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pinkadilly 's review for:
Chocolate Chip Cookie Murder
by Joanne Fluke
The characters were fairly boring, and kind of stall before the "has character growth" line. This mostly stood out to me because throughout the read I kept thinking about how the main character is set up to be fairly smart, but then in the climax she grabs the idiot ball and runs with it.
It was also a little hamfisted in the characterizations, mostly of the main character who's almost a caricature of the unfeminine-cat-lady. The plot itself was ok, and it wasn't too torturous a read. The writing was sort of repetitive/overly wordy for my taste.
The inclusion of the recipes (at least in my edition, which I think may have been a special version) was pretty cool, though I didn't try any. And the novella, Candy's Christmas or something, was also a cute addition, but pure fluff and suffering from many of the same problems as the actual novel. I'd only read this if you're totally bored or a voracious mystery reader.
It was also a little hamfisted in the characterizations, mostly of the main character who's almost a caricature of the unfeminine-cat-lady. The plot itself was ok, and it wasn't too torturous a read. The writing was sort of repetitive/overly wordy for my taste.
The inclusion of the recipes (at least in my edition, which I think may have been a special version) was pretty cool, though I didn't try any. And the novella, Candy's Christmas or something, was also a cute addition, but pure fluff and suffering from many of the same problems as the actual novel. I'd only read this if you're totally bored or a voracious mystery reader.