chelsss_ann 's review for:

The Pumpkin Spice Café by Laurie Gilmore

4.0

lighthearted mysterious medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

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This was such a cozy ready. We had a bit of a cozy mystery and a bit of a cozy love story. You might think it would be too much, but it really wasn't. Overall, this was a read that I enjoyed, but the only things that really stuck with me are the things that I didn't necessarily enjoy. A couple things that irked me a bit. 1) I feel like the culprit got off so easy. I didn't like that at all. 2) Logan needed to focus more on the present than the past. I loved when Jeanie told him he needed to work through his crap.

Now those things would have been fine if I would have read this book instead of listened to it. This is written in third person, and I think because of this, the narrator chosen for the audiobook sounds a bit older than the main characters of the book. I often ended up picturing the characters as being in their 50s rather than in their late 20s, and I don't think the narrator changed the voices of each character enough so it often became confusing.

I will definitely be picking up the next book in this series when I need a cozy, easy read, but it will not be the audio version.