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Finished Dipped, Stripped, and Dead. I enjoyed, thought it was a good start to a new series. Going to start on Killer Mousse.
I only gave 3 stars to Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley, because I am not sure how much I really liked it. I had heard wonderful reviews for the book and eagerly picked it up, anticipating a good mystery with an intriguing lead character. But, I was disappointed at how easy it was to figure out the entire mystery itself. There are many layers to the mystery and murder(s), but each layer was pretty superficial and transparent. The other issue I have with the book is that Flavia, the 11 y/o lead character is not very likable. She is ruthlessly mean to her older sisters and it's not even clear if she loves her father. The only person she seems to have any attachment to is Dogger, a man who is a handyman at the family's estate. I'm not sure I will read the 2nd in this series, I just couldn't love or even like this book enough to give it another chance
I just finished reading "Wicked Cravings" by GA Mckevett, I love this series!. If you haven't yet tried Savannah Reid, the fiesty southern belle who is a smart , clever PI you might check out the series.
Kelley wrote: "I only gave 3 stars to Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley, because I am not sure how much I really liked it. I had heard wonderful reviews for the book and eagerly picked it up, an..."Thanks for the update on this one Kelley - you stopped my from buying it! I will just get it from the library and save some money.
Lisa wrote: "I just finished reading "Wicked Cravings" by GA Mckevett, I love this series!. If you haven't yet tried Savannah Reid, the fiesty southern belle who is a smart , clever PI you might check out the s..."I have the first book in my tbr pile - thanks :)
Lisa wrote: "I just finished reading "Wicked Cravings" by GA Mckevett, I love this series!. If you haven't yet tried Savannah Reid, the fiesty southern belle who is a smart , clever PI you might check out the s..."Heidi, I also reserved my copy from the library. I have made myself only buy PBKS now :) Let me know what you think about it!
I just finished reading Avenging Angels by Mary Stanton.Great mystery read and the best in the series so far.
Included some new information on Beaufort & Company as well as the history of Savannah.
Lisa wrote: "I just finished reading "Wicked Cravings" by GA Mckevett, I love this series!. If you haven't yet tried Savannah Reid, the fiesty southern belle who is a smart , clever PI you might check out the s..."I read this earlier this month and while I liked it it felt to me like the book was written by someone else. The whole "voice" just wasn't the same to me and I've read them all. I also was extremely annoyed by the word "yep" or "yup", depending on what part of the country you're from, being spelled "yeap". It just drove me up the wall!
Trine wrote: "I just finished reading Avenging Angels by Mary Stanton.Great mystery read and the best in the series so far.
Included some new information on Beaufort & Company as well as t..."
I read the first in this series when it came out and was disappointed with it. I thought the main character was just way too clueless. I have the 2nd & 3rd, they were passed on to me by a friend, and hope I like them better.
The new information on Beaufort & Company greatly improved the series - especially in the way of character development. Hope you like the next two better, too, Melodie. :-)
I agree on Diva Paints the Town and If Books Could KIll!
I just finished The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie, I gave it a 2 star and that was being generous. Should you be interested in my further thoughts on it please check out my review. Although I will probably eventually read book two I will not be standing in line at the bookstore the day it is released.
I finished
and it was a stellar read! I've read all the books in this series except one and have never cared for Ophelia. She truly comes into her own in this one and I gave it 5 stars.
I just finished
and loved it! I'm looking forward to reading the others in this series.
Kathy wrote: "Kelley wrote: "I only gave 3 stars to Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley, because I am not sure how much I really liked it.I was ambivalent about Sweetness too. Flavia was beyon..."
Hi Kathy - welcome :) p.s. definitely going into Sweetness with the knowledge that it may be over hyped.
Dru wrote: "I just finished How to Host a Killer Party by Penny Warner. It started off slow but it was a good read."My thoughts exactly!
I just finished
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and thought it was a bust. It as SO easy to figure out that it was boring. The "triangle" thing might come to a close soon with the addition of a new character. Think I'll get the next one from the library.
