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A review by krisrid
To Helvetica and Back by Paige Shelton
3.0
I enjoyed this book. It was a decent cozy.
The location of Utah was different, and not one I've read books set in before, so that was a good aspect of this for me. While I'm not a skier, I do live in Canada, so I can relate to snow. The location was just something unique and different for me and it added a new flavour to the story.
The plot was clever enough, and played on the location in an interesting way, which is all I will say to avoid spoiler.
The characters in this story weren't bad, although Clare kind of bugged me from time to time. Mostly I liked her, but every now and then she would do things that made me roll my eyes. The rest of the characters, though, I mostly liked. They were a good variety of personalities and quirks and perfect for a cozy mystery.
The thing that interested me initally about this book was the typewriter connection, and that turned out to not be quite as interesting as I had anticipated it would be. The talk about the typewriters was more mechanical than I expected, and wasn't really all that interesting, although it was kind of fun to hear about the various types of machines and their histories.
Overall, this was a fine example of a cozy. It had a good pace, interesting location, okay characters and all the right components were present.
The location of Utah was different, and not one I've read books set in before, so that was a good aspect of this for me. While I'm not a skier, I do live in Canada, so I can relate to snow. The location was just something unique and different for me and it added a new flavour to the story.
The plot was clever enough, and played on the location in an interesting way, which is all I will say to avoid spoiler.
The characters in this story weren't bad, although Clare kind of bugged me from time to time. Mostly I liked her, but every now and then she would do things that made me roll my eyes. The rest of the characters, though, I mostly liked. They were a good variety of personalities and quirks and perfect for a cozy mystery.
The thing that interested me initally about this book was the typewriter connection, and that turned out to not be quite as interesting as I had anticipated it would be. The talk about the typewriters was more mechanical than I expected, and wasn't really all that interesting, although it was kind of fun to hear about the various types of machines and their histories.
Overall, this was a fine example of a cozy. It had a good pace, interesting location, okay characters and all the right components were present.