A Baker's Fatal Dozen 2.5 stars rounded down by Lisa Harris

[Karin]

2.5 stars rounded down, very disappointing after reading Harris's Southern Crime series which all hovered around 4 stars for me.

This is about a sixy-five year old amateur sleuth, a widow named Priscilla Crumb (sighs loudly at Crumb as the surname for a chef), who is torn about what to do about Max, a widower she has feelings for. While he is visiting, Reggie Pierce, husband of one of Priscilla's friends. Soon, against everyone else's wishes she is solving the case (sound familiar).

If you like this sort of romance, you may well like this book, but it's written a lot like Avalon and Harlequin romances but with Christians as the main characters and with some Bible quoted at times (appropriately, at least, not just randomly thrown in). Had I not already put this book into a finished book chain, I'd have left it unfinished. While I suspect that Lisa's novel writing helps support her family as they work as missionaries overseas, I hope she'll stick to the sort of writing she did in her Southern Crimes series and leave this sort of stuff behind, because I would like to read Christian mystery/thrillers with the same type of writing found in Southern Crimes and not this sort of writing.

[Anita]

I know I am being completely unreasonable, but if I like an author's work once, I fully expect to always like it and am so disappointed when I don't.

[Karin]

Anita wrote: "I know I am being completely unreasonable, but if I like an author's work once, I fully expect to always like it and am so disappointed when I don't."

Well, this is one of those authors who writes different KINDS of books, which was even more annoying. I thought I'd finally found a decent writer of Christian fiction that wasn't writing fluff, but then this was just that, fluff, and not my kind of fluff.