{"id":25577,"date":"2020-06-05T07:27:14","date_gmt":"2020-06-05T11:27:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/?p=25577"},"modified":"2022-10-11T16:58:51","modified_gmt":"2022-10-11T16:58:51","slug":"review-the-grim-reader-by-kate-carlisle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/05\/review-the-grim-reader-by-kate-carlisle\/","title":{"rendered":"Review \u2764\ufe0f The Grim Reader by Kate Carlisle"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--themify_builder_content-->\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-25577\" data-postid=\"25577\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-25577 themify_builder tf_clear\">\n    \t\t\t<!-- module_row -->\n\t<div  data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_row themify_builder_row tb_bbbcac8 tb_first tf_w tf_clearfix\">\n\t    \t\t\t<div class=\"row_inner gutter-narrow col_align_top tb_col_count_2 tf_box tf_rel\">\n\t\t            <div  data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_column tb-column col3-1 tb_49667e8 first\">\n                                                        <div class=\"tb-column-inner tf_box tf_w\">\n                        <!-- module image -->\n<div  class=\"module module-image tb_7036296 rounded drop-shadow customBorderRad_top image-center auto_fullwidth tf_mw\" data-lazy=\"1\">\n        <div class=\"image-wrap tf_rel tf_mw\">\n\t\t    <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/the-grim-reader-kate-carlisle-scaled.jpg?w=640\" title=\"Review \u2764\ufe0f The Grim Reader by Kate Carlisle\" alt=\"Review \u2764\ufe0f The Grim Reader by Kate Carlisle\">\t\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<!-- \/image-wrap -->\n    \n    \t<\/div>\n<!-- \/module image --><!-- module text -->\n<div  class=\"module module-text tb_a1982ef customBorderRad_bottom repeat \" data-lazy=\"1\">\n        <div  class=\"tb_text_wrap\">\n    <p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Brooklyn and her new hunky husband, Derek, are excited to be guests at Dharma\u2019s first annual Book Festival. The entire town is involved and Brooklyn\u2019s mom Rebecca is taking charge. In addition to all of her other event related duties, she\u2019s got Brooklyn doing rare book appraisals and is also staging Little Women, the musical to delight the festival goers. If that wasn\u2019t enough, she and Meg\u2014Derek\u2019s mom\u2014will have a booth where they read palms and tarot cards.<\/span><br \/><br \/><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Brooklyn couldn\u2019t be prouder of her mom\u2019s do-it-all attitude so when a greedy local businessman who seems intent on destroying Dharma starts harassing Rebecca, Brooklyn is ready to take him down. Rebecca is able to hold her own with the nasty jerk until one of her fellow festival committee members is brutally murdered and the money for the festival seems to have vanished into thin air.\u00a0<\/span><br \/><br \/><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Things get even more personal when one of Brooklyn\u2019s nearest and dearest is nearly run down in cold blood. Brooklyn and Derek go into attack mode and the pressure is on to catch a spineless killer before they find themselves skipping the festival for a funeral.<\/span><\/p>    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- \/module text -->                    <\/div>\n                            <\/div>\n                        <div  data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_column tb-column col3-2 tb_23787e9 last\">\n                                                        <div class=\"tb-column-inner tf_box tf_w\">\n                        <!-- module text -->\n<div  class=\"module module-text tb_2d1ea91  repeat \" data-lazy=\"1\">\n        <div  class=\"tb_text_wrap\">\n    <p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-16466 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/3-hearts.jpg?resize=135%2C44\" alt=\"\" width=\"135\" height=\"44\" \/><\/p><hr \/><p><strong>Release Date:<\/strong> Jun 10, 2020<br \/><strong>Series:<\/strong> <em>A<\/em> <em>Bibliophile Mystery<br \/><\/em><strong>Book: <\/strong>14<br \/><strong>Publisher:<\/strong> Penguin Group<br \/><strong>Imprint:<\/strong> Berkley<br \/><strong>Price:<\/strong> $13.99<\/p><hr \/><p>\u00a0<\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Book restoration expert <strong>Brooklyn Wainwright<\/strong> is excited to return to her hometown of Dharma, California with her husband Derek. They are going to be assisting Brooklyn\u2019s mother Rebecca with Dharma\u2019s first book festival. In spite of some in-fights between committee members, the preparations are going well until Brooklyn\u2019s mother and mother-in-law discover a dead body. When it looks like Rebecca, as well as Brooklyn, could be the next targets, Brooklyn is determined to find out who is behind the murder.<\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>The Grim Reade<\/strong>r is the fourteenth book in the <em>Bibliophile<\/em> series. I think fans of the series will enjoy the book more than new readers. I read two of the prior books in the middle of the series and still felt confused about who all the characters are. I like having the book take place during a book festival and since the town of Dharma is located in Northern California\u2019s wine country, that makes a nice setting. In the other two books I\u2019ve read in this series, what set them apart was the work Brooklyn did restoring books. I loved the detailed information about what is entailed and the books being restored were central to the story. In this installment, the parts that describe Brooklyn\u2019s work on restoring a potentially valuable edition of a classic are well-done and very interesting. However, there were too few of these scenes and Brooklyn\u2019s speciality seems to be an afterthought in the book which is disappointing.