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A review by caseymac
The Little Coffee Shop Of Terrors by Hazel Graves
1.0
Far and away the best thing about this book is the cover.
The premise (horror rom-com in an eccentric community based around a Sweeny Todd-esque coffee shop) has so much promise but the story fell flat, had major (major!) plot holes and the romance was superficial and flat. Oh and the writing style! I love a stupid joke, I love LOVE terrible puns, but they were spread so thick and were so try-hard that I cringed through the whole book. I only really finished to see how it could possibly wrap up.
The most egregious plot hole is why the MC had an aunt beloved by the community in the same city she lived in that she had never met?? This ran counter to everything else we ever learned about either woman.
The only thing we know about the love interest is that he is hot and has an Australian accent. Ugh.
The magic involved in the horror plot is incongruous and never explained, like, at all. The book lids along very slowly and the horror plot isn’t introduced until more than halfway through (60%ish if memory serves) and then the last chapter or so wraps everything up like the author had a word limit. I think it’s fair to say the first half of the story is 85% of the book and the second half is sped through the last 15% ish.
Crazy to me that a book like this has a major publisher when so many absolute GEMS have to be independently published.
The premise (horror rom-com in an eccentric community based around a Sweeny Todd-esque coffee shop) has so much promise but the story fell flat, had major (major!) plot holes and the romance was superficial and flat. Oh and the writing style! I love a stupid joke, I love LOVE terrible puns, but they were spread so thick and were so try-hard that I cringed through the whole book. I only really finished to see how it could possibly wrap up.
The most egregious plot hole is why the MC had an aunt beloved by the community in the same city she lived in that she had never met?? This ran counter to everything else we ever learned about either woman.
The only thing we know about the love interest is that he is hot and has an Australian accent. Ugh.
The magic involved in the horror plot is incongruous and never explained, like, at all. The book lids along very slowly and the horror plot isn’t introduced until more than halfway through (60%ish if memory serves) and then the last chapter or so wraps everything up like the author had a word limit. I think it’s fair to say the first half of the story is 85% of the book and the second half is sped through the last 15% ish.
Crazy to me that a book like this has a major publisher when so many absolute GEMS have to be independently published.