Publisher: Berkley
Published: August 2,
2011
ISBN: 978-0425265598
Genre: Cozy
Mystery
Format: Print
Obtained via: Publisher
Reviewed by
name and email address: Gina Gina@loveromancesandmorereviews.com
TWO AND ½ HEARTS
Sunny Meadows is ready to hit the road and
leave the big city and all its drama behind and head to the peaceful and quiet
little down of Divinity. She’s already
bought a lovely old Victorian she’s dubbed Vicky and has dreams of opening her
own little fortune telling business. Her
parents, a doctor and a lawyer are less than thrilled, believing their only off
spring should engage in a more practical business. But Sunny has her goals and dreams and
nothing—not even a creepy old house, an onery car or murder is going to keep
them from her.
Okay, so Vicky isn’t creepy so much as
old, right? And Morty is just a big ole
white cat—does it really matter that no one seems to remember him being around
before Sunny’s arrival? And the bit
about murder… well it’s not really Sunny’s fault she was the last person to see
the victim alive, right?
The characters are one of the reasons I
enjoy cozy mysteries. They’d often
people you wouldn’t mind being friends with even with their little quirks. I didn’t find much in the characters in Kari
Lee Townsend’s TEMPEST IN THE TEA LEAVES
to like. I totally understand having
parents you’re at odds with—but she was just outright rude and nasty to
them. She didn’t really make any friends
in town either.
The concept of the Fortune Teller
Mysteries is a good one – but the writing was choppy, with characters going in
one direcdtion and then, for no reason, another. A Chief of Police appointing a murder suspect
to partner with a seasoned detective to figure out who killed the victim? An
unexplained disappearing cat? A house
that may be haunted, but nothing really creepy happens in the house? And no true fortune reader would come right
out and tell a client they were going to die—that just goes against good
business and ethics.
Divinity does seem like a good setting, as
does the old Victorian. There is
potential to the series if the author can settle down and pick a direction.
This is an objective review and not an endorsement of
this book.
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