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A review by starlia
Chocolate Chip Cookie Murder by Joanne Fluke
1.0
0 out of 10, would not recommend.
*le sigh* The Cozy Mystery genre appeals to me so much. I love murder mysteries, small towns, cute little shops, cute cats, and even clairvoyants. I’m brand new to the genre, so I picked out this book because it seems to be one of the most popular titles.
Please, someone tell me this isn’t the cream of the crop? That this book isn’t the representative of the genre? Because I hated it.
Okay—at first, I loved it! The protagonist has a cute cat? Check! The small town is small and cute? Check! The milk man is murdered! *gasp*
But as soon as that event happened, it went downhill fast for me. The protagonist, Hannah, barely (if ever?) shows emotion. She finds the body of the murdered milk man and is like *shrug*. Granted, I know to suspend some disbelief in this genre, and I’m not asking for the book to be a downer, but I *am* expecting the main character to at least respond to finding a dead body instead of the scene cutting right to her in her bakery, coddling her sister and her own problems. I had to do a double take just to make sure she was, in fact, the one that found the body.
And if I was the town sheriff, I would most definitely be looking at the protagonist as a prime suspect: first person to find body, shows no emotion, inserts self into investigation, etc. Alas, as I said, I could suspend some disbelief in this genre, even overlooking those details, if the main character wasn’t so unlikeable.
Because aside from those things, this book is crammed full of problematic elements like sexism, racism, fat-phobia, and a ton of other things that put a sour taste in my mouth.
I digress.
This wasn’t for me—and I so wanted it to be. *le sigh*
*le sigh* The Cozy Mystery genre appeals to me so much. I love murder mysteries, small towns, cute little shops, cute cats, and even clairvoyants. I’m brand new to the genre, so I picked out this book because it seems to be one of the most popular titles.
Please, someone tell me this isn’t the cream of the crop? That this book isn’t the representative of the genre? Because I hated it.
Okay—at first, I loved it! The protagonist has a cute cat? Check! The small town is small and cute? Check! The milk man is murdered! *gasp*
But as soon as that event happened, it went downhill fast for me. The protagonist, Hannah, barely (if ever?) shows emotion. She finds the body of the murdered milk man and is like *shrug*. Granted, I know to suspend some disbelief in this genre, and I’m not asking for the book to be a downer, but I *am* expecting the main character to at least respond to finding a dead body instead of the scene cutting right to her in her bakery, coddling her sister and her own problems. I had to do a double take just to make sure she was, in fact, the one that found the body.
And if I was the town sheriff, I would most definitely be looking at the protagonist as a prime suspect: first person to find body, shows no emotion, inserts self into investigation, etc. Alas, as I said, I could suspend some disbelief in this genre, even overlooking those details, if the main character wasn’t so unlikeable.
Because aside from those things, this book is crammed full of problematic elements like sexism, racism, fat-phobia, and a ton of other things that put a sour taste in my mouth.
I digress.
This wasn’t for me—and I so wanted it to be. *le sigh*