Melodie wrote: "I just finished [image error] and thought it was a bust. It as SO easy to figure out that it was boring. The "triangle" thing might come to a close soon with the addit..."Ha! You said you were done after this one - now you just may get it from the library :)
Heidi wrote: "Melodie wrote: "I just finished [image error] and thought it was a bust. It as SO easy to figure out that it was boring. The "triangle" thing might come to a close soo..."Yeah, I'll probably get it from the library to see if anything happens due to this new character who just came in on the very last page. I definitely won't buy it.
Just finished reading Truly, Madly by Heather Webber. It was good, but a little easy to figure out. I will definitely read more, because I love the author and her other series that featured Nina Quinn. I like the characters in this one and it tugs at the heart strings more than once. It's a good read, even if the mystery itself was easy to decipher.
Melodie wrote: "I just finished [image error] and thought it was a bust. It as SO easy to figure out that it was boring. The "triangle" thing might come to a close soon with the addit..."Oh no, I was just going to start this one after I finished online. Maybe she is cranking them out too fast, as I thought Plum Pudding was not very good. Thanks for the heads up!
You know you don't have to read the books to find out if Hannah ever makes up her mind (or becomes less boring - ok that is just my personal opinion)- just ask someone here or check Wikipedia ...I'm just saying :)
Kelley wrote: "Just finished reading Truly, Madly by Heather Webber. It was good, but a little easy to figure out. I will definitely read more, because I love the author and her ot..."Thanks for the update. I tried to "win" this on the giveaways here, but no such luck. I added it to my pile.
Heidi wrote: "alicia wrote: "I finished Holiday Grind and it was another good one in the series. I really love all the great coffee and goodie recipes in this one too. Now I have to finish [book:G..."I really enjoyed it. I liked Harper and Tolliver and would love to know more of there very dsyfunctional family background. I thought it was very different and will finish the series.
I just finished The Diva Paints the Town by Krista Davis. I love this series and right now, it's probably my favorite series. For once the mystery was hard to figure out for me and I know it's a good book if I can't figure out who did in the first 100 pages. And this time it had me guessing until the end, though I was hoping it was one particular person, who did have a hand in the murder, but the other was totally a surprise. Pick this series up if you haven't already, it's worth your time!
I just finished Apple Turnover Murder
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and it was forgettable. The recipes were the best part.
Alicia- glad you liked Grave Sight. I think Iam too picky sometimes (ok most of the time) :)
Last night I read 'The Chocolate Cat Caper. The first inthe Chocaholic Series by Joanna Carl. It was kay..pretty good. Nothing spectacular. Pretty cutesy and fluffy. Caught the clue as soon as it emerged, so knew whodunnit before the ending. I have the next two books in the series alread. I'll probably buy the others as well if the next two are just as good. Loved the chocolate trivia and tidbits of information!
Rosemary wrote: "I just finished Apple Turnover Murder[image error]and it was forgettable. The recipes were the best part."I agree. The recipes were definitely the best part of this one. I got the book with a gift card and turned it back around on eBay and got back almost all what it cost.
I just finished Index to Murder by Jo Dereske. I thought I had already read it but as I got further into the book I knew that I hadn't. As I've mentioned in another thread this had been listed as the last book in the Miss Zukas Mystery series and I wrote Jo Dereske to see if that was true. It was almost true, it is the next to the last, she is working on the last one right now. I love the Miss Zukas mysteries and I think I have to move them to the #1 spot in bibliomysteries. I hate to see the series end. I feel that we got to see a more human side to Helma in Index to Murder and there were some things revealed at the end of the book about her (unrelated to the mystery) that were very interesting. I am going to miss this series very much and might just have to start back at Miss Zukas and the Library Murders and read the whole series over again.
Kelley wrote: "I just finished The Diva Paints the Town by Krista Davis. I love this series and right now, it's probably my favorite series. For once the mystery was hard to figu..."I've been thinking about reading this series. Thanks for the review, Kelley. :-)
I just finished Sucker Punch by Sammi Carter. It was my least favorite in this series so far.I started Homicide In Hardcover by Kate Carlisle, but just couldn't get past the first few chapters...so it's in the DNF pile.
I finished
,
and
. The Chiaverini is something I wouldn't normally read, but I saw the series mentioned here awhile back and dug it out of The Pile since it had been there for sometime. It was a good read. Really liked the Sniegoski book, too, but still not as good as the first in the series. And I really liked the Bibliophile mystery. This one is set in Edinburgh, Scotland, a place I hope to get to in the next couple of years.
