Review: Really Bad
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 08 16, 2013
****WARNING - SPOILERS INCLUDED****I was hoping to like this book, and to have found another series to enjoy.  This wasn't the case though.  The story is absolutely ridiculous.  It reads like a badly written YA book.The reader is asked to believe that all of a sudden, upon first sight of a hunky police detective, the tale's protagonist, Doris, is magically over the grief she feels over the death of her husband.We are then 'treated' to a vomit inducing account of 'Insta-love' at its finest.  No matter that two murders have occurred locally, one of which is her assistant from the flower shop she owns and operates, our heroine can be found constantly mooning around over said stud muffin cop.For some reason, Doris feels it is her duty to 'investigate' the murders.  Of course, in true idiot stereotype, she withholds a written death threat made against her because she doesn't want to appear 'hysterical' in front of the police.  Never mind that she has a 5 year old son who could also be in danger; she figures she is capable of handling the case.Detective Dreamboat succumbs to the Insta-love as readily as Doris, behaving in a way that no police officer worth half a darn would.  After only meeting briefly twice before, he leaves the scene of a third murder to rush over to Doris' shop to see if she is okay.  Upon her opening the door to him, he takes her in his manly arms and squeezes her tightly, relieved that she is safe.  Tra-la-la!!  The Love Spell is well and truly cast ~ *blissful sigh*When she asks him about the most recent murder he tells her it was reported by "...Emmett somebody..."  Oh, you mean the same Emmett that found the body of her assistant and whom he had told her about very recently?The writing is stellar...The rest of this book is a mishmash of tiresome and sappy inner dialogue, idiotic risk taking on the part of a widowed single mother...with no apparent regard for her child, and the inevitable happy ending tied up in a neat little bow.Needless to say, this will be the only book in the series I will read.