opioid epidemic? but it goes hand-in-hand with the characters' attitudes towards their relationships (moving at a glacial pace and quite prim). this one felt extra Cozy.
bparker91's review against another edition
3.0
I rather enjoyed this 3rd installment of the Haunted Souvenir Shop Mystery series. Fifield seems to have finally rounded out her character development and more time is spent engrossed in the plot. The first two books in the series are much slower and more similar in pacing to her earlier Georgiana Neverall Mystery Series. Too bad she's just hitting her stride with only one book left in the series.
mystereity's review against another edition
3.0
Murder Sends A Postcard This is the 3rd Meh book in an enjoyable, but Meh series. There was a little more development in that you actually get to meet the victim before turning up dead, but again, the suspects are not well defined. There was also very little sleuthing done; instead, Glory again stumbles in on the bad guy and the crime is narrated to the reader rather than solved and all of this keeps me from connecting to the story.
Re-reading that, it makes the book sound horrible and it's really not. It's actually an enjoyable, quick read. I just wish the characters were developed more.
Glory also needs the parrot to shit on her head every time she misses an important clue that the bird gives her. Which brings me to my next point: the postcards. What was the point? Why were they hidden in random places in the store? No idea.
And at the end, we're treated to finding out about Jake's past, which is summed up in 5 words with no details. But we were treated to several pages of Glory's Thursday Night Dinner cop-out. Although the cookies (called Lunchroom Cookies in the book) are very good. We call them Boiled Oatmeal Cookies (I've also heard them called Top Of Stove Cookies and Peanut Butter Fudge No Bake Cookies) and her recipe is a little different from mine.
So overall, a nice, light read but just meh.
And FFS, what kind of 1950s Cabot Cove Cozy Town do these people live in? Is there some Draconian punishment if they spend the night together after knowing each other for a year? I don't even need details, I just need to know you're not all prudes.
Re-reading that, it makes the book sound horrible and it's really not. It's actually an enjoyable, quick read. I just wish the characters were developed more.
Glory also needs the parrot to shit on her head every time she misses an important clue that the bird gives her. Which brings me to my next point: the postcards. What was the point? Why were they hidden in random places in the store? No idea.
And at the end, we're treated to finding out about Jake's past, which is summed up in 5 words with no details. But we were treated to several pages of Glory's Thursday Night Dinner cop-out. Although the cookies (called Lunchroom Cookies in the book) are very good. We call them Boiled Oatmeal Cookies (I've also heard them called Top Of Stove Cookies and Peanut Butter Fudge No Bake Cookies) and her recipe is a little different from mine.
So overall, a nice, light read but just meh.
And FFS, what kind of 1950s Cabot Cove Cozy Town do these people live in? Is there some Draconian punishment if they spend the night together after knowing each other for a year? I don't even need details, I just need to know you're not all prudes.
murderbydeath's review
4.0
A fast, entertaining read, in a very solid cozy series.
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