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A review by janjanjukebox
Twelve Slays of Christmas by Jacqueline Frost
3.0
Twelve Slays of Christmas by Jacqueline Frost 311 pages
Christmas Tree Farm Mystery #1
Genre: Holiday > Christmas; Mystery > Cozy Mystery; Thriller > Mystery Thriller; Romance, Contemporary, Adult Fiction
Featuring: Maine, a Bostonian, Reindeer Games, Return to the Nest, Cutesy Names, Cats, Murder -off camera
Rating as a movie: PG-13 for adult themes
My rating: ⭐⭐⭐½
My thoughts: page 28 - So-so
page 248 - Good but the main character is the only one I'm connecting with.
page 287 - I know it's terrible to quit with one chapter to go, but I'm going to be awake in a few hours anyway and I know who the murderer is.
So, I couldn't go to sleep without finishing this book, there were actually 2 short chapters left. If you have never heard of Jacqueline Frost or Jacqueline B. Frost, a lot of people seem to think this is her debut novel, but it's written too well and her name is as cute as the ones on the book. Julie Anne Lindsey has published over 40 books since her 2013 debut. She writes romance, mystery and suspense as herself and under the pen names Bree Baker, Jacqueline Frost, and Julie Chase. Her reasoning for the use of pen names is so her fans won't grab a Harlequin romance expecting a cozy mystery.
The story was better written than your average cozy mystery, yet it still didn't lure me down the rabbit hole. If I read the next 2 books it will be next year. I didn't fall in love with Mistletoe, Maine and although I was glad that Holly White wasn't your typical cozy idiot, she was the only good thing in the story for me. She had a legitimate reason to be nosy, she worked with the authorities and they weren't incompetent. She didn't put herself in danger or withhold information. It was refreshing to see a heroine with a brain, but everything else was either overly cute or unnecessarily vanilla conversation, so I wasn't jumping up and down over it. Overall it was better than okay but I enjoyed the cover more than the story. I am interested in reading one of her other pen names.
Recommend to others?: Yes. If you love Hannah Swenson but you don't like stupidity or recipe filler this would be a good read.
Christmas Tree Farm Mystery #1
Genre: Holiday > Christmas; Mystery > Cozy Mystery; Thriller > Mystery Thriller; Romance, Contemporary, Adult Fiction
Featuring: Maine, a Bostonian, Reindeer Games, Return to the Nest, Cutesy Names, Cats, Murder -off camera
Rating as a movie: PG-13 for adult themes
My rating: ⭐⭐⭐½
My thoughts: page 28 - So-so
page 248 - Good but the main character is the only one I'm connecting with.
page 287 - I know it's terrible to quit with one chapter to go, but I'm going to be awake in a few hours anyway and I know who the murderer is.
So, I couldn't go to sleep without finishing this book, there were actually 2 short chapters left. If you have never heard of Jacqueline Frost or Jacqueline B. Frost, a lot of people seem to think this is her debut novel, but it's written too well and her name is as cute as the ones on the book. Julie Anne Lindsey has published over 40 books since her 2013 debut. She writes romance, mystery and suspense as herself and under the pen names Bree Baker, Jacqueline Frost, and Julie Chase. Her reasoning for the use of pen names is so her fans won't grab a Harlequin romance expecting a cozy mystery.
The story was better written than your average cozy mystery, yet it still didn't lure me down the rabbit hole. If I read the next 2 books it will be next year. I didn't fall in love with Mistletoe, Maine and although I was glad that Holly White wasn't your typical cozy idiot, she was the only good thing in the story for me. She had a legitimate reason to be nosy, she worked with the authorities and they weren't incompetent. She didn't put herself in danger or withhold information. It was refreshing to see a heroine with a brain, but everything else was either overly cute or unnecessarily vanilla conversation, so I wasn't jumping up and down over it. Overall it was better than okay but I enjoyed the cover more than the story. I am interested in reading one of her other pen names.
Recommend to others?: Yes. If you love Hannah Swenson but you don't like stupidity or recipe filler this would be a good read.