<\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I found much of the dialogue in the book to be over-the-top, both the arguments during the festival planning meetings, as well as the loving words between Brooklyn\u2019s family members. Neither end of the spectrum seems realistic to me and takes up too much of the book without moving the plot forward. It\u2019s nice to see a loving, supporting family but the praise between the characters becomes less meaningful when repeated over and over. When Brooklyn was working on solving the mystery or working on book restoring, I enjoyed the book. Things get more exciting as the story nears the conclusion and I really liked the dramatic, unexpected way the book ends. Fans of the series will especially enjoy the final touching scene between Brooklyn and Derek. 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The entire town is involved and Brooklyn\u2019s mom Rebecca is taking charge. In addition to all of her other event related duties, she\u2019s got Brooklyn doing rare book appraisals and is also staging Little Women, the musical to delight the festival goers. If that wasn\u2019t enough, she and Meg\u2014Derek\u2019s mom\u2014will have a booth where they read palms and tarot cards.<br \/><br \/>Brooklyn couldn\u2019t be prouder of her mom\u2019s do-it-all attitude so when a greedy local businessman who seems intent on destroying Dharma starts harassing Rebecca, Brooklyn is ready to take him down. Rebecca is able to hold her own with the nasty jerk until one of her fellow festival committee members is brutally murdered and the money for the festival seems to have vanished into thin air.\u00a0<br \/><br \/>Things get even more personal when one of Brooklyn\u2019s nearest and dearest is nearly run down in cold blood. Brooklyn and Derek go into attack mode and the pressure is on to catch a spineless killer before they find themselves skipping the festival for a funeral.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/3-hearts.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"135\" height=\"44\" \/><\/p><hr \/><p><strong>Release Date:<\/strong> Jun 10, 2020<br \/><strong>Series:<\/strong> <em>A<\/em> <em>Bibliophile Mystery<br \/><\/em><strong>Book: <\/strong>14<br \/><strong>Publisher:<\/strong> Penguin Group<br \/><strong>Imprint:<\/strong> Berkley<br \/><strong>Price:<\/strong> $13.99<\/p><hr \/><p>\u00a0<\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Book restoration expert <strong>Brooklyn Wainwright<\/strong> is excited to return to her hometown of Dharma, California with her husband Derek. They are going to be assisting Brooklyn\u2019s mother Rebecca with Dharma\u2019s first book festival. In spite of some in-fights between committee members, the preparations are going well until Brooklyn\u2019s mother and mother-in-law discover a dead body. When it looks like Rebecca, as well as Brooklyn, could be the next targets, Brooklyn is determined to find out who is behind the murder.<\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>The Grim Reade<\/strong>r is the fourteenth book in the <em>Bibliophile<\/em> series. I think fans of the series will enjoy the book more than new readers. I read two of the prior books in the middle of the series and still felt confused about who all the characters are. I like having the book take place during a book festival and since the town of Dharma is located in Northern California\u2019s wine country, that makes a nice setting. In the other two books I\u2019ve read in this series, what set them apart was the work Brooklyn did restoring books. I loved the detailed information about what is entailed and the books being restored were central to the story. In this installment, the parts that describe Brooklyn\u2019s work on restoring a potentially valuable edition of a classic are well-done and very interesting. However, there were too few of these scenes and Brooklyn\u2019s speciality seems to be an afterthought in the book which is disappointing.<\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I found much of the dialogue in the book to be over-the-top, both the arguments during the festival planning meetings, as well as the loving words between Brooklyn\u2019s family members. Neither end of the spectrum seems realistic to me and takes up too much of the book without moving the plot forward. It\u2019s nice to see a loving, supporting family but the praise between the characters becomes less meaningful when repeated over and over. When Brooklyn was working on solving the mystery or working on book restoring, I enjoyed the book. Things get more exciting as the story nears the conclusion and I really liked the dramatic, unexpected way the book ends. Fans of the series will especially enjoy the final touching scene between Brooklyn and Derek. After the story ends, a few recipes and a book group discussion guide follow.<\/p><p><em>~ Christine<\/em><\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2A5Lqmz\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Amazon<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/books.apple.com\/us\/book\/the-grim-reader\/id1479330250?mt=11&amp;app=itunes&amp;at=11l88k\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">iBooks<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.barnesandnoble.com\/w\/the-grim-reader-kate-carlisle\/1133411011?ean=9780451491459\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">B&amp;N<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kobo.com\/us\/en\/ebook\/the-grim-reader-2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kobo<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/books\/details\/Kate_Carlisle_The_Grim_Reader?id=exGuDwAAQBAJ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Google Play<\/a><\/strong><\/p>","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25577\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}