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Chargement... Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers (édition 2023)par Jesse Q. Sutanto (Auteur)
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. This is a really fun book mainly because of Vera. We want her to cook for us and make us endless cups of tea. It is also an interesting story about life, choices, friendships, and family. ( ) Vera Wong's Unsolicited Guide for Murderers by Jesse Q Sutanto is a slow paced thriller with an amateur woman sleuth, Vera Wong. The book is horribly slow with bad characters. At some places the plot doesn't even makes sense. The first few pages were good but Vera Wong's character made it unbearable. The suspects even look like one, and our woman sleuth was too much nosy. The plot had too many loopholes to digest the facts. I have read this book as a part of #52booksin52weeks challenge. It was really a challenge reaching the end. I had high hopes for the book but everything turned out to be so disappointing. The book deserves 2 stars. Just ... meh, overall, despite its promise. Mystery is underwhelming as a plot and a puzzle. Vera is the strongest character, but she is sixty and acts seventy-five, along with the two-year-old who acts like she is six. I like the emphasis on Asian American characters and the idea of strangers being pulled together, but the other characters are fairly flat and predictable. Also, at times Vera is too good to be true and other times veers too close to also being flat and predictable (stereotypical). I read she wrote this fast, so maybe her first mystery (Dial A for Aunties) is better. The prose is also flat. Vera Wang finds a dead man in her tea shop and decides that the police aren't taking it seriously enough. So, she decides to investigate herself. This was the perfect book to listen to between the murders I have been reading about in the Helen Grace books. Definitely, a cosy mystery which I enjoyed. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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HTML:A lonely shopkeeper takes it upon herself to solve a murder in the most peculiar way in this captivating mystery by Jesse Q. Sutanto, bestselling author of Dial A for Aunties. Vera Wong is a lonely little old ladyâ??ah, lady of a certain ageâ??who lives above her forgotten tea shop in the middle of San Franciscoâ??s Chinatown. Despite living alone, Vera is not needy, oh no. She likes nothing more than sipping on a good cup of Wulong and doing some healthy detective work on the Internet about what her Gen-Z son is up to. Then one morning, Vera trudges downstairs to find a curious thingâ??a dead man in the middle of her tea shop. In his outstretched hand, a flash drive. Vera doesnâ??t know what comes over her, but after calling the cops like any good citizen would, she sort of . . . swipes the flash drive from the body and tucks it safely into the pocket of her apron. Why? Because Vera is sure she would do a better job than the police possibly could, because nobody sniffs out a wrongdoing quite like a suspicious Chinese mother with time on her hands. Vera knows the killer will be back for the flash drive; all she has to do is watch the increasing number of customers at her shop and figure out which one among them is the killer. What Vera does not expect is to form friendships with her customers and start to care for each and every one of them. As a protective mother hen, will she end up having to give one of her newfound chicks Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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