Cindy Stark
Author of Relentless
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Haunted Cookies (Cookie Corner, #2) 2 copies
Whispers (Argent Springs, #1) 2 copies
Tempted (Aspen, #7) 1 copy
Midlife or Death: Paranormal Women's Fiction Cozy Mystery (Sweet Mountain Witches Book 1) (2021) 1 copy
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- 60
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- Rating
- 3.1
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- 14
Sometimes it reads very much like a comedy but at other times it's dead serious and deals out really heavy emotions. This caused bad emotional whiplash and a kind of cognitive dissonance for me.
The entire plot is executed in a fundamentally silly way which undermines all the seriousness. As a consequence, I disliked reading the serious stuff because the surrounding goofy atmosphere invalidated it all somehow. I felt like the book disrespected the heavy feelings of its own cast and my own emotional investment with it.
I was so on board with the more serious tone that the realization of how much it would be subverted by the humor just made me lose the drive to continue.
That is not to say the humor is bad or anything. I actually enjoyed most of it a lot. It was cheeky and cute. I just couldn't handle both at the same time.
I think this is mostly a "me" problem.… (more)