Body in the Bookstore by Emma Lee is the first book
in her Snow Ridge Mysteries series. It follows divorced mystery writer Bonnie
Mayberry settling into her new farm house in a quiet small town, when a local
teen is murdered and everyone’s eyes are on the new person in town, her.
This book only got 2 out of 5 stars. The skeleton of the
plot is interesting and has major potential, but the execution falls far short
of it. We are spoon fed information throughout the book, sometimes in info
dumps, sometimes through unrealistic dialogue, and other times through villain
speeches. It feels very amateurly written and poorly edited.
The characters also had potential, but again we never get
there. They are either trying too hard to be unique or don’t reach the depth
needed to make us feel invested in them. I felt like there were foundations in
many of the characters that could have been built upon to really flesh them out
and make it truly fascinating to read about them, but everything was left
surface level, or spoon fed to us so we couldn’t really feel with them.
Overall, it was a good concept for plot and characters, but
ruined with poor writing.
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