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3.4 AVERAGE
3.4 AVERAGE
funny
lighthearted
mysterious
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
lighthearted
mysterious
medium-paced
How is Hannah able to live off of just the income she makes from her store that only sells cookies and coffee? This includes any bills for the store itself, quality ingredients, paying for a full-time employee, bills for her condo, and any other amenities. In a town where the population is approximately 3,000. Also, who is having cookies for breakfast AND lunch?
Why is Hannah doing all the detective work and not her brother-in-law? What is her brother-in-law even doing this entire time? Not to mention that Hannah basically breaks the law at certain points doing her investigations, which in reality would make any evidence she found would be inadmissible. Are we not gonna talk about how she just removes or tampers with things that could be very important, but she just decides isn't? Or how, instead of calling her brother-in-law with information and letting him do his job, she takes it upon herself to just do it for him? What is compelling this woman to just break into crime scenes?
Hannah is also the most silver tongued devil, because she just pulls lie after lie out of thin air and everyone just accepts it.
Not even going to touch on the fat phobia, domestic violence, racism, and other very dated language.
The book was just one of those cooking websites where you have to scroll past the author's life story before you can get the recipe.
Why is Hannah doing all the detective work and not her brother-in-law? What is her brother-in-law even doing this entire time? Not to mention that Hannah basically breaks the law at certain points doing her investigations, which in reality would make any evidence she found would be inadmissible. Are we not gonna talk about how she just removes or tampers with things that could be very important, but she just decides isn't? Or how, instead of calling her brother-in-law with information and letting him do his job, she takes it upon herself to just do it for him? What is compelling this woman to just break into crime scenes?
Hannah is also the most silver tongued devil, because she just pulls lie after lie out of thin air and everyone just accepts it.
Not even going to touch on the fat phobia, domestic violence, racism, and other very dated language.
The book was just one of those cooking websites where you have to scroll past the author's life story before you can get the recipe.
The fat phobia was a jump scare. Like I know it’s an early 2000s book but it’s a murder mystery! I was giving it 3 stars before that because it was pretty boring and I didn’t really like the characters but I did finish it.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Fatphobia
fast-paced
Fun lil read. It's like watching Gilmore girls and hating Rory. (Main character is a lil annoying but that's kind of part of the fun).
funny
lighthearted
It was OK. Nothing special and the characters and authorial voice annoyed me quite a bit. It started well but lost its appeal as it went on. I would not recommend this for a cosy mystery – I think there are better books out there.
I started reading this series with the 18th one, and this is amazing in comparison. I enjoyed reading it, and I can now see how this was a popular series.
funny
lighthearted
mysterious
slow-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
lighthearted
mysterious