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A review by squidbag
Murder Freshly Baked by Vannetta Chapman
3.0
I have gotten a lot of the same question while I completed this series, and it boils down to "Hey, what's with all the Amish fiction?" The truth is, it's fun to do things that you don't normally do, and when the things in question don't suck, it's easy to keep doing them. That said, having finished this series, I have no great desire to read more of Chapman's work or anymore Amish fiction. It was solid, it never knocked me down, it was...cozy. And during a time of year that I feel jarred and slightly broken anyway, maybe this is what I wanted. I started a thing and I was compelled to finish it. I needed to know if Jesse and Hannah ever got married. I'm probably done with this now.
This was easily the most complex of the trilogy, with a subplot about PTSD and a four-sided murder mystery, with the murder happening on page one and the rest of the book unfolding to that point and beyond. The characters had the same arc as before, with the through line of the established ones becoming more developed while the newbies are sketches or cartoons. Additional risk was introduced here, but with the spans of weeks coming between incidents in the book, the pressure eases right off. Still a solid book that I can now first-person recommend to a certain type of Bookmobile patron.
This was easily the most complex of the trilogy, with a subplot about PTSD and a four-sided murder mystery, with the murder happening on page one and the rest of the book unfolding to that point and beyond. The characters had the same arc as before, with the through line of the established ones becoming more developed while the newbies are sketches or cartoons. Additional risk was introduced here, but with the spans of weeks coming between incidents in the book, the pressure eases right off. Still a solid book that I can now first-person recommend to a certain type of Bookmobile patron.