remigves 's review for:

Strawberry Shortcake Murder by Joanne Fluke

2.0

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I picked up the Hannah Swensen series four years ago. I read those books adapted into episodes for the Murder She Baked series, all but one, Strawberry Shortcake Murder. After a four year hiatus, I returned to the series with Strawberry Shortcake Murder. I will likely take another break from this series as I'm in no rush to finish and the books are ok. I wouldn't label them as guilty pleasure or trash, I really do find them ok. I find some criticisms about Hannah and the paint by number writing valid and won't defend. I rarely write reviews and I am only doing so because I wanted to comment on a passage I thought was weird. I found only one other review that commented on the weird Native American Indian comment Fluke inserted via Hannah's nostalgic musings of the good ole days when casual racism was ok because it wasn't intended to be offensive. I wouldn't be surprised if there are more reviews addressing the comment, I stopped searching after one review. I thought it was weird and was glad to see that at least one other person agreed with me. I do hope Fluke has evolved from the typical I'm sad I can't use this racist term that isn't really racist because it wasn't intended to be that way and my Native American friend said it's ok because thinking...