Eilonwy’s Reviews > Every Time I Go on Vacation, Someone Dies > Status Update

Hallelujah, I'm done! This book was so slow-paced that I had time to figure out the whole murder plot before anyone was even killed. Then I finished the book to see if I was right. And I was. [Takes a bow]

Finally, someone is dead! I was starting to feel like a ghoul waiting for it. But the story remains as blah as ever. I'll finish it to give a fair review, but this thing is drudgery.

This book should be 100 pages shorter. I figured that once all the potential suspects were introduced Things Would Start Happening, but instead this is dragging along with a lot of bloat and no tension or suspense. Eleanor and those dumb footnotes are both a lot less entertaining than the author seems to believe.

This is a quick easy read, with a nice light tone. But I'm having trouble suspending disbelief about a few things. First of all, the whole premise of getting stuck with an extortionist jerk for ten years because Eleanor insisted on using his real name in a rather bogus "novel." And second, Eleanor didn't even read her sister's novel before submitting it to her editor??? I'm not sure I like Eleanor much.

So far, so entertaining.