Brenda H. (booksinvt) -
Helpful Score: 3
Triple Chocolate Cheesecake Murder is the twenty-seventh installment in the Hannah Swensen Mystery series set in Lake Eden and featuring Cookie Jar owner, Hannah Swensen. This time Hannah's sister Andrea has a beef with Mayor Bascomb over the way he's been treating her husband, Bill. A verbal argument ends with Andrea slapping the Mayor and him toppling over backward in his chair. Feeling guilty Andrea later returns to the Mayor's office with one of Hannah's cheesecakes as a peace offering and finds the Mayor dead. Of course, she now becomes the prime suspect and Hannah and company are faced with the challenge of clearing her name.
Sadly this series is turning into a complete train wreck that you can't help stopping to gawk at. I've read every book in the series and each time think to myself, "wow, these books can't get any worse so I'm finished with the series" but of course, a new one comes out and I have to pick it up and regret having done so almost immediately.
There were just so many things wrong with this addition to the series I'm not sure where to start. As usual the majority of the book was recipes with the author's "helpful hints" so the actual story maybe makes up 1/4 of the book. I would almost be willing to bet that at least once a page someone is either making coffee or drinking coffee - I can't imagine how the characters aren't constantly in the bathroom or bouncing off the walls. To make matters even worse, Hannah has now developed an inner monologue between her good angel and bad angel and we have to be subjected to their constant bickering. Oh and did I mention my biggest pet peeve? Why is it that every single character has to constantly call the person they are talking to by their formal name? If Hannah and Norm are the only two in the room, I can't understand why they both have to start or end every sentence with each other's names - I'm pretty sure they both know who they are talking to and readers are certainly capable of following the simple dialogue.
Sadly this series is turning into a complete train wreck that you can't help stopping to gawk at. I've read every book in the series and each time think to myself, "wow, these books can't get any worse so I'm finished with the series" but of course, a new one comes out and I have to pick it up and regret having done so almost immediately.
There were just so many things wrong with this addition to the series I'm not sure where to start. As usual the majority of the book was recipes with the author's "helpful hints" so the actual story maybe makes up 1/4 of the book. I would almost be willing to bet that at least once a page someone is either making coffee or drinking coffee - I can't imagine how the characters aren't constantly in the bathroom or bouncing off the walls. To make matters even worse, Hannah has now developed an inner monologue between her good angel and bad angel and we have to be subjected to their constant bickering. Oh and did I mention my biggest pet peeve? Why is it that every single character has to constantly call the person they are talking to by their formal name? If Hannah and Norm are the only two in the room, I can't understand why they both have to start or end every sentence with each other's names - I'm pretty sure they both know who they are talking to and readers are certainly capable of following the simple dialogue.
