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Double Fudge Brownie Murder
by Joanne Fluke
*sigh* I really don't know why I picked this up. Okay, actually I do. I heard this sorted the love triangle at last and was curious how it turned out. I'm Team Norman Run Far Away As Fast As You Can. I like Norman, he deserves better than know it all Hannah.
This series has irritated me one way or another for practically every book I have read (and that's about 7 or so), mostly it's Hannah and her ridiculously pedantic know it all attitude or her technophobia. When this series began some technophobia was normal, but we're well into the 21st century now and no one under about 65 is still dumbfounded by a cell phone or has to be pretty much bullied into buying one. Except for our pantsuit loving Hannah, who is not actually in her 30s but is secretly a 80 year old woman with a great face lift I suspect.
And while your average small child absolutely has more familiarity with one than a new user, they don't know about changing contracts or upgrading the phone itself. I despise way too intelligent for their age child characters.
Hannah's investigative technique often irritates me as well. Ignoring the 'wandering off on your own to question a possible murderer" foolishness (plenty of mystery heroines are guilty of this), the way she goes about questioning them is my issue. She sounds like a blackmailer most of the time. If she came to me insinuating things the way she tends to do, not only wouldn't I answer her, I'd call the cops and tell them what she is up to. No one ever does this.
Though I don't know what calling Mike would do anyway. He'd just go make a bunch of sexist comments to her about it, while expecting to be fed and that would piss me off even more.
So the triangle.... lord. Despite being a 30 year old pantsuit wearing, know it all with a probably sideline in blackmail, Hannah has had 2 men in her life all along. Sexist idiot Mike & too nice for her Norman. And they are all buddy buddy & she's dating them, but platonically from everything indicated up til now. Instead of choosing one, Hannah, OUT ON BAIL, skips town to go to Vegas for a few days with her sisters & runs into an old college flame Ross. All indications are that Hannah had sex with Ross while in Vegas and is now in LURVE and wants to marry him (as often happens with 30 something year old virgins who finally get them some)
What the hell!?!?! Ross was in one of the books I have read so the name wasn't totally out of the blue to me but the situation certainly was.
Oh, and the judge was killed and Hannah decides she has to solve the case and arrest the guy. Except for the pesky fact that she is a civilian and can't arrest anyone. The actual mystery plot I swear is less than 10% of the story and there was no way to solve it as the guilty party wasn't even introduced as a character until the end of the book.
Note to self: just stop reading this series.
This series has irritated me one way or another for practically every book I have read (and that's about 7 or so), mostly it's Hannah and her ridiculously pedantic know it all attitude or her technophobia. When this series began some technophobia was normal, but we're well into the 21st century now and no one under about 65 is still dumbfounded by a cell phone or has to be pretty much bullied into buying one. Except for our pantsuit loving Hannah, who is not actually in her 30s but is secretly a 80 year old woman with a great face lift I suspect.
And while your average small child absolutely has more familiarity with one than a new user, they don't know about changing contracts or upgrading the phone itself. I despise way too intelligent for their age child characters.
Hannah's investigative technique often irritates me as well. Ignoring the 'wandering off on your own to question a possible murderer" foolishness (plenty of mystery heroines are guilty of this), the way she goes about questioning them is my issue. She sounds like a blackmailer most of the time. If she came to me insinuating things the way she tends to do, not only wouldn't I answer her, I'd call the cops and tell them what she is up to. No one ever does this.
Though I don't know what calling Mike would do anyway. He'd just go make a bunch of sexist comments to her about it, while expecting to be fed and that would piss me off even more.
So the triangle.... lord. Despite being a 30 year old pantsuit wearing, know it all with a probably sideline in blackmail, Hannah has had 2 men in her life all along. Sexist idiot Mike & too nice for her Norman. And they are all buddy buddy & she's dating them, but platonically from everything indicated up til now. Instead of choosing one, Hannah, OUT ON BAIL, skips town to go to Vegas for a few days with her sisters & runs into an old college flame Ross. All indications are that Hannah had sex with Ross while in Vegas and is now in LURVE and wants to marry him (as often happens with 30 something year old virgins who finally get them some)
What the hell!?!?! Ross was in one of the books I have read so the name wasn't totally out of the blue to me but the situation certainly was.
Oh, and the judge was killed and Hannah decides she has to solve the case and arrest the guy. Except for the pesky fact that she is a civilian and can't arrest anyone. The actual mystery plot I swear is less than 10% of the story and there was no way to solve it as the guilty party wasn't even introduced as a character until the end of the book.
Note to self: just stop reading this series.