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A review by whitmc
A Fatal Yarn by Peggy Ehrhart
3.0
A good friend sent me a screenshot of this, we both enjoy knitting and the book was on sale for $0.99. We didn't realize it was a series, nor the 5th in the series when we decided to read it together, because it's a pandemic and a knitting mystery with cats on the cover sounded exactly perfect. And you know, it was exactly perfect! And you don't need to read the first 4 books to dive in, although confession, I did download the first book because the characters are zany and fun.
The one strange thing that I kept noticing about the writing is that the author will describe a lot of routine things in very great detail without it being applicable to the plot. For example, very detailed description of the character making a piece of toast...to the point where you think toasting bread must be a key to the mystery, but no, it wasn't. And it was like that for a lot of things--going to the grocery store, making a sandwich...so that was amusing but if I read too many of these it would get old.
The one strange thing that I kept noticing about the writing is that the author will describe a lot of routine things in very great detail without it being applicable to the plot. For example, very detailed description of the character making a piece of toast...to the point where you think toasting bread must be a key to the mystery, but no, it wasn't. And it was like that for a lot of things--going to the grocery store, making a sandwich...so that was amusing but if I read too many of these it would get old.