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Homicide and Halo-Halo (Tita Rosie's Kitchen Mystery, #2)
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bookshelves: authors-of-color, non-ya, mystery-thriller-horror-etc, diverse, arc, unpopular-opinion, eh, 2-and-a-half-stars, reviewed
Feb 19, 2022
bookshelves: authors-of-color, non-ya, mystery-thriller-horror-etc, diverse, arc, unpopular-opinion, eh, 2-and-a-half-stars, reviewed
I have never really THOUGHT cozy mysteries were for me, but allegedly "you never know until you try" or something.
So now I have tried, and I think they still probably are not.
When I first got back into reading, I was so excited that I was 99% sure I liked everything that could legally qualify as a book, or otherwise conveyed meaning via words on a page.
But in the intervening years of me being myself (read: critical, hateful, cruel, grumpy, endowed with all of the charm and sunshiney personality of the bad guy in a children's movie), I have eliminated genres one by one.
First it was historical. Then it was all sci-fi except for biannual occasion I think I might be wrong. Then it was most YA (still haven't accepted that one). Then it was thrillers.
Now maybe it's thrillers and mysteries at large.
This was, in many ways, a fluffy and fun turn-your-brain-off read. It had delicious food descriptions, it was silly (in the good way) and silly (in the bad way, especially the ending). It was basically what I expected from baby's first cozy mystery.
Yes, there was also a love triangle for no reason, and additionally there were DOZENS of characters with 0 to 1 lines of dialogue who I could not remember or keep straight if you offered me financial compensation to do so, and overall I don't know if this genre was my cup of tea.
But it was fun to try something new!
Bottom line: Apparently that whole "you learn something new every day" thing made some points.
(thanks to netgalley / publisher for the e-arc)
So now I have tried, and I think they still probably are not.
When I first got back into reading, I was so excited that I was 99% sure I liked everything that could legally qualify as a book, or otherwise conveyed meaning via words on a page.
But in the intervening years of me being myself (read: critical, hateful, cruel, grumpy, endowed with all of the charm and sunshiney personality of the bad guy in a children's movie), I have eliminated genres one by one.
First it was historical. Then it was all sci-fi except for biannual occasion I think I might be wrong. Then it was most YA (still haven't accepted that one). Then it was thrillers.
Now maybe it's thrillers and mysteries at large.
This was, in many ways, a fluffy and fun turn-your-brain-off read. It had delicious food descriptions, it was silly (in the good way) and silly (in the bad way, especially the ending). It was basically what I expected from baby's first cozy mystery.
Yes, there was also a love triangle for no reason, and additionally there were DOZENS of characters with 0 to 1 lines of dialogue who I could not remember or keep straight if you offered me financial compensation to do so, and overall I don't know if this genre was my cup of tea.
But it was fun to try something new!
Bottom line: Apparently that whole "you learn something new every day" thing made some points.
(thanks to netgalley / publisher for the e-arc)
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Apr 09, 2022 05:17PM
Did you read the first one? Because this is a sequel and some of your reasons for not feeling it are easily explained within the first one, such as the love triangle and all the side characters.
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To be fair I read the first one too and reading this one felt the love triangle was unnecessary - it didn’t really add to the plot at all
I do think the love triangle will lead to more in the 3rd installment next month!
