Chocolate Chip Cookie Murder

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Review #1

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I have a rule that once I start a book, I must finish it. I’m breaking my rule. I simply cannot finish. I am 52 pages in. The writing reminds me of when I’d review my son’s middle school homework assignments with a word count requirement. I’m fairly certain the theasurus feature on this author’s computer was used heavily. The descriptions are silly. There are descriptions of things that don’t need descriptions (“lemons that had been washed until any germs courageous enough to light on their surface had fled in terror”). The main character, Hannah, is quite unlikeable. She tells one character that he’s getting a stomach roll. Hannah’s mother badgers her with suggestions of men to date – Hannah tells one (a police officer, who gave a speeding ticket to Hannah’s mother) something along the lines of “one good thing came out of that ticket – she stopped trying to fix me up with you”. A LEO, her brother-in-law, asks her, a common citizen, to assist in a murder investigation. She makes one character, Rhonda, sound tacky, fat, and very old, and goes on to think that Rhonda must be pushing fifty. In half a page she insulted Rhonda’s clothing, makeup, hair, and intelligence (Hannah makes a suggestion that if Rhonda tells anyone of their discussion about the murder, the killer may go after her, Rhonda, too). Hannah dumpster dives for evidence and stores it in plastic bags found in the same dumpster. I’m pretty sure chain of custody and integrity of that evidence matters in homicide investigations. I am a Bosch and Reacher reader and was excited to find a new series that had a female character (surprisingly, there are around two dozen books with this character) but it appears my search will have to continue. I know that I will not be able to develop a fondness of such a snarky main character.

Review #2

Chocolate Chip Cookie Murder series Hannah Swensen

Alright, I usually don’t like to write negative reviews, but it actually irritates me that somehow these books are popular enough to have warranted Joanne Fluke writing so many and, presumably, bringing home so much money in the process.

The writing is surprisingly bad. And I’m not a harsh critic. A lot of other books that people frequently trash (even Twilight), I’ve defended. But I was so bored I had to force myself to finish this one. And it’s a murder mystery, of all things (though, to be fair, I knew who the killer was from the movie).

Then there’s the subtly offensive things (like Hannah griping about how she can’t find her favorite brand of notebook from childhood with an Indian chief’s face on it because it’s probably seen as politically incorrect now, the protracted fat-shaming of a perfectly nice character and the rather insensitive portrayal of another character’s abuse by her husband. Hannah and her love interest, Mike — who’s not introduced until WAY too late in the book — of course give the lip service, “What a creep. That makes me so mad,” response. But Hannah is also rather harsh with the victim, both in her behavior and her internal monologue). I’m hardly the first person to call for political correctness in most cases, but let’s just say I’m not surprised this book was written in the ’90s by a woman who was already middle-aged at the time.

Speaking of Mike, the romance is God-awful. Seriously. There is absolutely NO chemistry/connection between Mike and Hannah. We’re just told that he’s handsome in very cliched ways (rugged, tall, sparkling blue eyes, etc.), and then there’s magically this notion that they’re love interests. Show, don’t tell, you know? And we’re also not privy to the reason Mike would be so smitten by Hannah, seeing as she’s kind of unpleasant and is supposed to be completely average-looking as well. It’s just really transparent wish-fulfillment, to make someone so hunky be enamored with someone like Hannah. Though, in her defense, he’s boring as hell. Just hot and boring.

Also, what the bleep does the victim being found with a bag of Hannah’s cookies have to do with anything? Why mention it at all, let alone as a supposedly tantalizing plot point on the back cover? This just seems like a weird, forced attempt to connect her profession to her amateur sleuthing — or to trick potential readers into buying the book because it sounds more juicy than it actually is. The cookies don’t end up implicating her as a suspect even for a moment, and it’s never mentioned again after the discovery of the body. What?

