Review: A Matter of Taste
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 05 1, 2012
This is the second book by the author which I have read. I can see where another person could easily rate it higher or where I might have rated it more highly were this the first that I had read. This is one of a series of books by a variety of authors which are Christian Romantic Mysteries. Of these components, the last, it seems to me, is simply the motor to run the first two which are the main focus of the story. To this has to be added the fact that the setting is a very small town in which social interrelationships and law enforcement are far different than those that exist in the more urbanized environment. The heroine, a 35 year old virgin, has a seven year relationship with a 37 year old man; the relationship has, if I understand the meaning of the explanation, that others should understand what they have not done, knowing what their standards are, never been consummated. Understandably, there are problems between them, despite  our acceptance that they are in love. This is the Romantic element. The Christian element is pervasive, not only through establishing the context of behavior for both heroine and her man-friend but in the significance of Church going for both (and their segment of the community) but in  the continuing reference to  prayers for guidance on most affairs, whether or the heart, or of other major or minor, sometimes, very minor problems the individuals confront. For mystery, we have the question of whether the death from allergic reaction, which occurred in the heroines store, was the accident the coroner adjudged, or deliberate murder; if murder, who dun it.I should think many readers will find this and other books in the series entertaining and understandable in behavioral terms. Others will find the social climate a bit off-putting. About all I can do is try to give an objective more than an evaluative judgment.