Catching up on books
Mar. 15th, 2010 08:29 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
amanda_loddenI thought I had more than this, but apparently not.
8. The Cat, The Quilt and The Corpse by Leann Sweeney
The main character's cat disappears, and somehow it leads to murder. I wish I could expand on that, except the plot was forgettable. The only parts of the book that stick out in my memory are the stupid bits. I'm a cat lover, but in the scene in which the main character calls the police and is treated rudely over her concern for her cats-- I agreed with the police officer. Most of the characters were way over the top.
9. Poisoned By Gilt by Leslie Caine
Another disappointing book. The mystery itself wasn't too bad, but the character interaction was awful. It's particularly disappointing because these same characters were what drew me to the series initially. But after a while, getting non-sleuth characters to continue getting involved in mysteries requires more and more suspension of disbelief. The fifth book in a series about an interior designer who gets involved in murders requires an awful lot of suspension of disbelief. Moreover, the author comes from the Moonlighting school of thought, and seems loathe to let her two romantic leads finally get together. But instead of keeping a good sexual tension between them, she just has the main character (and the only point of view we get) be jealous and irrational and refuse to communicate properly. Mostly, I just wanted to slap her.
8. The Cat, The Quilt and The Corpse by Leann Sweeney
The main character's cat disappears, and somehow it leads to murder. I wish I could expand on that, except the plot was forgettable. The only parts of the book that stick out in my memory are the stupid bits. I'm a cat lover, but in the scene in which the main character calls the police and is treated rudely over her concern for her cats-- I agreed with the police officer. Most of the characters were way over the top.
9. Poisoned By Gilt by Leslie Caine
Another disappointing book. The mystery itself wasn't too bad, but the character interaction was awful. It's particularly disappointing because these same characters were what drew me to the series initially. But after a while, getting non-sleuth characters to continue getting involved in mysteries requires more and more suspension of disbelief. The fifth book in a series about an interior designer who gets involved in murders requires an awful lot of suspension of disbelief. Moreover, the author comes from the Moonlighting school of thought, and seems loathe to let her two romantic leads finally get together. But instead of keeping a good sexual tension between them, she just has the main character (and the only point of view we get) be jealous and irrational and refuse to communicate properly. Mostly, I just wanted to slap her.