I’m not at all surprised that Fluke apparently only wrote this book because she herself was a baker and, for whatever reason, someone decided she should write a novel that incorporated her recipes. I’ve read much better fan fiction. I only read this in the first place because I fell in love with the movie series on Hallmark. Since you always hear people bemoaning how the book was so much better than the movie, I figured that would be the case here. Not by a long shot. So glad I only bought two of the books (currently struggling to get through the second, but keep being pulled away by the much better Fixer Upper Mystery series) instead of getting the whole series at once so I could binge-read.

I give two stars instead of one because there at least were a few humorous or generally entertaining moments, and, to be fair, I might have been surprised by the killer’s identity if I hadn’t already known it from the movie. And, even though I doubt I will ever use them, it does come with recipes. For that reason, rather than getting rid of it, I’ve relegated this book to my cook-book collection in the kitchen. But not a hallowed spot on the bookshelf, where I keep works of fiction I actually want to sit down and spend an extended amount of time with.

Review #3

Audiobook Chocolate Chip Cookie Murder by Joanne Fluke

This is the first book in the long running Hannah Swensen mystery series and introduces us to the characters in the small town where Hannah lives, Lake Eden in Minnesota. Hannah runs a popular shop, The Cookie Jar, and works with her assistant Lisa Herman. Hannah’s sister Andrea is married to Deputy Sheriff Bill Todd, who is aiming to be promoted to detective and Hannah’s mother takes every opportunity to find a suitable husband for her and interfere in her life. One morning, Hannah discovers the body of the dairy delivery man shot dead in his van – Ron la Salle was a local football hero, who seemed to be without an enemy in the world. Immediately, Hannah throws herself into helping her brother in law, Bill, solve the mystery and gain his promotion.

There are a lot of plus points to this series – the author has given Hannah some human traits, such as being slightly caustic and unfeeling at times, rather than being the usual paragon of perfection shown in these types of cozy mysteries. This makes her seem more realistic, as do the family and friends she is surrounded with, which flesh out her character. On the minus side there is the other staple of such cozy books – a pet with seemingly human feelings, in this case a huge cat called Moishe, which the author gives far too much time writing about. Also, the fact that Hannah seems to follow up leads which, to the reader, seem obvious and yet she always seems to reach before Bill gets there. Of course, this leads to the question of why Bill would allow his sister in law so much information about a case and I also found myself less than totally convinced about the therapeutic uses of cookies in all emergencies.

Saying all that, this is a fairly typical mystery with the added interest of cookie recipes at the end of chapters and a bonus novella at the end of the book, “Candy for Christmas”, which is set shortly after this book and deals with the story of a teenage runaway hiding in the shop. Along with the mystery there is a hint of romance to come, with Hannah having two possible suitors – local dentist Norman or the mysterious and handsome new detective from Minneapolis, Mike Kingston, who has a tragic past. If you like romantic cozy mysteries, you will probably enjoy this and the first book is always a good place to start. The second book in the series is  Strawberry Shortcake Murder: Hannah Swensen Mystery Series, Book 2 .

Review #4

Audio Chocolate Chip Cookie Murder narrated by Suzanne Toren

But could be better to read. Perhaps the next in the series will be tastier. We have a baker in small town America who solves a murder for her prettier sister’s husband.. Nice detail of the town, inhabitants and family members. Our heroine sleuth, Hannah, considers herself plain but by the end of the story is revealed as a gorgeous butterfly. Hmmm! This story has no wild car chases, gore or shootouts. If you want those read elsewhere. In fact at first I found the story downright pedestrian, not to mention dull. But I respect writing and persevered until I got the writer’s rhythm and then I quite enjoyed it. Book includes recipes I want to try and did enough to make me give the next one a read.

Review #5

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A murder mystery with a selection of cookie recipes mixed in at the end of some chapters. I found this a bit distracting as it stopped the flow of the story. One minute you are looking for clues the next its how long to leave a dough to settle for. I also found the characters a bit confusing. It was difficult to gauge their ages which made it difficult to relate to them. Halfway through the book I realised that I had forgotten who the victim was. Then I noticed that so had the town. No one seemed to miss him. Oh dear, someone has died. How sad. Never mind, lets eat cookies.

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