Key Lime Pie Murder by Joanne Fluke

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A Hannah Swensen Mystery

Better recipes than the last one, and a more personally engaging plot.  It was hard to feel too involved in the book before this one in the series because so many characters in it were out-of-towners in tiny Lake Eden.

A Lick of Frost by Laurell K Hamilton

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A refreshing return to better balance between plot and sex in the Meredith Gentry series.

FTR, by better I mean more plot to balance out all the sex. Though, truthfully, compared to the last few entries in this series the sex in A Lick of Frost was rather pedestrian. It was a refreshing, and welcome, change.

Super Mom Saves the World by Melanie Lynn Hauser

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I wanted to like this character, but I just couldn’t.  She was just too damn clean.  I am a crummy housekeeper and Super Mom just made me feel completely inadequate.  Wench.  Other than that it was a little slow and, well, kind of dull.  I know Hauser wanted a heroine moms could relate to, but I think she is just a hair too close to real life to be interesting… I read to escape, not to be reminded of what I am supposed to be doing…

Across the Wall by Garth Nix

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I admit it, I only read this for the Old Kingdom story.  I read the whole thing because I felt guilty for just reading the one story I was interested in, but it was, by far, the best in the book.  Though I did like the 2 Arthurian tales.  I’m a closet arthuriana nut though…