writers rant

Okay, I guess I'm free from the guideline not to say anything negative.
I'm feeling negative at the moment.

I'm just finishing (78%) a Kindle Cozy Fantasy (ghosts) Feline (LOTS of
cats) Mystery, "A Spirited Tail", Leighann Dobbs. It's got _all_ the
factors to make this kind of series book a runaway success! Not just
the aforementioned, but the detective is a middle-aged female bookstore
owner, with a misspent youth as a crime reporter, and a cop boyfriend
who won't tell her anything (or much, anyway) about his cases, with whom
she's occasionally frolicking in bed, but doesn't know him very well,
and wonders whether she's "falling for him". Oh, and her sister is the
Police Chief (who wants her OUT of Police Business), and her sidekick
experiments with herbal teas, occasionally with disastrous results, or
opposite results to those she intended, but is forever confident about
getting the personality alteration she wants, and sneaking them into
someone's tea without asking them whether they want their personality
altered. The protagonist also occasionally converses with ghosts, and
has two, Franklin Pierce and Robert Frost, regularly haunting her
bookshop. "Lincoln's Doctor's Dog" was a piker, with only three
sure-fire reader-attractants! (oh, there's also a bereaved Golden Retriever)

This detective, and the young cub cop, and an elderly woman who knew the
"mysterious stranger" (female) character way back when, can none of them
figure out why, in the course of fifty years, a woman might change her
surname! (Well, I might be maligning the elderly woman: she just says,
"A different name? How odd!"). Personally, I don't find it either odd
or inexplicable. The usual reason why women have different surnames
than those they had fifty years ago seems fairly obvious to me! Of
course, one of my cousins changed her surname five times in fifty years.
I myself wear a different name than I had at nineteen.

She uses the word "snuck" (which Mark Twain also used, but in his case
he was humorously pointing out the ignorance of the character speaking).

And the capstone of irritations: this detective has not Clue One about
the use of apostrophes!

Maybe I should put the above, suitably edited, on Amazon.com as a review.



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