Review: Juvenile and Scattered
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 10 2, 2013
**WARNING - SPOILER ALERTS INCLUDED IN THIS REVIEW**Dying for Dinner Rolls looked like a nice cozy read from the description.  Not too far into the book though I began to have my doubts.  The author seemed to put in a lot of unnecessary information.  The oddly named and overly stereotyped characters detracted from the story rather than adding color and flair.  Additionally, what appears to be the mystery aspect of the story, the murder of one character's father, is quickly overshadowed by yet another death.The story centers around a diverse group of friends.  When the group finds one of their members dead of an apparent suicide, I couldn't help thinking that I'm glad I don't have 'friends' like these.  Only one friend seemed terribly concerned or saddened by the death.  Despite signs to the contrary, most of them seemed content to shrug off any foul play and to just forget the incident.  In an odd and extremely truncated scene, another one of the group members is compelled to doubt the police force's finding of suicide as the cause of death.  One minute she was adamantly encouraging the concerned friend to just let things be and the next she was on board with it being suspicious and them needing to solve the mystery.I think the author just had a bit too much ambition with this book.  It felt like she wanted to cram as many 'colorful characters' and intriguing mysteries into one story as she possibly could.  Reducing the overly abundant character descriptions, the irritatingly glib back and forth banter between them, and one of the deaths, would have gone a long way towards making this a better, tighter story.As it stands though, I could only make it one third of the way through before completely losing patience and deleting it.