Kate Carlisle
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Kate Carlisle is a Golden Heart and Daphne du Maurier Award winning author. She is the author of the Bibliophile Mystery Ser. (Bowker Author Biography)
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She's Having the Boss's Baby | Unfinished Business | More Than Perfect | An After-Hours Affair | Pretend Mistress, Bona… (2016) 1 exemplaar
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"Dating Game" chaperone - Organisaties
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Romance Writers of America - Prijzen en onderscheidingen
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Daphne du Maurier Award
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First of all, Brooklyn's independent character was something I enjoyed, even if she was somewhat whiny throughout the books. I mean her life got upended numerous times because she happened to come across dead bodies and it was natural that she would become a suspect, so I enjoyed those interactions she had with police officers and other people as she tried to solve the mysteries. Now, she just has Derek make a phone call and everything is good as he "pulls his magic strings" and suddenly, everything is taken care of. This despite the fact that he was one of the most suspicious people at the beginning. I get they are married now and I get that he would support her, but I would like to see them be a bit more suspicious of those around them.
The plot itself was so thin you can't even see the wire in the trees. For the first two thirds of the book, there were a lot of discussions about the missing books and how they were related to each other, but honestly, not big mystery came out of them simply because there was little to no investigation. And I don't necessarily need a murder in these books, just a good mystery, but neither was actually interesting. Both just seemed thrown into a plot that was weak, at best. Motives didn't make sense, the behaviour of certain characters made no sense, plot points were 'developed' and then discarded for no reason that I could see, so overall it was just a big mess. And pages of descriptions of the food. Ugh!
Verdict
The Twelve Books of Christmas was my least favourite entry in this series, and I was so disappointed over the plot and character development as well as the ending. It was a mish-mash of stuff thrown together in order to give the author an excuse to send Brooklyn and Derek to Scotland over the holidays, one of the only things I liked about the book. Unfortunately, this series has been going downhill for a few books now. I will probably give it one last shot, but after that, if it doesn't go back to the magic of the earlier books, I may have to call it quits.… (meer)