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A review by mercyblue
Tastes Like Murder by Catherine Bruns
3.0
Star rating: 3 Stars
Sally Muccio is finally making her dreams come true by opening her brand new cookie shop, Sally's Samples, with her best friend Josie. But when the worst happens and the most disliked woman in town is found dead outside of her shop, Sally will have to use all of her wits to find out who the killer is before she gets thrown in jail.
I had a lot of ups and downs with this novel. While I found the writing solid and the book relatively well written, the characters were all over the place. Some of the characters I liked include; Josie, Brian, Mike and Grandma Rosa. Some of those I didn't like: Basically everybody else. Sally is a complete doormat. She's unwilling to be unkind to somebody even after they've called her a bitch. One of the characters calls her a bitch in her own shop and she does absolutely nothing about it. At least ban her from your place if she's going to be so nasty! What does one review matter when the person obviously hates you anyway!? I just couldn't understand her character. Her parents were written in the same vein as Stephanie Plum and that was a tad grating. The love triangle that Catherine Bruns introduces to the novel is irritating mainly due to the fact that it became impossible to choose who I liked more: Mike or Brian. In the end though I knew exactly who she was going to choose, it wasn't a very hard guess. What also wasn't a very hard guess was who the murderer was. That's another reason why I moved this novel down from a higher rating. It became crystal clear a little too quickly who could have done it. I probably won't continue on with this series, mainly because I have other better things to read.
Sally Muccio is finally making her dreams come true by opening her brand new cookie shop, Sally's Samples, with her best friend Josie. But when the worst happens and the most disliked woman in town is found dead outside of her shop, Sally will have to use all of her wits to find out who the killer is before she gets thrown in jail.
I had a lot of ups and downs with this novel. While I found the writing solid and the book relatively well written, the characters were all over the place. Some of the characters I liked include; Josie, Brian, Mike and Grandma Rosa. Some of those I didn't like: Basically everybody else. Sally is a complete doormat. She's unwilling to be unkind to somebody even after they've called her a bitch. One of the characters calls her a bitch in her own shop and she does absolutely nothing about it. At least ban her from your place if she's going to be so nasty! What does one review matter when the person obviously hates you anyway!? I just couldn't understand her character. Her parents were written in the same vein as Stephanie Plum and that was a tad grating. The love triangle that Catherine Bruns introduces to the novel is irritating mainly due to the fact that it became impossible to choose who I liked more: Mike or Brian. In the end though I knew exactly who she was going to choose, it wasn't a very hard guess. What also wasn't a very hard guess was who the murderer was. That's another reason why I moved this novel down from a higher rating. It became crystal clear a little too quickly who could have done it. I probably won't continue on with this series, mainly because I have other better things to read.