Lavender’s Blue by Jennifer Crusie & Bob Mayer
Liz Danger has returned home after fifteen years to deliver a giant teddy bear for her mother’s birthday (color: Guilt Red) when a cop with a great ass picks her up for speeding, fixes the missing lug nuts on her back wheel, pulls her out of a ditch, doesn’t give her a ticket, and helps her avoid her family.
Jennifer Crusie is one of my favorite authors, but it has been years since she released a book…until Lavender’s Blue. When I saw it in my recommended books, I excitedly put in a reservation request at the library. After weeks of waiting, it was finally my turn.
And let me just say: It was not worth the wait.
The book was hella disappointing. It was not engaging at all and had none of the spark from the authors’ previous collabs. There was really no mystery until about 60% of the way through the book, and the whodunit was about as obvious as the sun. And to top it all off, the book was poorly edited to boot (if it was even edited at all). As an indie author, my grammar has to be damn near perfect, or I get negative reviews; to see a trad pubbed author get away with appallingly bad proofreading is infuriating.
Bottom line, I doubt I’ll continue the series.
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2.3Overall Score
Lavender's Blue by Jennifer Crusie & Bob Mayer
From the NY Times Bestselling duo that wrote Agnes and the Hitman, the first book in the Liz Danger series.