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The Glass is Always Greener by Tamar Myers

My rating: 3 of 5 stars


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Used my holiday to finish reading The Glass is Always Greener by Tamar Myers. It’s the 16th (and final) in her “Den of Antiquity” series of humorous cozies. The main character is Abigail Timberlake Washburn, owner of Den of Antiquity.

Abby reluctantly agrees to accompany her friend, Rob, to a “going away” party hosted by his eccentric Aunt Jerry, who recently had a reading done that revealed her date of death. Jerry uses the opportunity to impugn her entire greedy family. Even Abby gets drawn into the drama when she tries to defend Rob. After Jerry is found dead in the walk-in freezer, Abby finds herself a suspect in the woman’s death. All she wants to do is go home, but she can’t leave town while she’s a person of interest. For that reason, Abby decides to do some sleuthing on her own. She’s aided by her Mama and friends CJ and Wynnell, who came to lend support. What Abby learns is that Rob’s family are all mad, and any one of them could have done the deed.

To begin with, I have several books in this series, and Amazon led me to believe it was the FIRST one, not the last one. Had I known that, I would have read it, oh, I don’t know...LAST. Grr. I have read a few others in the series; they are all delightfully funny and madcap—very entertaining. Abby’s observations are hilarious, and although some of the characters’ behavior is completely over the top, it just adds to the amusement factor. I did not care for how this ended, neither the book/story itself nor the series as a whole.

Favorite lines:
♦ In the stunned silence that followed, one could have heard a frog fart.
♦ It is no accident, I think, that the first syllable of the word hormones is what it is.
♦ “Those rolls make my tongue want to come out and slap my head silly.”
♦ “A hunch from a woman is worth two facts from a man.”
♦ “Biddies, please. Oops, I meant to say ladies.” // “The hell you did,” the biddies said in unison.
♦ Trust me, being surprised from behind by another person is even worse when it happens in a cemetery.
♦ “For now is not forever.”

I’d love to give this 3.5 stars. Hm. The rushed ending knocks it down to three.