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A review by romanreadingmachine
Death by Coffee by Alex Erickson
lighthearted
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
1.0
The main character sucks.
I already didn’t like her in the beginning when she shows how insecure she is of herself by constantly comparing her appearance to her best friend. Can we please move on from this idea that all women are secretly jealous of their best friends??
Her methods of being involved in this murder is too direct for a stranger who just moved to a small town, especially since she’s not even obsessed with murder mysteries that much. She also just makes random assumptions a lot with basically no evidence to back up any of it and that’s about 90% of the book.
There’s very little actual sleuthing and the “clues” that we do find are not as clever as the author may have thought. Like what the hell even is peanut dust? And if I were to poison someone with a peanut allergy with peanut dust, why would I use the air vent?
Also, I don’t understand why the murderer ended up being his mistress, who was jealous because she also slept with the wife?? Which also does not make sense because in what reality would someone want to sleep with their husband’s mistress, even if they were bisexual???
This book had a lot of potential and it was really disappointing how it ended up.
I already didn’t like her in the beginning when she shows how insecure she is of herself by constantly comparing her appearance to her best friend. Can we please move on from this idea that all women are secretly jealous of their best friends??
Her methods of being involved in this murder is too direct for a stranger who just moved to a small town, especially since she’s not even obsessed with murder mysteries that much. She also just makes random assumptions a lot with basically no evidence to back up any of it and that’s about 90% of the book.
There’s very little actual sleuthing and the “clues” that we do find are not as clever as the author may have thought. Like what the hell even is peanut dust? And if I were to poison someone with a peanut allergy with peanut dust, why would I use the air vent?
Also, I don’t understand why the murderer ended up being his mistress, who was jealous because she also slept with the wife?? Which also does not make sense because in what reality would someone want to sleep with their husband’s mistress, even if they were bisexual???
This book had a lot of potential and it was really disappointing how it ended up.