Pallas Poppies

We get to follow a group of women working at the Grand Hotel in Stockholm, all under the leadership of Mrs. Skogh. The year is 1901 and things are different, especially for women.

There is a feel good feeling in the book but, everything just chugs along smoothly. Even something bad happens there no really problem that needs to be solved, no big obstacles that they need to figure out, no consequences… It does make things dull.

Feels like we are back to normal after book 16 which was very dark. Normally I want mystery books to be about mystery and the love life of characters are dull. But here I want to know what all the characters are up to. A little slow on that but I assume next book will pick up on a lot of that.

Feels like we are back to normal after book 16 which was very dark. Normally I want mystery books to be about mystery and the love life of characters are dull. But here I want to know what all the characters are up to. A little slow on that but I assume next book will pick up on a lot of that.

Jenny is 77 and feels she hasn’t accomplished enough in life, she has a “silly” dream to the popular baking show. On a whim she applies and she gets on the show, it starts to stir up some old memories, a secret.

I didn’t really get this. Everything just chugs along, nothing really happens. Nothing is thrown Jenny’s way, no big hurdles. And there are other characters in here but it feels like she never really interacts with them, everything feels very superficial.

I would have loved a book about a woman doing something for herself, maybe some ageist people standing in her way and she saves the day because of her age and experience.

Jenny is 77 and feels she hasn’t accomplished enough in life, she has a “silly” dream to the popular baking show. On a whim she applies and she gets on the show, it starts to stir up some old memories, a secret.

I didn’t really get this. Everything just chugs along, nothing really happens. Nothing is thrown Jenny’s way, no big hurdles. And there are other characters in here but it feels like she never really interacts with them, everything feels very superficial.

I would have loved a book about a woman doing something for herself, maybe some ageist people standing in her way and she saves the day because of her age and experience.

Lila is moving back home to her small town to help her auntie with the family restaurant and get away from her failed relationship. Her former high school sweetheart has turned into a nasty food blogger and while at her restaurant he dies right in front of her, face down in the food. Such bad table manners.

Didn’t love this, felt that some proper sleuthing was missing and it was a little slow. And there’s a cute dachshund on the cover but the dog is barely in the story, why write a dog into the story if it’s not actually in the story? Felt robbed. But there were some things I liked so I might give the second book a chance.

Lila is moving back home to her small town to help her auntie with the family restaurant and get away from her failed relationship. Her former high school sweetheart has turned into a nasty food blogger and while at her restaurant he dies right in front of her, face down in the food. Such bad table manners.

Didn’t love this, felt that some proper sleuthing was missing and it was a little slow. And there’s a cute dachshund on the cover but the dog is barely in the story, why write a dog into the story if it’s not actually in the story? Felt robbed. But there were some things I liked so I might give the second book a chance.

Danika is forced to move back home to Long Island for reasons I can’t remember to take over her uncles malt shop. She runs into her old high school boyfriend that broke her heart on prom and is confronted quickly by his wife, so of course she later stumbles over the wife dead in the malt shop…

This was not for me, it read too juvenile for me. She’s 25 but felt like she was a lot younger than that, too stuck up on her ex and it was a little dull. However, there was a little twist to a common scene in a cozy that I really liked.

So you try to be cool and tip a dancer at a club only for them to accidentally kick you in the face but it actually works out and you leave together to head for their place only to wake up with the cops knocking on the door and the guy is missing.

Fun even if I didn’t always buy their reasoning for not going to the cops.

I like Hayden and his new friends and I’ll give the second book a try.

So you try to be cool and tip a dancer at a club only for them to accidentally kick you in the face but it actually works out and you leave together to head for their place only to wake up with the cops knocking on the door and the guy is missing.

Fun even if I didn’t always buy their reasoning for not going to the cops.

I like Hayden and his new friends and I’ll give the second book a try.

Well isn’t that convenient, oh what a coincident…

Where do I start, dull characters, everything feels very rushed and there are no twists or turns. No shocking reveals, no brilliant detectives working it out, no amature sleuth… this is dull and I will never read a book by this author again. Seriously, why is she popular? This was so dull.

There’s just stuff happening in a neat convenient order and no obstacles for anyone.

Well isn’t that convenient, oh what a coincident…

Where do I start, dull characters, everything feels very rushed and there are no twists or turns. No shocking reveals, no brilliant detectives working it out, no amature sleuth… this is dull and I will never read a book by this author again. Seriously, why is she popular? This was so dull.

There’s just stuff happening in a neat convenient order and no obstacles for anyone.

Swedish police in the 1920’s really were a bunch of incompetent wankers. So Nisse and Ellen are back and we are spared donkey boy and Einstein this time.

Nils finds a dead man in the waters outside of Göteborg and it takes him to an old quarantine hospital on an island where things are not what they seem.

I preferred Ellen in the first book but I think the real Ellen will be back in the third book which I will read. Nils showed very little personality in this one. You could have turned this up a bit and made it full blown horror but I’m glad she didn’t because it’s starting to get dark early.

Swedish police in the 1920’s really were a bunch of incompetent wankers. So Nisse and Ellen are back and we are spared donkey boy and Einstein this time.

Nils finds a dead man in the waters outside of Göteborg and it takes him to an old quarantine hospital on an island where things are not what they seem.

I preferred Ellen in the first book but I think the real Ellen will be back in the third book which I will read. Nils showed very little personality in this one. You could have turned this up a bit and made it full blown horror but I’m glad she didn’t because it’s starting to get dark early.

Hugo Lind is off on an adventure, part of his dead wife’s wish for him so off to Italy he is… and then after almost 300 pages, a death!

They do the discovery of the body right away and then a “Two Days Later” but we are then reading a tourist guide book about Capri, not much of a murder mystery. Too darn slow, nope. But I don’t mind going to Italy. This could easily be rewritten to a romance/feel good about a man learning how to love again, a lot more work if you want this to be a decent mystery.

Hugo Lind is off on an adventure, part of his dead wife’s wish for him so off to Italy he is… and then after almost 300 pages, a death!

They do the discovery of the body right away and then a “Two Days Later” but we are then reading a tourist guide book about Capri, not much of a murder mystery. Too darn slow, nope. But I don’t mind going to Italy. This could easily be rewritten to a romance/feel good about a man learning how to love again, a lot more work if you want this to be a decent mystery.

I don’t know. I liked the first book because of the humor. I’m missing the humor but I will finish off the books so I know what happens but did I enjoy this? Not really.