Author: Lynn Cahoon
Published: June 5th 2018 by Lyrical Underground
Format: eBook, 77 pages
Genre: Cozy Mystery
Source: My thanks to Netgalley and the Publisher for an opportunity to read an advanced copy of this book.
Series: A Tourist Trap #9.25
I was really hoping that authors were past the requisite novellas that were so rampant for the last couple of years. I understand that they have commitments to their publishers and other series that need their time, but unless a short snippet is filling in a blank from the previous book, it does not need to exist. If the story is burning a hole, and needs to be told, make it the main plot of the next book. They should not put something out there solely for the sake of filling a publisher’s requirement.
Rockets’ Dead Glare is just a small single narrative of the body of the local fire inspector found in a burned out building. The story, and the reason behind the death and its discover, could have been incorporated into another full-length book as a subplot. It could have gone deeper and been the main plot with something else thrown in on the side, but that was not the choice that Lynne Cahoon made and therefore letting down her readers.
Unless you are a stickler for reading every book in a series, I would suggest that you skip this bit and wait until the next full-length book is published since Rockets’ Dead Glare adds nothing to either the relationships of or the tourist town of South Cove.
Rockets’ Dead Glare is just a small single narrative of the body of the local fire inspector found in a burned out building. The story, and the reason behind the death and its discover, could have been incorporated into another full-length book as a subplot. It could have gone deeper and been the main plot with something else thrown in on the side, but that was not the choice that Lynne Cahoon made and therefore letting down her readers.
Unless you are a stickler for reading every book in a series, I would suggest that you skip this bit and wait until the next full-length book is published since Rockets’ Dead Glare adds nothing to either the relationships of or the tourist town of South Cove.
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