What I am becoming annoyed with is the unrealistic daily operations of the Tea Shop itself seriously, the amount and type of food coming out of "that tiny kitchen" is just not realistic or plausible for just one chef in addition to the number of catering jobs they do), the heroine and her hair, and how the characters involved are all going, "Theo, don't do that!" and she does it anyway. Doh.
This one seemed to push the boundaries of believability more than some of the others. For example - Theo is trying to buy a house in the historic district. She has made an offer that has been accepted. Except now, for unexplained reasons, the seller is dinking around and she can only go over and walk through the house and plan on where she is going to put her furniture. Riiigght...she doesn't own the house, she shouldn't have free access to the house, amongst other things.
Then her dog digs up a *gasp!* human bone in her yard that JUST happened to be on the surface of the lawn. Not that there hasn't been extensive landscaping in the last oh, 100 years. Now suddenly there is an archaeological dig occurring in the yard. Not plausible in my book.
In another instance, Theo is run off the road in her Jeep, nearly injuring her dog. Yet, she doesn't call the police - she just drives out of the ditch and goes home. Nearly a day later she tells the investigating detective what happened. Now, if enough damage was done to her car, then there should be a damaged car somewhere in Charleston in the group she is investigating, correct? But no, she only looks at one suspects car. Again, not a plausible scenario.
There were other small tangents that seemed to clutter the story more so than add to it, and it's as if she's trying to fit in all the quirky characters of the Historic district so there are these people popping in and out of the plot, which really is too bad because this book could have been stronger than it was.
Recommended only if you've read some of the first ten books in this series.
2 comments:
And that is the problem with cosies. I sometimes read them anyway, but they're never really about the mystery, they're about the quirky characters and their interesting jobs and their active social lives.
Great term - "cosies"! I haven't heard that one before.
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