Purring Around the Christmas Tree

Cute and festive cover on this one. Great use of graphics that represent the story well. Good composition and OK title work.

The first 50% or so of this one was really good. Then certain characters started to grate on my last nerve. Jake became a huge jerk. Jessie became an even BIGGER b!tch, and Stan turned into a self-righteous know it all. How this woman even ran a business is beyond me since she basically would only spend like five minutes at a time there before she was off sticking her nose into someone else's business again.



On the positive side of things, I thought the book was well written and paced. The mystery kept me turning the pages and guessing right up until the end. I loved the festive small town feel (finally a Christmas themed mystery that is actually Christmassy.) There were a lot of interesting secondary characters. So many in fact that I felt a bit lost at times about who was connected to who. But that is probably more because I haven't read any of the other books in this series.

So ya, a little bit of a mixed bag with this one. But overall it was an enjoyable way to spend an afternoon.