Book #124 |
Book: Peppermint Cookie Murder | Author: Trixie Silvertale | |
| Source: Free BookBub download Format: Kindle |
Pages: 238 | Duration: 12/12/25 – 12/12/25 (1 day) | |
| Rating: ★★☆☆☆ | Genres: fiction, cozy mystery, Christmas, holiday, fantasy, paranormal | ||
| 📕10-word summary: Santa’s daughter leaves the North Pole to open a bakery. 🖌6-word review: Think of synonyms for preposterous. Apply. |
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| 💭A humorous quote: “Have you tried talking to the gals at the bingo club? That group drinks a lot during bingo. And there’s nothing like alcohol to pry the truth from someone’s lips.” | |||
| 🎓Some new-to-me words: sluice, Dolomites in Carezza, Val d’Ega | |||
| Description:* Cindy Claus is excited to open her own bakery. She’s determined to pursue her passion and have her holiday treats prove she’s more than a Yuletide heir. But before she can whisk up a success, her roommate is murdered and Cindy is the prime suspect. With finding the real killer the only way to beat the rap, Cindy relies on the kindness of strangers and her father’s trusted arctic fox. But without a recipe for success in the unfamiliar human world, grilling the wrong suspects could put her behind bars. Can Cindy sift out the clues before she’s done and dusted?*From goodreads.com’s synopsis. | |||
| Thoughts: I’m glad I didn’t pay money for this book. So much to dislike. Santa’s daughter, Cindy Claus, who is 114 years old finally tells her father (Santa, who is a little over 1000 years old and Mrs. Claus is rumored to be nearly 2,000 years old) that she’s not interested in taking over “the business” when he retires. Her parents agree to let her go to a place called Silver Shoals to open a bakery. In “the human world,” she doesn’t know a lot of things, such as what money is, and she doesn’t understand metaphors, similes, aphorisms, exaggerations, or puns, which the author mostly uses as a device to show you how she responds to the people in this little town using them incessantly. But don’t worry, she has her family pet from the North Pole with her, who is an artic fox that passes as a dog in the human world, although he has to remember not to speak to her, or her to him, in front of other people. That’s the bad news, the good news being that he explains all of the townspeople’s figurative language to her, because of course, he understands them. 🙄 Three other things: 1) Considering the name of the book, neither a peppermint cookie nor a murder had appeared yet at 43% into the book, 2) Cindy used a lot of stoopid ejaculations, “Oh reindeer poop!” “Icicles!” and “Blizzards!” to name a few, and 3) just when I thought it couldn’t get any worse, the word conspiratorially showed up. Numbing frost! I can’t not recommend this book enough. | |||
See the rest of the books I’ve read in 2025 and previous years: 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019.