Dru wrote: "I just finished Wicked Craving by G.A. McKevett and I loved it."Did the "voice" of this one seem different to you? It just seemed like something was off with this one, even tho I did still enjoy the story.
Just finished Murder Grins and Bears It by Deb Baker. I thought it was very good. Love all the different people in it. Very funny.
I finished
and
. Both were good reads! I love the Domestic Diva series!
I just finished "Cut, Crop & Die" by Joann Campbell Slan. The setting is in St. Louis, MO and many of the landmarks are very familiar to me since I live about 30 minutes away. This makes the book even more interesting to me, besides having met the author at a local scrapbook store. Great read!
Cindy wrote: "I just finished "Cut, Crop & Die" by Joann Campbell Slan. The setting is in St. Louis, MO and many of the landmarks are very familiar to me since I live about 30 minutes away. This makes the book ..."Sounds like an interesting book, Cindy. :-)
The Domestic Diva series looks interesting to me ~Thanks Melodie!
Melodie wrote: "Rosemary wrote: "I just finished Apple Turnover Murder[image error]and it was forgettable. The recipes were the best part."I agree. The recipes were..."
I've been hearing bad things about this newest book. I haven't read it yet, but I'll be upset if it's not good. I've been reading the books back to back for a few weeks now and have really grown to like the characters.
Melodie wrote: "I finished and . Both were good reads! I love the Domestic Diva series!"I'm going to give the Domestic Diva series a try as well. Thanks Melodie!
Melodie wrote: "I finished and . Both were good reads! I love the Domestic Diva series!"I love the Domestic Diva series too Melodie...and now I'm hooked on the CSI series too!
Kathryn wrote: "Have any of you read Jasper Fforde's NURSERY CRIME novels? I stumbled across the second one, The Fourth Bear at the library. Looks like it could be a lot of fun. If you have read b..."I love Jasper Fforde! The Nursery Crime Series is actually a spin-off of the Thursday Next Series, the first of which was The Eyre Affair. He does a pretty good job of writing each book so that it can be read stand-alone, but I would definitely recommed reading them all. The Eyre Affair sets up the whole alternate world where people live and breath literature. Not only is time travel taken for granted, but so is cloning extint species at home for fun, literary characters jumping out of books and living in the real world, and real people jumping into literary works and possibly changing the endings. Which is where the heroine comes in. Her name is Thursday Next (what a great character name) and she is a literary detective. She is tasked with keeping people who don't like the endings of books from jumping into them and changing them. Thus the Eyre Affair has to do with someone changing the ending of Jane Eyre. It was so skillfully written that I had to go back and read Jane Eyre afterwards because I couldn't remember how it really ended. lol It helps to be well grounded in the classics when you read this series, because it will make you re-think what you remember.
Susie in KS wrote: "Melodie wrote: "I finished and . Both were good reads! I love the Domestic Diva series!"I love the Domestic Diva ser..."
All the CSI books that Max Allan Collins wrote are good, Susie. The ones after he stopped writing them are hit & miss.
Rosemary wrote: "I just finished Apple Turnover Murder[image error]and it was forgettable. The recipes were the best part."Unfortunately this isn't her best. I just finished it too, and there really wasn't much of a mystery to the murder. It seemed to be more of a set-up for the next book, where I'm assuming Norman's new partner is being set-up as the next victimand the whole job in Florida for Bill was left hanging for some future reason. The recipes were still excellent though.
Dru wrote: "I just finished Pretty In Ink by Karen E. Olson and it was very enjoyable. I'm looking forward to Driven to Ink: A Tattoo Shop Mystery."I've got this one coming up after I finish RED DELICIOUS DEATH.
Dru wrote: "How do you like Red Delicious? It's on my pile...."Haven't gotten very far, but it's not that great. I liked the first in the series and thought the 2nd was mostly just okay. So far this one isn't as good as the 2nd one was.
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I agree, Heidi. I read either 2 or 3 of the Harper Connelly books and didn't really care for any of them. Harper is very easy NOT to like and I don't like her "brother" either.