by Kerry Greenwood
This was a bit of a weird reading experience for me. I liked the characters and the mysteries and the descriptions of the food and the goings-on in Corinna’s bakery, and yet I kind of hated the writing style. It’s in first person with occasional stream-of-consciousness-esque shifting verb tenses whi...
Corinna is a baker who ends up getting sucked into a mystery when a herion junkie ODes on the grate across from her bakery. Interesting book..not sure if I'll continue the series.
This book was a lot of fun. I've read 4 or 5 of Greenwood's Phryne Fisher series, and enjoyed them as well - Corinna Chapman was a very different sort of main character. Fisher is pretty much perfect - drop dead gorgeous, rich, can do anything, almost like a cartoon heroine - not a problem, fun rea...
I still don't know what I think of this story. I read it all, relatively quickly.With each press on the Kindle, I wondered why I was still reading it, but read it I did.I think it was a romance. Well, "I love yous" were exchanged.I think there was a mystery, people died and people almost died and ...
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Earthly Delights is the first in contemporary series by Kerry Greenwood, author of the popular Phryne Fisher series. This one is set in modern Melbourne and our heroine is a chubby baker named Corinna Chapman. Corinna used to be a CPA but ditched her job (and her husband) to pursue her love of bakin...
Cosy mysteries don't sit well with pop culture references. Or perhaps Kerry Greenwood needs a better line in pop culture references? Annoying in so many small ways, particularly the regular harping on near-anorexic employees, Goss and Kylie, it's still very cup-of-tea comforting to read a book in wh...
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