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Candy, Murder, and Just Desserts: Cozy Mystery with Recipes
- Cookie Berelli Cozy Mysteries, Book 2
- Narrated by: Guy Veryzer, Victoria Taylor
- Length: 7 hrs and 11 mins
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Summary
Cookie Berelli, Brooklyn-born smart-mouth, and plus-size owner of a dress design studio for full-figured women is back in this second mystery in the series.
Cookie's preparing for a spring Flaunt Your Fashion show, when she finds her head dress cutter dead in her design studio. It's up to Cookie, her dachshund rescue dog she named Sigmund Freud because he's always available to give her tips on what to wear and what candy to eat, and Rhonda, her best friend, to get into a whole lot of wacky situations and find the murderer before the bumbling detective on the case arrests Cookie.
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- Rabid Reader
- 10-06-23
Just not for me
This is the second book in the Cookie Berelli mystery series. I really wanted to like this book but found so many things irritating it was hard to truly enjoy it.
First, the good. This has a cute premise. Cookie is a plus-size fashion designer who is just getting started with her own fashion house and is preparing for the all important spring fashion show. She has her ever-present dachshund, Sigmund Freud, as a sidekick and her soon-to-be sister-in-law to assist her when her head cutter turns up dead. With the local police not taking the situation seriously, Cookie finds herself investigating her cutter’s death. The cast of characters is broad with several interesting subplots that add interest to the storyline.
Next, the bad. This book includes a number of recipes for various treats encountered in the story. These sound yummy, but they are presented in the middle of the narrative. They totally take one out of the story line and became very irritating. At first, I thought they might have been boxes in the printed book that did not translate well to audio. Then I realized that Cookie makes comments in the middle of several of the recipes. I got to the point I wanted to just scream every time one came up. Aside from the issues below the storyline and writing were good.
Next, I wanted to like Cookie, and some aspects of her character were nice, but I really could not get into her candy eating. She just did not resonate with me at all and I found her irritating. Part of this was the narration. This book has two narrators, Guy Veryzer and Victoria Taylor. I saw no reason to have a man as the primary narrator and it was grating to listen to him voice Cookie. He used a strong Brooklyn accent which was ok but it just did not work for me and I found it very irritating as well, although Guy’s intonation and affect were adequate. I think it gave Cookie this masculine voice that was not pleasant. I would have liked him under other circumstances. Victoria Taylor would have been a better choice to do the primary narration.
Overall, this book was just not for me and I will not bother with another in this series.
***I received a copy of this audiobook in exchange for my own, unbiased, review.***
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- VoraciousBookDragoness
- 10-12-21
Good
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- Julie
- 25-11-22
Murder or cook book
This book just wasn't for me, mainly because the author had so many recipes that I wasn't sure if I was listening to a cook book or a mystery. It also didn't help that the recipes popped up anywhere food was mentioned, it would have been better at the end of the book so the listener could skip it they wanted to. To be honest I turned out the recipes and then missed some of the story because I had stopped listening. It was just too bitty, why when confronting the killer do you stop to give out a recipe? The characters were like able enough but just lost the mystery to much for my liking with recipes, weddings and great detail about the clothes people wore. I know the main character was a fashion designer but not at the expense of the story.
When Cookie's head cutter is found stabbed with the award scissors he won the night before, she steps up to solve the murder. When she and her dachshund lives are threatened, she will stop at nothing to find the killer, even spend time with his weird family.
The narrator tried but it probably didn't help the story, as he kept emphasising words that didn't need it.
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- Mrs. C. J. Mchardy
- 11-03-23
A tasty cozy mystery
When Cookie Berelli finds her cutter dead she sets out to find the killer. She new he was unpopular, but between his strange family and the fact that no one liked him at all , it's proving harder than she thought. With the help of Sigmund Freud and her can do attitued will she win the day. The recipes in each chapter are wonderful. The narration is perfect
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