Review: This Book Has It All!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 08 14, 2013
This is the third book in the Sadie Cooper series. This time Sadie & Hal travel to Bateman, Atwood's evil rival (think Hatfields & McCoys). The reason for this trip is two-fold: first it's a paying job for her fledgling PI business & secondly, she needs to put space between her & her ever growing feelings for old boyhood friend Luke. Sadie is hired to find out who is destroying huge prize-winning pumpkins. While there she & Hal discover a dead body & become involved in solving a sinister plot. Sadie plays the ditzy blonde to perfection while those around her have no idea how bright & cunning she is. Luke's gorgeous, but dumb, current girlfriend Vaslilssa (no it is not a typo - I still can't figure out how to pronounce it) provides loads of comic relief. I found myself laughing out loud every time Sadie even talks about Vaslilssa! You keep wanting to thump Luke upside the head for continuing the relationship with her. Granted the woman is gorgeous, but she eats like a linebacker! The author has you begging for Sadie & Luke to finally get together. I won't spoil the ending for you, but there is a nice little twist at the end making you pray that Ms. Bartal quickly writes & publishes book #4 soon! (Like next week, maybe???)Once I'd started this book I could not put it down! I highly recommend it. And while you're at it, read the first two also. You will not be disappointed. I mean how can you not laugh at Vaslilssa when she wins a box of Ding Dons (that she mistakenly calls Twinkies) on eBay & manages to eat the entire box in one sitting or goes on a road trip to try & chase down the last remaining McRib before McDonald's does away with them for the season!