King Kid Book

Okay. I just need to stop reading this series. I realize many people love this series, but it's just not working for me. A cozy mystery (for me) should have a great setting that I'd like to live in, unique characters whom I'd like to visit, and a fun mystery--not stellar, just fun. This series has none of those things, as far as I can tell.

You may wonder why I've read 5 of the books in this series if I dislike it so much. The answer is threefold: 1) I'm terribly OCD and feel compelled to finish any series I start; 2) I kept hoping that as the author wrote and time passed the books would be better written and less dated (that never happened); and 3) I bought the whole damn series at a used book store several years ago. I felt obligated to read it.

I just don't get the series. The characters are quite unlikable--I actively dislike pretty much all of them. The plot developments are awkward at best, puzzling at worst. (Goldy's ex-husband basically breaks into her house and breaks things . . . while she's married to a large detective who carries a gun? That detective/husband basically sabotages her catering event to "keep her busy" at the job so she won't sleuth around?) And I never want to visit this strange town.

If this series works for you, that's cool. But I think I need to step away.