{"id":27274,"date":"2021-05-27T07:33:36","date_gmt":"2021-05-27T11:33:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/?p=27274"},"modified":"2022-10-18T23:37:05","modified_gmt":"2022-10-19T03:37:05","slug":"review-the-diva-serves-forbidden-fruit-by-krista-davis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/27\/review-the-diva-serves-forbidden-fruit-by-krista-davis\/","title":{"rendered":"Review \ud83d\udd0d The Diva Serves Forbidden Fruit by Krista Davis"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--themify_builder_content-->\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-27274\" data-postid=\"27274\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-27274 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\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"331\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/the-diva-serves-forbidden-fruit-krista-davis.jpg?resize=331%2C500&#038;ssl=1\" class=\"wp-post-image wp-image-29616\" title=\"the-diva-serves-forbidden-fruit-krista-davis\" alt=\"the-diva-serves-forbidden-fruit-krista-davis\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/the-diva-serves-forbidden-fruit-krista-davis.jpg?w=331&amp;ssl=1 331w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/the-diva-serves-forbidden-fruit-krista-davis.jpg?resize=199%2C300&amp;ssl=1 199w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/the-diva-serves-forbidden-fruit-krista-davis.jpg?resize=400%2C604&amp;ssl=1 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 331px) 100vw, 331px\" \/>\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;\">With Old Town\u2019s DIY Home Decorating Festival in full swing, Sophie\u2019s swamped, juggling a bumper crop of artisans, antique dealers, and decorators for the busy street fair. Still, when her best friend Nina suddenly needs a ride from the airport, Sophie is happy to help . . . until she sees Nina disembarking in a state of disarray. It\u2019s obvious the trip to Portugal soured somewhere along the way. But after one of Nina\u2019s traveling companions turns up murdered the following day, Sophie knows something is truly rotten . . .<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">\u00a0<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Though the crime scene is staged to look like an accident, Sophie isn\u2019t fooled and peels off to conduct her own investigation. Her only clue is a strange image the victim scratched into the soil before dying. Could it point to a cryptic killer in Old Town? A bitter travel adversary? Or a cursed artifact smuggled back from the trip? As the mystery grows, so does the body count, and if Sophie doesn\u2019t pluck the murderer soon, her best friend may be the next to fall . . .<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">\u00a0<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><strong>Includes delicious recipes and fabulous DIY decorating tips!<\/strong><\/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\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/smitten-top-pick-banner-1.png?resize=296%2C72\" alt=\"\" width=\"296\" height=\"72\" class=\"size-full wp-image-25879 aligncenter\" \/><\/p><hr \/><p><strong><br \/>Release Date:<\/strong>\u00a0May 25, 2021<br \/><strong>Series:<\/strong>\u00a0<em>A Domestic Diva Mystery<br \/><\/em><strong>Book:\u00a0<\/strong>14<br \/><strong>Publisher:<\/strong>\u00a0Kensington<br \/><strong>Price:<\/strong> $12.99<\/p><hr \/><p><br \/><br \/><\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A group of tourists, upon returning from a three-week vacation from Portugal, succumb to a series of mysterious deaths, leaving the police baffled for an alternate connection, enter Sophie Winston, neighbor and friend.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>Join Author <em><strong>Krista Davis<\/strong><\/em>, in this superb cozy-murder-mystery, <strong>The Diva Serves Forbidden Fruit<\/strong>. This is the 14<sup>th<\/sup> book in the <em>Domestic Diva<\/em> series.<\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Sophie Winston<\/strong> is the protagonist in this whirlwind murder-mystery.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>I love her hospitality, forwardness and her amazing determination to protect the vulnerable.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>She\u2019s also a magnet for dead bodies and unusual circumstances. Even though I think Sophie is great, she is even better with the people she surrounds herself with.<span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The real winners, and why this book is such a gem, is because of the supporting characters. The camaraderie between the friends was amazing.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>I can\u2019t decide who was my favorite, they were all so great, Mars, the ex-husband, Bernie, the restaurant owner, Nina, neighbor and friend and poor Humphrey.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>The dialogue between the friends, and really, throughout the book, was effortless. <span>\u00a0<\/span>The other characters in town were lively and entertaining and contributed so much to the plot. I loved how all of them were characterized. This is how you lose yourself in a book.<span>\u00a0 <\/span><\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This cozy mystery was one of the best ones I\u2019ve read in a while!<span>\u00a0 <\/span>It\u2019s all in the way the story flowed and the exceptionally good dialogue. I loved every bit of it and truly enjoyed my time reading it. If I wasn\u2019t reading, I was thinking about getting back to it.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>Nerve wrecking in the best way, but still not heavily angsty; a true mystery till the very end.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>Actually, there\u2019s more than one mystery in this story, which is brilliant, because it throws everything slightly off and keeps you guessing.<span>\u00a0 <\/span><\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This is the first book that I\u2019ve read in this series and I had absolutely no issues falling in love with the characters or their setting.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>I highly recommend and extra, extra points, because Sophie Winston and her friends, usually gathered around food and those recipes are included at the end of the book.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>Enjoy!<\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>~ Patricia<\/em><\/p>    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- \/module text --><!