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A review by bags_and_bookz
A Song of Comfortable Chairs: No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith, Alexander McCall Smith
2.0
Thank you Netgalley, Penguin Random House Canada, Knopf Canada and Alexander McCall Smith for free e-ARC of A Song of Comfortable Chairs in return of my honest review.
I applied for the book because I enjoyed the premise, I like a good cozy mystery and this book should have hit the spot. However, I was astonished when I finished it as it was not a real mystery, Agatha Christie type, it was not mystery whatsoever. It was a story basically about friends helping each other to do good business- to facilitate the sale of comfortable chairs to the locals when a new competitive store has open and started to disrupt the first business.
First of all, it was hard to concentrate as it was super slow (that I can understand as it might have been due to cultural peculiarities). I wanted some actions, at least a few leads to follow - here it was who said what to whom in a grocery line, who overheard and imagined the rest, bla bla bla… and it was a book 23 of the series!!!! It was tiresome, boring, uninspiring and overall sad…
I am glad I finished it (even through pain and tears). I will not pick up this author again. Thank you
I applied for the book because I enjoyed the premise, I like a good cozy mystery and this book should have hit the spot. However, I was astonished when I finished it as it was not a real mystery, Agatha Christie type, it was not mystery whatsoever. It was a story basically about friends helping each other to do good business- to facilitate the sale of comfortable chairs to the locals when a new competitive store has open and started to disrupt the first business.
First of all, it was hard to concentrate as it was super slow (that I can understand as it might have been due to cultural peculiarities). I wanted some actions, at least a few leads to follow - here it was who said what to whom in a grocery line, who overheard and imagined the rest, bla bla bla… and it was a book 23 of the series!!!! It was tiresome, boring, uninspiring and overall sad…
I am glad I finished it (even through pain and tears). I will not pick up this author again. Thank you