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New York, N.Y. : Viking, 2009.
Description
U.S. ex-pat Lori Shepherd and Aunt Dimity investigate sabotage (and possible regicide) at a local Renaissance faire held in the idyllic Cotswolds village of Finch.
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LibraryThing member phoenixcomet
First time I've read an Aunt Dimity story and quite enjoyed it. This one was set in a medieval Ren Faire of which I am quite familiar with. Lori Shepherd is a mom of twin boys and is enmeshed in the town of Finch where the Ren Faire is occurring. Things keep 'happening' to the King and she sees a
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'plot' to commit regicide. Turns out that there was a plot but not at all by who she thought was responsible. Lighthearted and pleasant. Aunt Dimity is a journal that writes to Lori when Lori opens it (a touch of the magical). Show Less
LibraryThing member phyllis2779
Another charming installment in the Aunt Dimity series. I liked this one better than the last one, about the vampire. In that one, it was hard to imagine that a grown woman, one who supposedly had her wits about her, could imagine a neighbor was a vampire on no evidence at all.
LibraryThing member Jaie22
Went on an Aunt Dimity reading spree a few years ago. If this book is any indication of the rest of the series, I honestly can't see why. No actual crime has taken place, but our investigator is seeing shadows behind every door and ready to pounce at any moment. Meh. Maybe it will get better.
LibraryThing member mppreads
I began reading the Aunt Dimity series when it first came out and I was looking for a light-hearted series with no blood and gore. And I enjoyed the first few books in the series. I hadn't read the series for a while and decided to try this book. Nancy Atherton writes well, which kept me reading.
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The main character's snooping is due to an overactive imagination and nosy manner, but not much in the way of a compelling reason why any of this is her business or matters to her. In the end the main character doesn't have much to do with the solution of the mystery but rather sits back and listens to others solve it, which is disappointing. I feel this series works well for someone who wants a light mystery without murder reminiscent of Nancy Drew. Show Less
LibraryThing member anfirind
Just ok. I didn't hold my attention.
LibraryThing member melannen
I grabbed this because I like a good (or, for that matter, bad) cozy on a lazy rainy day, and since I was going to spend a week at a medieval re-enactment, a "cozier than thou cozy" about a renaissance fest seemed like the perfect thing to bring for a rained-out afternoon.
And that is when I read
It's not even that it's badly done - her reaction, and the town's, is believable, especially the way she has an emotional breakdown, assumes it's due to being "childishly emotional" rather than "having just had to physically defend myself from sexual assault", and then decides to spend the next week worrying about her husband's reaction to the assault rather than her own, decides it was all because she wore a low-cut top, and agrees with everyone else in town that the apparently serial rapist is just a bit of a merry womanizer.
Like I said, totally 100% believable, but not at ALL what I find "cozy". (I was also less than comforted by the fact that she blames herself for the actual bad guy [not the rapist]'s mental breakdown, because she didn't realize he was flirting with her and therefore it was clearly all her fault he thought he was a failure and decided to attempt murder??)
It's kind of depressing when a book that is clearly about a woman, by a woman, and for women doesn't seem to have actually made up its mind on the question of whether women are people.
The cover's great, though. I agree with the other reviewers on that.
And that is when I read
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it! I liked it okay - the portrayal of the re-enactors was much better than I was expecting, the scene-setting was fun, the mystery plot didn't drag too badly - but then I got to the bit where the protagonist is sexually assaulted, and I had to put the book down and go out into the rain for a bit.It's not even that it's badly done - her reaction, and the town's, is believable, especially the way she has an emotional breakdown, assumes it's due to being "childishly emotional" rather than "having just had to physically defend myself from sexual assault", and then decides to spend the next week worrying about her husband's reaction to the assault rather than her own, decides it was all because she wore a low-cut top, and agrees with everyone else in town that the apparently serial rapist is just a bit of a merry womanizer.
Like I said, totally 100% believable, but not at ALL what I find "cozy". (I was also less than comforted by the fact that she blames herself for the actual bad guy [not the rapist]'s mental breakdown, because she didn't realize he was flirting with her and therefore it was clearly all her fault he thought he was a failure and decided to attempt murder??)
It's kind of depressing when a book that is clearly about a woman, by a woman, and for women doesn't seem to have actually made up its mind on the question of whether women are people.
The cover's great, though. I agree with the other reviewers on that.
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LibraryThing member AltheaAnn
I keep being attracted to books in this series by the subject matter (in this case, ren faires) but the protagonist is just too annoying for words. I swear, this will be the last one I read!
LibraryThing member skayw
These books are getting fairly predictable but I still enjoy them!
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Original publication date
2009-02-19
Physical description
232 p.; 22 cm
ISBN
9780670020508
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