#29

#29 is Spoiled Rotten by Mary Jackman a Liz Walker Mystery ~ #1.  I don't think I'll be reading #2.  This is my first digital library checkout.  {SERIOUSLY, you can check out a book ONLINE ~ and it mysteriously shows up on my Kindle.  Poof.  It's there.  I wonder what happens after 21 days.  Does it just poof and vanish? or do I get fines until I return it?  I won't find out with this one because I'll be returning it...but I wonder.  I know I shouldn't be so amazed at this technology.  But, truly, I do not understand it.  It seems like magic...maybe even black magic.}
Spoiled Rotten is about Liz and her restaurant and a murder or 3.  It lacks character development.  Really, the guy who rents her a room just decides to drive her to her next destination and then comes to visit a week later?  Maybe it's just me, but I didn't get the immediate friendship connection.   "They kiss, but they both know they'll just be friends."  How do they know that?  And after meeting once, they detective is madly in love...but nothing comes of it, we learn at the end, because his wife just didn't understand.  How is there all of a sudden a WIFE & Liz takes it so nonchalantly? It's also full of grammatical mistakes and sentence fragments.  Like she bypassed the editor all together.  I did not make note of them all, because it was so bad, I almost stopped reading.
I do have two quotes:
page 11 ~ Lord of the dingalings  {What a GREAT phrase!}
page 102 ~ he was oddly consistent and consistently odd.

fl: At 8:00 a.m. my day was well under way.  ll: I had a bowl of congnac in front of me soon to be consumed and was contentedly watching the happy customers while jazz murmured softly in the background and the cat was playing with a ....CHEQUE, PLEASE!