Review: Not Buyin' It
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 02 13, 2012
Nope, I don't buy the premise of this book at all. I don't believe that a young widow would pour every cent of her husband's insurance policy into the inn, not setting aside anything for her son's future, all so that she doesn't have to "leave him to go out to work" eight hours a day. Like running an inn isn't more than an-eight-hour-a-day job? See for yourself how many times she had to count on either family OR GUESTS to watch out for the boy during the short period of time covered by the book.I also think the changes she made to the existing inn would in real life cost way more than the insurance policy anyway. And unlike many of the reviewers, I think the rooms and the furnishings in the rooms are just silly. A bed that looks like a car that uses an optical illusion to be appear to be floating above the floor? For adults? Really?? Installing a 2-way mirror to the dining room without informing the guests that they could be under scrutiny at any time?? And don't get me started on the name of the inn. Way too cutesy.The mystery was simplistic. Without giving the murderer's name away, I can't explain how I knew who it was --but I knew within a couple of pages of the discovery of the first murder. And there were mistakes that really should have been caught before publication. I'm still trying to figure out if the innkeeper's husband has been dead 11 months or 18 months. Even if the editor should have caught it but didn't, why couldn't the author get that straight in the first place?I'm not buyin' the premise of this book and I'm not buying the second book in the series, that's for sure!