Poco a poco voy engullendo toda la bibliografía de esta magnífica escritora, que no es poca. Esta es la quinta entrega de su saga protagonizada por una peculiar e inocente Aurora Teagarden que sin querer se ve envuelta en todo asesinato que ocurre en la pequeña aldea de Lawrencenton, Georgia.Tras el anterior libro nos encontramos con una feliz y casada pareja ya que Martin ha dejado atrás su pasado oscuro armamentístico y Aurora ha vuelto a trabajar en la biblioteca a tiempo parcial llenando lo que eran sus horas de aburrimiento.Un buen día estando en el patio trasero disfrutando del sol, aparece un avión que deja caer de él el cadáver del más que conocido enemigo de Aurora, el detective Jack Burns, por lo que las preguntas que se comienza a hacer son evidentes. ¿Por qué lo han tirado exactamente en su patio habiendo mil sitios más?¿Quién lo habrá asesinado?.Es entonces cuando Aurora, a la vez que el sheriff Padgett Lanier y el agente John Dryden, comienza a especular sobre el/la asesino del serio detective.Charlaine sigue haciendo un uso mágico de su pluma y crea con la misma facilidad que en entregas anteriores una nueva aventura peligrosa para Aurora y sus allegados repleta de giros inesperados y protagonizada por una Aurora más temeraria e imprudente.Esta es una novela muy amena, que se lee enseguida y te entretiene desde el principio al final. Con una prosa sencilla y ágil la escritora te va mostrando la evolución de los habitantes de Lawrencenton y recordando brevemente quién es quién para no sentirte pérdida en caso de haberte leído las anteriores entregas hace tiempo.Pese a que es una novela a la que se le podía haber dotado de más intensidad y tensión en algunos momentos de miedo, no deja de pertenecer al género cozy mystery, donde nuestra heroína tendrá que aplicar su ingenio e inteligencia para sobrevivir, ayudar a los que le rodean y entretenernos a nosotros, los lectores, con un misterio más light que en las novelas de crimen que suelen haber en el mercado.En resumen, esta es la quinta entrega de la saga Aurora Teagarden de la magnífica escritora sureña Charlaine Harris. Encontrarás cadáveres, intentos de asesinatos, heridos y sentimientos a doquien en el paso de sus hojas. Una novela entretenida y amenas que te hará disfrutar de la evolución de los personajes que habitan la pacífica pero a veces perturbada Lawrencenton.Lo mejor: los giros inesperados.Lo peor: podría haber dado más emoción en algunas escenas.
UGGGHHHHH! <<< That sums up my highly intelligent review. Okay, really though... It pains me to not like this because I love Charlaine Harris, and I will still read everything else she writes, but I cannot stand the main character Aurora. This is the 5th book in the Aurora Teagarden series and I have been forcing myself to work my way through the series because I feel like I need to know what happens to the characters even though they are irritating. I will probably take a break before I drag myself through the last 3. In this book, Aurora was particularly annoying, her vanity grows with each book. All I could think of while listening to this one is Aurora being a high school girl saying "LIKE, OMG WHY IS EVERYONE SO OBSESSED WITH ME???"I know she is the main character but she seems to be aware the world revolves around her and still tries to act oh so doe eyed and naïve. Oh and another thing... I know Charlaine is from the south and these books were written in the 90's... but... if there is a black character in the book you are going to know immediately by the stereotypical descriptions and voice changes (I listened to the Audiobook). I am not all about being politically correct or throwing up race cards but it was just too much. I have yet to read the Lily Bard series but between Sookie, Harper, and Aurora... Aurora is my least favorite. I hope Charlaine writes her into a new novel and kills her off. That would make me happy.
What do You think about Dead Over Heels (1997)?
I got this book from the library, without reading the first four in the series. Luckily for me, the characters were well introduced so that it wasn't necessary for me to have read the first books in order to understand this one. This was a very short novel, and it was easy to read, making this a fast read. I thought that the characters were interesting, and while I wouldn't say this was a good enough book (at least in my opinion) to spend money on, I think that it was a good way to spend an afternoon.I thought that from the very beginning of the book, the mystery was fascinating - how many books involve a man falling out of the sky into a particular target's yard? The murderer has a very interesting way of trying to attract the person whom they desire, and one of the nice things about having a shorter book is that there isn't a lot of time to refocus on every little aspect of the mystery and the personal lives of the main characters - some authors are very prone to repeating various details several times in mystery books, which seems to make them drag on forever.While Aurora isn't the most compelling protagonist, she had enough character to make it through a 120 page book. If you have enjoyed the previous books or other writings by Charlaine Harris, you should like this one.
—Brianna
Mystery. Two years have passed since the last book. Aurora is settled into her new house with her new husband and her new bodyguards and is presented with a new mystery when Detective Sergeant Jack Burns—always suspicious of Roe and her proximity to dead bodies—falls out of an airplane and lands dead in her backyard.I was really disappointed in this. Aurora spends the entire book making poor decisions and being really oblivious about the mystery. While I like that these books change up the type of investigating Roe does—it's not always full-on amateur sleuthing with her—she was incredibly passive in this one, just bumbling along her daily routine while murders and assaults happened all around her. She finally gets some agency at the end, but she uses it to make another dumb decision. As for the killer, his motive is unimaginative, yet at the same time hard to understand. It's a stretch to ask me to believe he had any kind of interior emotional life when he was so underdeveloped I couldn't even remember his profession.The other thing I (used to) like about this series is that Roe changes from book to book, but she seems to have stagnated here, and she's still married to Martin who I continue to find boring and unlikeable.Two stars. Weak mystery, with no good character stuff to make up for it.eBook: No cover and lots of annoying little typographical errors.
—Punk
I really do enjoy the easy reading of Charlene Harris and her characters are always light and fun, but why do they always need to go on about how they are 'OK' with black people. Every single book there is always one speech regarding this.Page 61- 'I was glad to see the black library patrons as white, I thought black kids were as cute as white kids, I worked as well with black librarians as white' this made me squirm as I read it.She also has habit of comparing the beauty of woman to food which is rather strange.Page 140 'I noticed Arthur was staring at me as if he hadn't eaten his dinner and I was a barbecued chicken breast' lol But as I said I do enjoy them for what they are, simple,light entertainment which can be read in a couple of hours.
—Maureen
