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Rated Triple Chocolate Cheesecake Murder 2/10

I picked up this book in anticipation of checking out a local book club. This is their January read. However, the meet is scheduled for one of the days next week where it's supposed to be extremely cold and also, honestly, I did not enjoy this book.<br/><br/>I can't believe the amount of coffee and pastries these people drank and ate. And the amount of time spent describing and asking about pouring and making coffee and baking. Good grief! I wasn't interested in a cookbook, so I skipped through the many many pages of baking instructions for whatever baked good was just exhaustively discussed in the previous chapter.<br/><br/>Speaking of skipping, I didn't quite skip, but did do a lot of skimming not long after I started the book of alllll that coffee making, drinking, pouring, and baked good describing. It didn't help that after only a few chapters I noticed and then couldn't not notice how stilted everyone spoke. And how... staccato? all the writing was. It reminded me of the lessons drilled into me by English teachers to throw in some variety in your writing with sentence structure and vocabulary to keep your writing interesting.<br/><br/>I even checked the reading level of the book thinking maybe I'd not noticed the book club was for teens or something. Sad and horrifying this is supposed to be adult reading level. It's a slim recipe book with an attempt at a mystery on the side. When it finally got around to that, it was painfully obvious who was the murderer. And who would let them walk like that?? Yikes.<br/><br/>Not recommended above middle schoolers. And probably not even that considering all that recipe padding.

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Published 2026-08-18 17:58 UTC · bridged from Atmosphere