Summary:
Once again, we visit Skye Denison. This time around, Skye's mother has roped her into a cooking contest by entering her own recipe under Skye's name, along with her brother's and uncle's, in the hopes that the recipes might make the finals. All four recipes make it in, and May Denison guilts Skye into participating in the contest, even though Skye has no cooking skills whatsoever. Also, one of the high school students goes missing during the same weekend as the contest, and Skye promises her favorite students she will help them find the lost girl. Oh, and then the most obnoxious person in the contest gets killed.
Thoughts:
Skye is WEAK. She has to do everything for everyone else, and hardly ever thinks "well, this might get me grievously injured... Maybe I shouldn't do it!" And when that thought does cross her mind, she goes for the grievous injury anyway. What also drove me nuts about this book is May's insistence that Skye's boyfriend, the police chief that she's been lusting after for years, and who she finally started dating a book and a half ago, is no good. May works with Wally, and she knows what a nice guy he is, but she still tries to get Skye to break up with him, and go back to dating the funeral director. Seriously? Who would go for a funeral director over a cop in any contest? No, thank you. Besides, May hates the funeral director's mother, so why push for a situation that would force more contact with her? I like most of the characters in Swanson's series, but May is just getting too annoying for me. Bleh. Over her. Thank God my own mother isn't that annoying.
Overall, though, pretty good book. It took me until the last clue was exposed to figure out who the murderer was, which is always a good thing. And despite May's being a pain in the ass, I'll be continuing the series, so be ready to see another four or five posts about Swanson's books. (This is book 10 of a 14 book series, though Swanson seems to put a book or two out a year.) Oh, and fun extra, the "winning recipes" were included at the back for your baking needs.
Book 40 of 40! Just made it to 40 in 2011! 50 books in 2012!
Pages: 238, 246 if you count the recipes!
Genre: Mystery, slight romance
Grade: B- for extra May
Would I Recommend?: The whole series is fun, despite my occasional whining. And the okay thing about the series is that this one can be picked up in the middle with little worry about missing something big.
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