Death by Coffee (Bookstore Cafe Mystery, #1)
Alex Erickson
1 ratings • 1 reviews
Death by Coffee (Bookstore Cafe Mystery, #1)
Alex Erickson
1 ratings • 1 reviews
When Krissy Hancock and her best friend Vicki decide to open a bookstore café in their new town of Pine Hills, they decide to call it "Death by Coffee," after Krissy’s father’s most famous mystery novel. Little do they know how well the name fits… On their very first day of business, Brendon Lawyer huffily takes his coffee…to the grave. It seems he had a severe allergy to peanuts…but how could there have been nuts in his coffee? And who stole his emergency allergy medication? Fortunately, Krissy’s love of puzzles and mysteries leads her not only to Officer Paul Dalton, but also to many of her new neighbors, who aren’t terribly upset that the book is closed on Brendon. But one of them is a killer, and Krissy needs to read between the lies if she wants to save her new store—and live to see how this story ends…
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Do not read this book if you respect women and the LGBTQ+ community!
From beginning to end I kept thinking, oh come on it might get better.
But Omg it just kept getting worse. The amount of times the narrator talked about how much weight she would put on for eating an entire tub of ice cream basically every night, the flabby arms of the woman neighborhood gossip, and the way she seemed to ridicule all the women’s style or demeanor made me cringe so hard. I kept thinking ugh this book must have some internalized misogyny blah blah maybe it was released early 2000’s blah blah. I didn’t really look up the book cause I just don’t do that.
But then come to find out it was a man who wrote this?!
Disgusting.
And to villanize the bisexual in the end was like a double whammy.
Their are some other stereotypical things that really didn’t sit well. The main character is also annoying. Her cat has like so many issues. it seems like the author hates cats. Like yes sometimes cats can be mean but you cannot make me believe a cat pees on the floor and the bed, chews and spits out all its treats and food, throws up everything, and on top of that attacks the narrator multiple times. Just no way.
Not reading the other books.
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