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A review by jessalyn
Silent Knit, Deadly Knit by Peggy Ehrhart
2.0
As ever, this book has a quiet mystery in the midst of quiet lives, where the importance of eating and day-to-day routines far outweigh justice for murder.
Let's bypass the idyllic small town and Perfect Protagonist. Let's just accept that for the annoyance that it is.
What this book desperately needs is an editor: a real editor, one who reads and strikes out whole passages of unnecessary filler and points out when the same phrases are reused within pages of each other. (Personally, I'm convinced that the author has a list of descriptions/phrases she wants to always use in reference to certain characters. It becomes even more obvious when books are read back-to-back.)
This makes the writing style like MadLibs story formula: [Pamela] + [household chore]. [Pamela] + [work email takes a while to download, works] + [break] +[co-op reference] + [detailed coffee and meal prep] + [Betina interrupts].
Sometimes the descriptions seem like she is going down the synonyms list in the thesaurus. I don't mean to be mean, but this makes the filler even more obvious, like the author isn't sure how to make a story long enough to be a book.
Let's bypass the idyllic small town and Perfect Protagonist. Let's just accept that for the annoyance that it is.
What this book desperately needs is an editor: a real editor, one who reads and strikes out whole passages of unnecessary filler and points out when the same phrases are reused within pages of each other. (Personally, I'm convinced that the author has a list of descriptions/phrases she wants to always use in reference to certain characters. It becomes even more obvious when books are read back-to-back.)
This makes the writing style like MadLibs story formula: [Pamela] + [household chore]. [Pamela] + [work email takes a while to download, works] + [break] +[co-op reference] + [detailed coffee and meal prep] + [Betina interrupts].
Sometimes the descriptions seem like she is going down the synonyms list in the thesaurus. I don't mean to be mean, but this makes the filler even more obvious, like the author isn't sure how to make a story long enough to be a book.