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A review by _lilbey_
Death by Coffee by Alex Erickson
2.0
I need to apologize to MHC for all those times I complained about her main characters being stupid or annoying. Compared to Krissy, they qualify for MENSA. The murder-related plot of this book was interesting and had lots of potential but I was SO AGGRAVATED by Krissy the whole time I couldn't enjoy it.
Krissy is just awful to other people. She is a terrible friend and colleague to Vicki, always leaving her at work and not pulling her own weight, and all so she can go harass locals in the town she JUST moved into. Then she is baffled when she is disliked. First day in town Krissy also meets a local who wants to get to know her, but is irritated by her, complaining that the woman is nosy and invasive, and frequently tries to avoid and ignore her, becoming annoyed when relentlessly pursued. I guess it takes one to know one because Krissy spends the rest of the book rudely poking her nose into the business of people she has never even met, relentlessly pursuing them while disliking the same behaviors she is engaging in when they are focused on her. Hypocrite.
She wants to solve the murder, which, great, classic mystery fodder, but she does it by bullying the people she thinks are involved into talking to her, refusing them to leave her alone until they answer her very invasive and forward questions- questions that people wouldn't answer if a FRIEND asked, let alone a person who JUST MOVED TO TOWN. Yet in this story, they ANSWER HER. WTF?
And why does she think she is equipped to solve a murder in a town she just moved to in which she is quickly angering and alienating people, you may ask? Oh, well, her dad writes mysteries. HUH? Yet, she doesn't use cunning or ingenuity to try to solve the crime (save one clue, that she arrived at due to, you guessed it, her harassing someone until she got what she wanted), just badgering people relentlessly.
If you need another reason to dislike Krissy, she seems to hate her cat. Which is an odd direction to take a book with a cat on the cover.
Krissy is just awful to other people. She is a terrible friend and colleague to Vicki, always leaving her at work and not pulling her own weight, and all so she can go harass locals in the town she JUST moved into. Then she is baffled when she is disliked. First day in town Krissy also meets a local who wants to get to know her, but is irritated by her, complaining that the woman is nosy and invasive, and frequently tries to avoid and ignore her, becoming annoyed when relentlessly pursued. I guess it takes one to know one because Krissy spends the rest of the book rudely poking her nose into the business of people she has never even met, relentlessly pursuing them while disliking the same behaviors she is engaging in when they are focused on her. Hypocrite.
She wants to solve the murder, which, great, classic mystery fodder, but she does it by bullying the people she thinks are involved into talking to her, refusing them to leave her alone until they answer her very invasive and forward questions- questions that people wouldn't answer if a FRIEND asked, let alone a person who JUST MOVED TO TOWN. Yet in this story, they ANSWER HER. WTF?
And why does she think she is equipped to solve a murder in a town she just moved to in which she is quickly angering and alienating people, you may ask? Oh, well, her dad writes mysteries. HUH? Yet, she doesn't use cunning or ingenuity to try to solve the crime (save one clue, that she arrived at due to, you guessed it, her harassing someone until she got what she wanted), just badgering people relentlessly.
If you need another reason to dislike Krissy, she seems to hate her cat. Which is an odd direction to take a book with a cat on the cover.