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Death By Latte (2008)

by Linda Gerber(Favorite Author)

3.91 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

0142411183 (ISBN13: 9780142411186)

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

Puffin

series

Death By Mysteries

review 1: Being a teen is never easy, specially when your mother walked out on you and your father four years earlier with no explanation. Then you travel 2000 miles to see her and she immediately tells you that you have to leave, now. This is exactly what happened when Aphra Connolly travels to Seattle to find her missing mother. Natalie shuts down the long sought family reunion and starts on the drive to the airport. This is interrupted by a 'business call' that requires urgent attention. Aphra's departure is temporarily delayed. From this moment, their reunion takes a series of twists that could not have been anticipated. most definitely, not the normal mother-daughter relationship. Whatever happened to shopping together and choosing clothing. None of that for these two,... more more like espionage, guns and hitmen.Natalie is still sees Aphra as that young girl she left four years earlier. Aphra wants back that mother that she has imagined during that time. Neither of them are living up to the other expectations.While I did enjoy this fast moving story, I do feel that I was missing something by not having read Death by Bikini, the first book in the series. The follow-up to this one is Death by Denim.
review 2: Death by Latte by Linda Gerber begins with Aphra, the main character, booking a flight to see her mother whom she has not seen for four years. Aphra goes to Seattle to find her mother, but her welcome is not what she expected or hoped to have. Rather her mother is busy and is less than thrilled to see Aphra, so the twists and turns begin. I can't quite put my finger on why, but for some reason this book didn't work too well for me. Perhaps it is due to the mother's treatment of her own daughter. Perhaps it is due to an unexpected and seemingly (for me) unbelievable death of one of the character's. Or it might even be due to the plot, or lack thereof, itself. Aphra is a young teen, but I still find myself exasperated with her behavior or lack thereof. She is one of those people who does all those things that make me ask, "What is WRONG with you?" I don't hate the book, nor do I strongly dislike it, so I gave it 3 stars. I felt the plot was not very strong and, for me, the characters not all that believable. less

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