Guilty as Cinnamon, by Leslie Budewitz

Guilty as Cinnamon by Leslie Budewitz

My rating: 4 of 5 stars


I thoroughly enjoyed book one in the series, but book 2 surpassed it, which is always a good thing!

I still love the Seattle setting and the Market. It makes me want to go back to Seattle and spend more time in the Market area, poking around (sadly, after my last visit and fighting with the awful Seattle traffic I swore I'd not go there again, because it would drive me completely around the bend, haha).

The story starts off a bit slowly, and I admit I put it down for a few days in favor of a few audio books so I could knit (I tried knitting and reading once, it didn't work out very well, resulted in multiple dropped stitches and a very frustrated knitter!). But when I picked it back up, it picked right up too, and I read it straight through.

By the way, I love Indian food, so this book made me hungry a lot. Conveniently my husband shares my love of spicy food and took me for a lovely Indian dinner on Valentine's Day (our 25th wedding anniversary this year). This book also made me wish Pepper's shop was real, or that we at least had something similar locally. We have a spice shop in the next town, but I wasn't impressed with either the freshness or the staff.

I can't wait for the nice Spice Shop installment!



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Brotherhood in Death, by J.D. Robb

Brotherhood in Death by J.D. Robb

My rating: 5 of 5 stars


Quite possibly the best book in the series for years. Lt Eve Dallas took a huge step in this book and it was nice to see her expose her inner self a lot more to the little family she's made.

I adore her little crush on Dennis Mira and how sweetly uncomfortable it makes Eve.

After 42 books, this series doesn't seem to be slowing down at all, thank goodness!



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Staked, by Kevin Hearne

Staked by Kevin Hearne

My rating: 1 of 5 stars


The time between novels is usually enough to blur details of the story anyway. This one was an especially long wait because Hearne decided to say to heck with his loyal fans and write something else instead. Then you add the money grab created by putting the first several chapters of this book into an ebook only anthology for $5.99 and it is BS.

The 3 separate points of view that I hated from the previous book are still here and as annoying as hell. Granuaile is an annoying whingy bitch and all together too preachy in this book, instead of the kick ass and take no names person she was before. And Owen is an arse that should have been left on the weird island in time.

I got 1/4 of the way in before I decided I just couldn't do it anymore. I skipped to the end where I discovered that even Oberon and the promise of puppies is not enough to make me read the last book in the series. Good-bye, Atticus. I loved you, once.



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