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Garden Plot (2011)

by Kristen McKendry(Favorite Author)

3.39 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

1608612376 (ISBN13: 9781608612376)

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

Covenant Communications, Incorporated

review 1: I loved this book. It was clean, well written and had a great story.Erin, the heroine of story, isn't some young anorexic girl with blonde hair and big boobs. She's a real woman, living a real life and dealing with real problems. Her biggest problem is the dead body she finds in her vegetable garden. The body without a face.The naming of the hymns that ran through her head was good and sometimes made me laugh.I highly recommend this book to anyone who likes a good murder mystery without any gore. Read and have fun. I was reading during lunch, but got a lot read when I had tires changed on the car and I finished it when I spent 3+ hours in the ER. Well worth reading.
review 2: Okay, so this book had its faults, but I really liked it. It was a fun murder m... moreystery. It was clean, well-written, and had an engaging plot-line. One of the little side threads that ran through the book, that I could relate to, was that the main character, Erin, always had a hymn running through her head. These weren't just the typical hymns that every LDS person grows up with. Some of the hymns were: "On This Day of Joy and Gladness," "Father, This Hour Has Been One of Joy," just to name a couple. At first I thought, "Yeah, sure. I consider myself fairly familiar with the hymnbook, but even I wouldn't think of those hymns. Besides, most members of the church that I know balk at an unfamiliar hymn, so they wouldn't be able to relate to these lesser-known messages." So it wasn't very believable to me that they would be running through her head. But it was explained when Erin's daughter mentioned that her grandmother had made her mother learn all the hymns in the hymnbook. That made me smile just because, again, it's so not-real that it was funny.Anyway, that's definitely a side note. But, along with the side note, I nearly cracked up laughing when, at the end of the book (sorry to give away the ending, tee-hee!), the hymn running through her head was not a hymn at all, but, well, now I can't remember what it was, but it made me smile.There were a couple of times when Erin was conversing with the detective who was assigned to the case, and the dialogue got pretty long. All that dialogue seemed to just be a way of leading the reader off-track by thinking up all kinds of outlandish possibilities of who the murderer could be. It was a good idea of how to do that, but some of the ideas were obviously off-track, and the dialogue got a bit tedious to follow.I liked how Erin was portrayed as an LDS woman who lived her religion, but religion was not a major theme of the book. She was just a decent person living life to the best of her ability. The book is definitely geared to an LDS audience, just because it mentions things like the hymns and visiting teaching, but the story itself is not revolving around the church and its doctrines. Her friends and her daughter's friends were not LDS, but they were her friends, and she didn't preach to them. She didn't sit around waiting for someone else to take care of her. She lived her life fully and completely. less

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