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A Novel Death (2011)

by Judi Culbertson(Favorite Author)

3.11 of 5 Votes: 3

languge

English

genre

Fantasy

publisher

Thomas & Mercer

series

Secondhand Prose Mystery

review 1: A quick, fun read. The writing isn't great and the end sort of fizzled out on me--it wrapped up pretty quickly with few real clues--the story just sort of works itself out and the main character explains how she found some information online that helped her put it together. The plot basically follows a woman who's trying to pull her life together after her professor-husband leaves her. She starts an online book selling business. After a couple people around her are found murdrered and one is brutally attacked, she fears she may be next because of a valuable book someone seems to be after. The main character has some baggage that haunts her throughout the book, which veers, at times, away from the cozy mystery into something more serious. Despite the pitfalls of the writing... more and plotting, it was a fun, cozy-read and I'd like to see how this series develops. There are two more novels in the series so far. I'll continue with the series.
review 2: Glad this was a freebie. The second half was MUCH better and moved along more smoothly, the first half was clunky and had a lot of weird sentence structure. I didn't care about ANY of the characters and that is always a bad thing. I mean, not one! I could hardly stand the main character and for as much life experience as she had she was pretty dumb! I hate dumb. Some of the historical content was interesting and the setting descriptions were good. It was just eeh for me.I did have one quote I enjoyed:"But death is a funny thing. Although it is news that will never change, there is a fearsome urgency to letting people know once it has happened. In an odd way it seems unfair to let them continue to live their lives without knowing." (945) less

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