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A review by readsrandiread
Every Time I Go on Vacation, Someone Dies by Catherine Mack
adventurous
dark
lighthearted
mysterious
reflective
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
3.5
This was such a fun one! Absolutely perfect summer vacation/beach read! You get to travel all over Italy with the book tour group, while solving a (potential?) murder mystery. The author, Eleanor Dash, of the famed book series “When In Rome” breaks the fourth wall by talking directly to you in hundreds of footnotes, literally hundreds. It’s ridiculous and it’s funny. You WILL laugh reading this. I read the physical book, but I’ve heard the audio is great too.
Things I loved;
🍋 The characters! Loved that we were given celebrity doppelgängers to compare them all to. But there are a lot of them, I had to make a character cheat sheet for myself because I was struggling yo keep them all straight.
🍋 The descriptions! I want all the pasta that I read about, all of it!
🍋 The quirky writing style. Catherine Mack clearly had fun writing it. It doesn’t take itself too seriously at all.
What bugged me:
🍋 The lack of dialogue tags! Seriously I gave up on trying to know who was talking at any given time. You’d have multiple people in a conversation with no dialogue tags, ugh!
I’m so sad to learn that Italy is a sans Diet Coke type country. 😔
Footnote 201 in ETIGOVSD:
“Wait, have we talked about this yet? No, I don’t think so. You can’t get a Diet Coke anywhere in Italy, just Coke Zero. It’s a poor substitute, and I feel like it’s eroding the enamel on my teeth. Can someone tell me what Italians having against Diet Coke?” 🥤
Things I loved;
🍋 The characters! Loved that we were given celebrity doppelgängers to compare them all to. But there are a lot of them, I had to make a character cheat sheet for myself because I was struggling yo keep them all straight.
🍋 The descriptions! I want all the pasta that I read about, all of it!
🍋 The quirky writing style. Catherine Mack clearly had fun writing it. It doesn’t take itself too seriously at all.
What bugged me:
🍋 The lack of dialogue tags! Seriously I gave up on trying to know who was talking at any given time. You’d have multiple people in a conversation with no dialogue tags, ugh!
I’m so sad to learn that Italy is a sans Diet Coke type country. 😔
Footnote 201 in ETIGOVSD:
“Wait, have we talked about this yet? No, I don’t think so. You can’t get a Diet Coke anywhere in Italy, just Coke Zero. It’s a poor substitute, and I feel like it’s eroding the enamel on my teeth. Can someone tell me what Italians having against Diet Coke?” 🥤