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Don't Insult Your Readers!
I rarely write two book reviews in a single day--but then, I rarely get so ticked off by a book that I don't make it past a very few pages. Here's a Really Big Hint to the author: many readers of the cozy mystery genre are Ladies of a Certain Age...or beyond. Therefore, it might be best not to refer to a crowd of tourists as "geriatrics", or to mock with a fart joke a group of women in "floppy purple hats" (Uh, listen up, bucko: yet another big clue. We are Red Hatters. Red hats, as taken from line in the poem: "... I shall wear purple, with a red hat..." The purple is the decoration, not the hat.) Only a few pages in, I was fed up with the arrogant attitudes and un-subtle mockery of this very unlikeable main character, and the ageist remarks were one thing too many. If I'd continued, I'd actually have been rooting for him to be convicted of murder. I'd give this book less than one star if I could. I deleted the it from my Kindle.
May 2019 · Unknown · verified purchase