-- module text -->\n<div  class=\"module module-text tb_eb0616c customBorderRad repeat \" data-lazy=\"1\">\n        <div  class=\"tb_text_wrap\">\n    <p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3yHo6VR\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Amazon<\/a><\/span><span class=\"s2\">\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/books.apple.com\/us\/book\/the-diva-serves-forbidden-fruit\/id1539950588?itsct=books_box_link&amp;itscg=30200&amp;at=11l88k&amp;ct=books_the_diva_serves_forbidden_fruit&amp;ls=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span class=\"s3\">iBooks<\/span><\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.barnesandnoble.com\/w\/the-diva-serves-forbidden-fruit-krista-davis\/1137556794?ean=9781496732750\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span class=\"s3\">B&amp;N<\/span><\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kobo.com\/us\/en\/ebook\/the-diva-serves-forbidden-fruit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span class=\"s3\">Kobo<\/span><\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/books\/details\/Krista_Davis_The_Diva_Serves_Forbidden_Fruit?id=e-r5DwAAQBAJ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span class=\"s3\">Google Play<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- \/module text -->                    <\/div>\n                            <\/div>\n            \t    <\/div>\n\t    <!-- \/row_inner -->\n\t<\/div>\n\t<!-- \/module_row -->\n\t<\/div>\n<!--\/themify_builder_content-->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With Old Town\u2019s DIY Home Decorating Festival in full swing, Sophie\u2019s swamped, juggling a bumper crop of artisans, antique dealers, and decorators for the busy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29616,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[110,127,48],"tags":[153,223,367,404,405,485],"class_list":["post-27274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-kensington-publishing-companies","category-patricia","category-reviews","tag-4-5-stars","tag-cozy-mystery","tag-mystery","tag-recommend","tag-recommended-reads","tag-top-picks"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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Still, when her best friend Nina suddenly needs a ride from the airport, Sophie is happy to help . . . until she sees Nina disembarking in a state of disarray. It\u2019s obvious the trip to Portugal soured somewhere along the way. But after one of Nina\u2019s traveling companions turns up murdered the following day, Sophie knows something is truly rotten . . .<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>Though the crime scene is staged to look like an accident, Sophie isn\u2019t fooled and peels off to conduct her own investigation. Her only clue is a strange image the victim scratched into the soil before dying. Could it point to a cryptic killer in Old Town? A bitter travel adversary? Or a cursed artifact smuggled back from the trip? As the mystery grows, so does the body count, and if Sophie doesn\u2019t pluck the murderer soon, her best friend may be the next to fall . . .<br \/>\u00a0<br \/><strong>Includes delicious recipes and fabulous DIY decorating tips!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/smitten-top-pick-banner-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"296\" height=\"72\" \/><\/p><hr \/><p><strong><br \/>Release Date:<\/strong>\u00a0May 25, 2021<br \/><strong>Series:<\/strong>\u00a0<em>A Domestic Diva Mystery<br \/><\/em><strong>Book:\u00a0<\/strong>14<br \/><strong>Publisher:<\/strong>\u00a0Kensington<br \/><strong>Price:<\/strong> $12.99<\/p><hr \/><p><br \/><br \/><\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A group of tourists, upon returning from a three-week vacation from Portugal, succumb to a series of mysterious deaths, leaving the police baffled for an alternate connection, enter Sophie Winston, neighbor and friend.\u00a0 Join Author <em><strong>Krista Davis<\/strong><\/em>, in this superb cozy-murder-mystery, <strong>The Diva Serves Forbidden Fruit<\/strong>. This is the 14<sup>th<\/sup> book in the <em>Domestic Diva<\/em> series.<\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Sophie Winston<\/strong> is the protagonist in this whirlwind murder-mystery.\u00a0 I love her hospitality, forwardness and her amazing determination to protect the vulnerable.\u00a0 She\u2019s also a magnet for dead bodies and unusual circumstances. Even though I think Sophie is great, she is even better with the people she surrounds herself with.\u00a0<\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The real winners, and why this book is such a gem, is because of the supporting characters. The camaraderie between the friends was amazing.\u00a0 I can\u2019t decide who was my favorite, they were all so great, Mars, the ex-husband, Bernie, the restaurant owner, Nina, neighbor and friend and poor Humphrey.\u00a0 The dialogue between the friends, and really, throughout the book, was effortless. \u00a0The other characters in town were lively and entertaining and contributed so much to the plot. I loved how all of them were characterized. This is how you lose yourself in a book.\u00a0 <\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This cozy mystery was one of the best ones I\u2019ve read in a while!\u00a0 It\u2019s all in the way the story flowed and the exceptionally good dialogue. I loved every bit of it and truly enjoyed my time reading it. If I wasn\u2019t reading, I was thinking about getting back to it.\u00a0 Nerve wrecking in the best way, but still not heavily angsty; a true mystery till the very end.\u00a0 Actually, there\u2019s more than one mystery in this story, which is brilliant, because it throws everything slightly off and keeps you guessing.\u00a0 <\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This is the first book that I\u2019ve read in this series and I had absolutely no issues falling in love with the characters or their setting.\u00a0 I highly recommend and extra, extra points, because Sophie Winston and her friends, usually gathered around food and those recipes are included at the end of the book.\u00a0 Enjoy!<\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>~ Patricia<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3yHo6VR\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Amazon<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/books.apple.com\/us\/book\/the-diva-serves-forbidden-fruit\/id1539950588?itsct=books_box_link&amp;itscg=30200&amp;at=11l88k&amp;ct=books_the_diva_serves_forbidden_fruit&amp;ls=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">iBooks<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.barnesandnoble.com\/w\/the-diva-serves-forbidden-fruit-krista-davis\/1137556794?ean=9781496732750\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">B&amp;N<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kobo.com\/us\/en\/ebook\/the-diva-serves-forbidden-fruit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kobo<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/books\/details\/Krista_Davis_The_Diva_Serves_Forbidden_Fruit?id=e-r5DwAAQBAJ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Google Play<\/a><\/strong><\/p>","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27274","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=27274"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29618,"href":"https:\/\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27274\/revisions\/29618"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}