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Book Reviews of Sweet Revenge
Book Review: Sweet Revenge
Summary: 5 Stars
Book arrived much sooner than expected & was in like new condition. I was extremely pleased with both the service & the book. Thanks.Book Review: Sweet Revenge
Summary: 5 Stars
I love this author - have read all her books. It is similar to her earlier books but it is like visiting an old friend. I am looking forward to her next book.Book Review: Sweet Revenge Is The Perfect Title
Summary: 5 Stars
Diane Mott Davidson always lives up to her reputation. I have all her books and have let friends read them and everyone loves her writing and the recipes are the cherry on top!Book Review: This book was so bad I finally quit reading it about 40 pages before the end.
Summary: 2 Stars
I no longer CARED who-done-it, I just wanted it to be over. I sometimes think successful authors publish really mediocre books either a)because they're under pressure to come up with a book and they just don't have it in them to write it, or b) they're so successful that they can get away with things the publisher/editor would not allow a less successful writer to get away with.
This book seemed self-indulgent -- not edited by an objective editor. It was way too long, all other issues aside. I heard way too much about wonderful Goldy and her wonderful family in her wonderful town cooking wonderful meals and solving mysteries that stump the police, and way too little about the actual mystery.
I got really tired hearing about Goldy's wonderful but mouthy son Arch, and even found myself wishing that he and his two buddies were upstairs cooking an illegal substance instead of cleaning his room (we hear about that activity throughout the book) -- it would have livened the book up. I also fantasized Goldy discovering that her husband is having an affair -- anything to make this book less of Goldy's-wonderful-life and more dramatic.
Arch wanting to go snowboarding and what the place he snowboarded was like should not have been repeated over and over again. And it's not just that snowboarding stuff that got repeated several times. The author regularly summarized the same material over and over again. I couldn't decide if she was getting paid by the word and had to pad the book (to pay the mortgage?), or really thought the reader was too dumb to follow along without frequent repetition. Or maybe the book was meant to be published as a serial in a magazine? Because from time to time, there was the kind of summing up that allows readers who haven't read any of the previous chapters to follow along anyway.
I love mysteries, and I love cozies, but this one should never have been published. I rarely write a review that gives a book less than 3 stars, but I had to make an exception on this one. In fact, I wish I could get back the money I spent on the book -- shouldn't books come with guarantees or your money back?
I haven't read any other in the series by this author, but this one discourages me from wanting to reading earlier books about Goldy, since by page 400 or so -- it's quite a long book for a cozy mystery -- I was bored silly hearing about Goldy and her world. I get the idea, however, that her earlier books was much better, so I may eventually give one of them a try.
Book Review: This one was okay
Summary: 4 Stars
I finally got to (and through) this one and it was okay. Like the other reviews I thought the map topic was boring, but kept reading. What was really odd was how reckless Goldy was, wrecking Marla's car and fur coat, sneaking into a crime scene, taking a catering customer's car. The original Goldy would have never done things like that. Is Goldy getting younger? I don't remember her getting married to the Jerk and having Arch when she was 17?? But she kept making references to her age and him being 15. Also, I hope the next book takes place in the spring when the roads are not packed with snow and ice. I'll read her next one though, just because I like the series.