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3.26 AVERAGE
3.26 AVERAGE
hopeful
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
The love triangle went on for way too long, and for what? This was very unsatisfying and stupid.
funny
lighthearted
mysterious
fast-paced
This is a cute story, but it is not very difficult to solve the mysteries. I liked all the recipes sprinkled throughout the book. Light mystery series.
After seventeen books of the Hannah-Norman-Mike love triangle, book eighteen finally provides closure! The winner is, drum roll please,
The three proposals at the end seemed a bit aggravating, like I said, we already had the Mike/Norman proposal and there's no way that two handsome, intelligent, young men like them would just wait around, hoping Hannah will eventually agree to marry one of them, but I'm glad that we found out whose Hannah was going to accept... At least this book, unlike the last one, had a sorta ending.
The murder in this book seems a bit secondary and the way Hannah's homicide charges from the last book however after a decade and a half of Hannah Swenson murders I am just reading for the character "development" (Hannah didn't go around correcting people's grammar, over explaining things, and actually got a smart phone in this book, though she did seem a bit mature/elderly for a lady in her early-thirties).
This is a quick fluff read, I finished it in a day, that's a bit repetitive and overall mediocre (I'd probably rate it 2 1/2 stars, not 3, if I could). It isn't as bad as some of the past books and actually redeemed the series for me, though I do hope it ends soon, maybe after book twenty? In the next book we can have and in book twenty, which would be a nice place to end the series, we can have
Spoiler
Ross?! Hannah's college boyfriend, who she reconnected with after he came to Lake Eden to film a movie a dozen or so books ago, is Doc Knight's best man at his and Delores' Vegas wedding. Ross and Hannah reconnect and start a relationship, which, at first I was hesitant about. She already had two "boyfriends" and I didn't have any interest in Ms. Fluke adding another man as a feeble attempt to drag the plot line, that should have ended after Mike and Norman both proposed and she turned both of them down, despite this (perhaps I was just pleasantly surprised that Hannah was less prudish then usual, I remember how in one book she found hand holding in public scandalous) I actually think Ross and Hannah have a cute, if not a bit cheesy, relationship.The three proposals at the end seemed a bit aggravating, like I said, we already had the Mike/Norman proposal and there's no way that two handsome, intelligent, young men like them would just wait around, hoping Hannah will eventually agree to marry one of them, but I'm glad that we found out whose Hannah was going to accept... At least this book, unlike the last one, had a sorta ending.
The murder in this book seems a bit secondary and the way Hannah's homicide charges from the last book
Spoiler
were dropped appeared blatantly lazy,This is a quick fluff read, I finished it in a day, that's a bit repetitive and overall mediocre (I'd probably rate it 2 1/2 stars, not 3, if I could). It isn't as bad as some of the past books and actually redeemed the series for me, though I do hope it ends soon, maybe after book twenty? In the next book we can have
Spoiler
Hannah and Ross's wedding (Ms. Fluke, PLEASE, PLEASE don't have Hannah back out or Ross decide that the proposal was rash, PLEASE go through with the wedding, I want to read closure and quite frankly I'm indifferent to which man Hannah settles down with, as long as the love triangle stops)Spoiler
Hannah and Ross have children... On the topic of children, Lisa's married and would make a great mother, *wink, wink, nudge, nudge*.
can’t believe it’s taken 18 books for Hannah to FINALLY choose who she wants to marry………and it’s some rando from an earlier book??? if anyone has received 3 marriage proposals in one day, LMK.
lighthearted
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:
Yes
I'm happy that Hannah is finally in love. I just wish there had been more of a mystery to this book.
More a 2.5. The storyline is shoehorned around recipes and I'm not sure when Hannah changed from being a grammar enthusiast to a trivia fanatic
Double Fudge Brownie Murder by Joanne Fluke
Love the Hannah Swansen series. In this one the girls all travel to Las Vegas where Doc Knight has set up all the arrangement for the wedding of Delores.
A surprise best man also shows up and Hannah and he rekindle their love for one another since their college days. Delores heads out to a cruise to Alaska with Doc.
Girls travel back to Eden and Hannah shows up at the courthouse to tell the judge what happened the night she ran into a person along the side of the road and he died.
Problem is the judge is killed and she learns later of her outcome with the case. Many meals with Norman and Cuddles and Mike and other family members. She investigates by asking others about different aspects of the judge's life.
Love all the new recipes to try, especially the baked donuts! Ross shows up in town and the girls fear with Mike and Norman and Ross that a fight will break out....love learning new things about produce.
Love that she gives you cookies made with ketchup or other weird combination and that you too can experiment with your own likes to create your own. I create a new one each year myself, love the ability of one's imagination. Cats are always up to mischief as in this book...
I received this book from The Kennsington Books in exchange for my honest review
Love the Hannah Swansen series. In this one the girls all travel to Las Vegas where Doc Knight has set up all the arrangement for the wedding of Delores.
A surprise best man also shows up and Hannah and he rekindle their love for one another since their college days. Delores heads out to a cruise to Alaska with Doc.
Girls travel back to Eden and Hannah shows up at the courthouse to tell the judge what happened the night she ran into a person along the side of the road and he died.
Problem is the judge is killed and she learns later of her outcome with the case. Many meals with Norman and Cuddles and Mike and other family members. She investigates by asking others about different aspects of the judge's life.
Love all the new recipes to try, especially the baked donuts! Ross shows up in town and the girls fear with Mike and Norman and Ross that a fight will break out....love learning new things about produce.
Love that she gives you cookies made with ketchup or other weird combination and that you too can experiment with your own likes to create your own. I create a new one each year myself, love the ability of one's imagination. Cats are always up to mischief as in this book...
I received this book from The Kennsington Books in exchange for my honest review