461 reviews for:

Murder at The Bookstore

Sue Minix

2.94 AVERAGE

viking_bookworm's review against another edition

3.0

challenging dark emotional mysterious fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

borgz's review against another edition

4.0

---

3.5 rounded up. The plot was interesting and despite what many others have said, I liked Jen as a character. Some of the writing was a bit cringe, most of the cultural references were just silly or extremely specific, and the killer was a little predictable but I still enjoyed it. I think I would be interested to continue the series.

tanyapickles's review against another edition

3.0

medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

barrosj2896's review against another edition

3.25

lighthearted mysterious medium-paced

sjb448's review against another edition

3.5

medium-paced

izildir13's review against another edition

3.0

lighthearted fast-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

elenathefirst's review against another edition

3.0

mysterious medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

---

I didn't really like the main character, she is very annoying.

demi_binnema's review against another edition

2.5

slow-paced

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

dieuwke99's review against another edition

2.0

medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

---

This was…not good. There were so many problems with this book, I don’t even know where to start. The main character is an author who’s struggling with writer’s block. Nothing wrong with that. She tries many things to solve it, while trying to solve a real murder as well. The book includes bits of what she’s writing, and let’s just say, I get why she’s struggling. 

Besides constantly complaining about everything, Jen’s obnoxious and whiny and has the tendency to make stupid decisions all the time. Decisions that don’t even make sense. The plot is all over the place, includes so many things that are just not relevant to the story and it’s very clear from the start who the murderer is. Most of the dialogue comes out of the blue and oftentimes I could not figure out where it was going and why the hell they were discussing what they were discussing. 

I have a whiplash from how often this woman switches from arguing with someone and making up with them on the same frigging page, and everything, and I mean EVERYTHING, has to have a reason. Trying to solve writer’s block? Try running. Running not going well? Well, it’s because of your bad posture. Get some tips for your posture? Yes but also overanalyse WHY you have bad posture. And don’t get me started on the completely unnecessary references to a troubled childhood that has absolutely NOTHING to do with the story and just makes it even more all over the place. In short, would not recommend.

beautiful_lie's review against another edition

3.0

mysterious medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

---

Typical cozy mystery. It was cozy. It was mysterious. It was predictable. Twas fine.