Spamsammich reviewed Pumpkin Spice Café by Laurie Gilmore
The top of a slippery slope
1.5 stars
I set out on this journey to read this whole series. I started with the Christmas Tree Farm and worked back around to this one.
Having read a few later ones first, I can see that this place is a horrorshow even from the first book. Although each book can stand alone, expect thag characters will pop up in some way in each of the later books like a scary, white-suburb marvel movie.
This book is for Jeanie and Logan, and establishes early the personality of every single other main character in the series. The woman is always emotionally unstable, the man is always just a little too violently possessive for my taste. No one makes a rational choice the entire book and every interaction is completely contrived.
This also starts the long list of evidence that Laurie does not know anything about the reality of running …
I set out on this journey to read this whole series. I started with the Christmas Tree Farm and worked back around to this one.
Having read a few later ones first, I can see that this place is a horrorshow even from the first book. Although each book can stand alone, expect thag characters will pop up in some way in each of the later books like a scary, white-suburb marvel movie.
This book is for Jeanie and Logan, and establishes early the personality of every single other main character in the series. The woman is always emotionally unstable, the man is always just a little too violently possessive for my taste. No one makes a rational choice the entire book and every interaction is completely contrived.
This also starts the long list of evidence that Laurie does not know anything about the reality of running a small business or small town economics. Please stop having your friends do unpaid labor at your business. Thats a great way to lose business and get sued.