setaian's review against another edition
4.0
★★★½
After a frantic call from her sister, Stella heads to Wisconsin to rescue her nephew from gangsters. When she arrives, she finds Chip (the nephew) cutting up a body on the kitchen table, while his girlfriend, Natalya armed with a bottle of Spray & Wipe and a whole bunch of rags cleans up.
Things are never as they seem in Stella's world.
A Bad Day for Mercy rambles a bit, but it's good fun and easy to forgive the occasional lack of direction. Stella's on again / off again relationship with the Sheriff is once again "off". It used to annoy me, but now I just don't care. These books are all about Stella, a 50 something woman who makes abusive husbands / boyfriends leave town (or disappear) and making ex-husbands pay their maintenance.
She has an assortment of tools and zip ties in Tupperware containers in her trunk, as well as a couple of unlicensed firearms, which she uses to great effect in her business.
After a frantic call from her sister, Stella heads to Wisconsin to rescue her nephew from gangsters. When she arrives, she finds Chip (the nephew) cutting up a body on the kitchen table, while his girlfriend, Natalya armed with a bottle of Spray & Wipe and a whole bunch of rags cleans up.
Things are never as they seem in Stella's world.
A Bad Day for Mercy rambles a bit, but it's good fun and easy to forgive the occasional lack of direction. Stella's on again / off again relationship with the Sheriff is once again "off". It used to annoy me, but now I just don't care. These books are all about Stella, a 50 something woman who makes abusive husbands / boyfriends leave town (or disappear) and making ex-husbands pay their maintenance.
She has an assortment of tools and zip ties in Tupperware containers in her trunk, as well as a couple of unlicensed firearms, which she uses to great effect in her business.
mara_miriam's review against another edition
2.0
I feel pretty done with this series. The dialogue feels forced, the romance is contrived, and the mysteries aren't particularly interesting to me. In this particular iteration of the series there were some serious gaps in the logic of the story and the references to gang bangers and vegans was just annoying. I appreciate Stella and Christy as heroes and protagonists and I like seeing alternative models of justice, but in the context of rote crime novels, that just isn't enough to keep me invested.
finallywakingup's review
3.0
Another easy read, I do with the romantic sub-plot of these books would just be sorted out though, it's becoming a little tedious. I know it's not supposed to be as important as the mysteries but the fact that it's been dragged on for so long is taking away from the main plots.
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