Herrbach Stephanie itibaren Khideshlebi, Georgia

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04/28/2024

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2018-04-06 21:41

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3¼ stars - The Long Quiche Goodnight is about Charlotte, who is taking over her grandparents’ cheese store with her cousin Matthew, whose wife left him and their twin daughters. Following a grand opening party at the store, one of the town’s wealthiest men, and husband of Charlotte’s grandmother’s biggest rival for town mayor, is found dead. Charlotte’s grandmother, holding the murder weapon with blood on her hands denies any involvement and though there isn’t a lot of evidence that she committed the murder, she is placed under house arrest. This doesn’t sit well with Charlotte’s grandmother, who’s also in charge of the town’s annual eclectic ballet, so Charlotte decides she has to do whatever she can to help prove her grandmother’s innocence. Other characters in the book include Charlotte’s best friend, Meredith, who seems to be avoiding Charlotte following the murder, her employee, Rebecca, a former member of the Amish community with an addiction to crime shows, a hot artisanal cheese supplier named Jordan (who may or may not have secrets of his own) and several other business owners in the community. The Long Quiche Goodnight didn’t have a crazy twist, shocking ending, but it was a good read. It seems like in a lot of these cozy mysteries that the sheriff or cop in charge is less than capable or just don’t pick up on clues. I liked that in this book, Chief Urso, though he does end up needing Charlotte’s help/tips, is actually competent. On a side note, I’m a vegan and I think cheese is just as bad as meat. However, I’m also honest enough to admit that while I don’t miss meat, eggs or milk in the least, cheese is another story and, if I weren’t a vegan, I would’ve been finishing this book with a plate of cheeses in front of me. Aames did a really good job of bringing the cheese shop and wine annex to life with descriptions of different cheeses, dishes and wines. Though there is some room for improvement in terms of character development (at times Charlotte seemed to think that something obvious was a big "A-ha!" moment and some of the secondary characters were less than memorable), which isn't unexpected for the first book in a series and will hopefully improve, I figured I would eventually pick up the sequel. A little tidbit at the end about one of the characters piqued my interest a bit more and pretty much assured I’ll be reading Lost and Fondue.

2018-04-07 00:41

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In this, the 8th book of 14 in the Fu Manchu series, the good doctor hops "over the pond" and sets his nefarious sights on no less a prize than the conquest of the United States! This book marks yet another departure in the Fu Manchu series: It is the longest of the books, the most detailed, possibly the best written, takes place in the U.S. for the first time, and is the most political book in the series thus far. In this one, the Fu-man, through "the League of Good Americans," backs a presidential candidate who will, in time, become his puppet dictator. Our old friend Sir Nayland Smith is back, trying to stop this conquest; he is aided by Federal agent Mark Hepburn. For the first time in the series, Dr. Petrie does not make even a token appearance. This book features the typical fast pacing and grotesque action that have become familiar at this point in the series. We encounter numerous killings with poisonous spiders, a raid on a NYC Chinatown catacomb lair, a "Manchurian Candidate"-style assassination of a presidential hopeful (almost 30 years before that classic movie), a boat chase down the Niagara rapids, and much more. As I said, there is a great wealth of detail and incident in this installment. Fu, at one point, even takes time out of his busy agenda to operate on a dying, diphtheritic boy; just Sax Rohmer's way of showing us that there is some good in the old doctor, after all. I did have some minor problems with this Fu installment, however, good as it is. There really is no reason for there to be two characters named Wu Chang; this just leads to confusion for the reader! Also, at one point in the book, Fu Manchu tries to brainwash Hepburn from a hotel window one floor below where Hepburn's room is. A few pages later, it is said that Fu was TWO floors below! Also, the description of Wu King's underground Chinatown lair was, for me anyway, a bit hard to follow. But all in all, this is a mighty fun and involving book. And I just love the line that Fu Manchu delivers to Nayland Smith, right before attempting to blow him up with that bomb on top of the skyscraper (remember that this line comes after eight books' worth of chases and incredible adventure): "Our association, if at times tedious, has never been dishonorable."

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