' She should definitely be questioning something, but way to insert a gross stereotype! I cocked one eyebrow at him, as if to question his sexual orientation. Lace doilies and antique porcelain knickknacks dotted every surface. I was surprised to see that the room was painted a pale lavender with white trim. 'Dutch opened the door to a bedroom just down the hall.

A flutter of insecurity tickled my tummy, and I wished for not the first time that day that I had put more effort into my appearance before leaving the house.' 'He had that effect on people he was someone who quite literally exuded virility, and like a scent in the air it tickled the noses of everyone interested. Actually, I don't know a candy awful enough to stand as an analogy to this book. I was looking for brain candy this was the verbal equivalent of Pop Rocks. As soon as you will be done, your brain will act like waves on sand and erase it all. Plus, on occasion, a voice that could shine but chooses to glow instead. All in all, the book has all the commercial ingredients: a superficial mystery and a predictable love story. Although the reader is being warned on the very first page of Chapter One -probably the best, funniest page of the whole novel, that she is boring like vanilla ice cream. I would have hoped then for a more interesting character. But should she perhaps aspire to slightly more than whipped cream and a little cherry on top? For underneath all that there is very little substance.ĭoes being entertained necessarily mean plunging into vacuity? I wonder: Does Victoria Laurie perhaps confuse chatty with witty? While there are entertaining moments, and a murder plot finally emerges, Laurie is neither a Janet Evanovich nor a Mary Higgins Clark. About the friend of narrator Abby moving out to California, Abby's dog Eggy, Abby and Eggy having breakfast together, Abby's moody clients. For the first one hundred pages, it's just useless talk, talk, talk. While I didn't expect an intense, à la Simenon mystery, I didn't contemplate reading something so chatty, either.

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