About the book:
✥Series/Trilogy/Stand-Alone, etc: Series #3
✥Release Date: December 4, 2012
✥Setting: Briar Creek, Connecticut
✥Page Count: 292✥Edition: Mass Market Paperback
✥Genre(s): Fiction, Cozy Mystery, Romance
✥Date(s) Read: 9/3/17-9/6/17
✥Rating: Book: 2.75/5 Audio: 3/5
My Thoughts:
Audio:
I'm not quite sure what I think about the narrator. I didn't completely dislike her and she did well reading but for some reason, her voice kept throwing me off, not sure why I felt that way. At least a couple times, when I thought she was reading in a man's voice, it turned out to be for a woman. It had me confused a few times. I can say she was good enough to keep me listening in order to finish a book I may not have otherwise.
Book:
With each book, it became a bit more of a struggle to get through. I think the only reason I got through this one, especially as quickly as I did, was the audio book. The other books took a few weeks to a month for me to finish and I'd end up in a slump of some kind (during and/or after reading the book). It was at the point that, before I even finished this one, I gave the next two books that came behind it away to my local used book store that I go to regularly. I just knew that I wouldn't be going on to them. This one ended on a cliffhanger of sorts so that makes it a bit harder because I do want to know what happens, even though I have some idea of what may happen. If I decide to go on, I guess I can always just order the fourth book and try to find the audio book as well but I really don't see that happening anytime soon. I still have the first two books as well because I forgot to grab them before I left home but they are in my "give these away" bag, ready to go.
Now, don't get me wrong, I do love the characters but there was just something about the book that just was not catching me. I don't know what it was but I just kept finding them boring. Many times, they wouldn't get good until the last few chapters or so when they started to heat up finding out who the killer was.
I have read her Cupcake Bakery Mystery series and I love that series (I am caught up on all of those. Book #10 due out in 2018). That's what made me buy the first five books of this series, because I had hoped I'd love these just as much. I read the first one, wasn't wild about it but hoped I'd like the next one but I didn't. When I got to this one and didn't enjoy it, I knew it was time to give up. That is something I had to learn with another couple of series I bought: Just don't struggle with books you don't like because there are too many out there that you just might. Occasionally, I will 'struggle' through individual books but generally, I will not struggle through an entire series. I used to not struggle through even individual books but sometimes, I just want to know what happens and how it got there. That was the case with this one and the previous books.
I have two of her Hat Shop Mystery books on my shelf right now. I accidentally bought book five, Assault and Beret, while I was at the book store I normally go to not sure which one it was until I got home. When I thought I was ready/close to being ready to read the first book, Cloche & Dagger, I ordered it. Hopefully I will like it at least enough to get through the series. I know now, with her books, not to go into them expecting them to be as loved as the Cupcake Bakery Mystery Series.
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