I had a hard time with this book. The plot was very clever and i read quickly racing to the end. BUT the amateur detective, Lila Wilkins, is the most stupid character I ever met in a mystery. Two examples: 1. she starts drooling every time a good looking man appears, panting, whatever. It's lucky all they wanted was a kiss. If they were after more she would have been on hr back on the floor in a minute. 2. She face to face confronts her suspects and tells them why she thinks they're guilty. I wonder if she was surprised at the end when the real one tries to kill her. I won't be looking for any future books about her. Lila Wilkins finds she's been laid off from her job at the local newspaper, a job she's held for years. Fortunately she immediately, and I mean immediately, finds a new job as an intern at a literary agency just one town over, actually in the town where her mother, a psychic, happens to live. Unfortunately, during the course of her first day she not only uncovers the drudgery of being a literary agent, but also meets a homeless many who regularly visits the agency, a homeless man who she will find dead, murdered, on the sofa in the reception area of her new employer. She spends the rest of the novel dealing with this man's death, her sometimes troublesome teenage son, her sometimes overbearing mother, and her libido, torn between two men new to her life.I am an avid reader, and as such, honor and respect every aspect of the writing, editing, and publishing process. I have multiple friends who are writers and editors. To find a book that is so insistent on cramming down a reader's throat, the belief that the job of a literary agent is of the utmost importance, above and beyond all, seems a bit over the top. As if we avid readers did not already understand and appreciate the importance. Still the self-righteousness of this main character, not only about her current job, but about everything else concerning her, her mothering skills, her detective skills, even the fact that a house deserves a better owner, that owner being her, comes off so self-indulgent and shallow that Lila becomes unlikable. All of the characters seem to fall flat, and somehow the writing is both descriptive as well as stiff and stilted. It reads much like the work of a school child learning to write descriptive paragraphs, not like a skilled literary professional. The words are there, but the feelings, emotions, and connections are not. Unfortunately, the storyline is much the same. There is actually very little mystery to this mystery. There is little to no suspense. It becomes a focus on a large cast of characters, none of which are developed well enough to even be interesting. I most definitely will not be reading another edition of this series.
What do You think about Buried In A Book (2012)?
Enjoy this book and would like to read the next ones in the series.
—DancerChick26
Great first in a series. I look forward to enjoying more.
—Shop24
I can't wait to read the next one!
—sleepyrobot1987
