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3.67 AVERAGE
3.67 AVERAGE
I'm glad I finished this one but I nearly didn't. It's probably a stylistic choice, but when you're 100 pages from the end of a mystery and the main character is saying "back at square one" you begin to wonder what we're all doing here.
Amory and Milo are holidaying in Italy, Milo is being his usual daredevil self and has taken up flying with his new friend Andre Duveau. Then he receives a disturbing letter from his former nanny, Madame Nanette, her new employer, Helios Belanger, has recently died of a heart attack only days after surviving a plane crash. Not only that, the formula for his new perfume has gone missing just days before the big launch party.
Mr Belanger was the founder of the Belanger perfume business and was on the verge of launching a new fragrance. He is survived by three children, Anton the eldest who has the business brains, Cecile the middle child who inherited her father's skills with perfume, and Michel the wayward youngest child, always getting into trouble with married women, drinking and gambling. Of course Michel and Milo know each other, they've hung about together before! Helios had also married a much younger woman and they had a young daughter together.
Can Amory and Milo uncover the truth about Helios' death and find the missing formula?
This is book 4 in the series and Milo and Amory's marriage is still on a see-saw. It seems like every book starts with them being blissfully happy and then Milo starts going out and comes back at 4 am reeking of alcohol, smoke and stale perfume. He is evasive and refuses to give Amory straight answers about what he's doing , which always turns out to be totally innocent and related to the mystery. At this stage I feel it's getting a bit rinse and repeat, especially since it seems that Milo does more of the real detective work than Amory - or is it just that he always uncovers the clue that finds the murderer?
Final gripe, and I'll try to be non-spoilery, Amory totally hits the TSTL button in the final chapters, just totally stupid behaviour.
I still enjoyed reading this and I will read the rest of the books in the series but I am starting to feel that these are becoming a bit formulaic.
Mr Belanger was the founder of the Belanger perfume business and was on the verge of launching a new fragrance. He is survived by three children, Anton the eldest who has the business brains, Cecile the middle child who inherited her father's skills with perfume, and Michel the wayward youngest child, always getting into trouble with married women, drinking and gambling. Of course Michel and Milo know each other, they've hung about together before! Helios had also married a much younger woman and they had a young daughter together.
Can Amory and Milo uncover the truth about Helios' death and find the missing formula?
This is book 4 in the series and Milo and Amory's marriage is still on a see-saw. It seems like every book starts with them being blissfully happy and then Milo starts going out and comes back at 4 am reeking of alcohol, smoke and stale perfume. He is evasive and refuses to give Amory straight answers about what he's doing , which always turns out to be totally innocent and related to the mystery. At this stage I feel it's getting a bit rinse and repeat, especially since it seems that Milo does more of the real detective work than Amory - or is it just that he always uncovers the clue that finds the murderer?
Final gripe, and I'll try to be non-spoilery, Amory totally hits the TSTL button in the final chapters, just totally stupid behaviour.
I still enjoyed reading this and I will read the rest of the books in the series but I am starting to feel that these are becoming a bit formulaic.
lighthearted
mysterious
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
This was a fun audiobook and I found the perfume angle quite interesting. But there was too much reflecting on what we had learned and not enough going on.
Literally SUCH an entertaining book! Interesting character with a giant plot twist at the end
adventurous
lighthearted
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Loveable characters:
Yes
adventurous
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
Strong setting and great plot twists within the mysterious world of perfume.
Amory Ames and her too-handsome-for-his-own-good husband have been on vacation in Italy but decide to stop in Paris on their way home. Once again, Amory's husband is mysterious. It turns out his former nanny has called him in to help solve the death of her employer, famed perfumier Helios Belanger. As always in the Amory Ames mysteries, there are layers to the story with the Ames' neighbor in Italy being a former fiance of Helios' daughter. She and his two sons all have stories that make each of them suspicious.
Also redundant in the Ames' mysteries are Amory's push-me-pull-me feelings toward her husband and his refusal to tell her anything of use. She's over his partyboy ways and couldn't care less except that they drive her nuts so she really could less. I really hope Ms. Weaver stops hinting around about Milo soon and makes he and Amory true partners.
Also redundant in the Ames' mysteries are Amory's push-me-pull-me feelings toward her husband and his refusal to tell her anything of use. She's over his partyboy ways and couldn't care less except that they drive her nuts so she really could less. I really hope Ms. Weaver stops hinting around about Milo soon and makes he and Amory true partners.
Another entry in this series that I completely enjoyed. I rarely read a series all at once, but I'm moving directly on to book 5!