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I was looking forward to reading this book and catching up with Venus again, but something about this story was off putting.
I love a story set at the holidays and I thought that this would be a perfect weekend story. Unfortunately, the characters in this book were not portrayed in a good light, and Venus did not seem as confident as she was in her last book.
The story itself had good bones, but the childish behavior of grown adults definitely turned me off.

I can’t even begin to explain how much I hate being negative about a book. I am of the mindset that authors put their blood, sweat, and tears into their work and they don’t need my negativity. With that said, this book just wasn’t for me and I agreed to review it good, bad, or ugly.

I was excited about a cozy mystery but I absolutely did not find that cozy feeling with this book. The characters are very unlikeable and that made it really hard to keep reading. The relationships between all the characters reminded me of mean girls because they were more frenemies than anything. Everyone was only thinking about their own interests and behaved so catty and selfishly. Carole is supposed to be Venus’s bff and business partner but the whole time she was completely insensitive and selfish which was just disappointing. I expected funny not uncomfortable. I love flawed main characters but I need something in them to grab me and that just didn’t happen here.

The thing is just because I wasn’t into it doesn’t mean someone else won’t love it. The beauty of being individuals is that we all have completely different personalities and tastes and one woman’s least favorite book could be another’s favorite.