Author Topic: DON'T READ THAT!!!  (Read 1510 times)

Offline Chez Miriam

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Re: DON'T READ THAT!!!
« Reply #30 on: May 31, 2018, 03:06:07 pm »
Christmas at Carrington's by Alexandra Brown.  I wanted to shake the protagonist and scream "grow up!".  Everyone seemed to be behaving like adolescents - I don't have a problem about that, but let them be schoolchildren doing so, not (alleged) adults.  The flip side of that is Elizabeth George's series for young adults [Edge of ...]: they were wonderful characters, and I'm scouring the charity shops for more.

I mostly read murder-mysteries, but I take two weeks at Christmas to read Christmas themed books - most of which are chick lit.  I don't mind that brief window of that genre, but there's got to be some standards!  Last Christmas I managed to find a bunch of murder-mysteries with "Christmas" or "Advent" in the title, so I was a happy bunny. ;D  And I was more discerning with the "Christmas at the Little Tea Room" choices.
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