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Deadly Arrangements (2014)

by Annie Adams(Favorite Author)

3.82 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

1502340909 (ISBN13: 9781502340900)

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

Self

series

Flower Shop Mystery

review 1: I just did not like this book. I tried to. I wanted to. But, in the end, the only good thing I can say is that the story had a few comical moments. Let's start with the broadest issue, which is the genre. This book is marketed as a mystery. If that's what you're looking for, look elsewhere. Most of this story concerns Quincy's relationship with her boyfriend. The mystery is secondary and convoluted. This book is far more romance than mystery.As for the plot, the attempt at mystery becomes overly complicated, the motives questionable, and the characters involved completely one-dimensional bordering on silly. The fact that Quincy even needed to solve this mystery, to me, is ridiculous. In the end, I could only shake my head at the kind of inept police department that would n... moreeed her to solve this crime. Now on to the romance. It's tiresome, repetitive, and immature. This, of course, makes Quincy feel immature. She spends endless pages contemplating whether or not to have sex with her committed boyfriend. Quincy is 30, not 18. This just didn't feel believable. In fact, their entire relationship felt childish to me. Rather than discussing certain concerns she has, she chooses to ignore them and sulk like a teenager. He is no better. He is supposedly gorgeous to look at. He's an undercover cop who is certainly experienced in life. Yet he behaves like an overly polite but clueless high school boy. They don't communicate, other than to talk about whether or not to have sex. I picked this book to read because I was in the mood for something light and fun. Unfortunately, none of it worked for me.
review 2: Quincy is caught up in a friend’s wedding while nervously contemplating a “happily after” of her own with undercover cop Alex. But every time they get close, they get interrupted with a murder, a prodigal father, an old girlfriend, and a ribbon obsessed future mother-in-law. While the mystery is not particularly challenging and some of the secondary characters are predictable, the back and forth between Alex and Qunicy unfolds in lock-step with the puzzle with satisfying hilarity. less

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