Books Can Be Deceiving (Library Lover's Mystery #1) by Jenn McKinlay

Being a fan of Jenn McKinlay's Cupcake Bakery Mystery series, I was looking forward to reading another cozy mystery series of hers and furthermore, it has the element that I really loved, The Library.

Unfortunately, this book was a really slow read for me. Each of the Cupcake Bakery Mystery books took me only a few hours to devour them in just one sitting. For this book, I took 4 sittings over a period of 2 weeks to finish it.

The first half of the book was really slow. There wasn't really much interesting element to keep me going on the book. The humor was not so funny, the mystery was not fully developed and the romance was just hit and go. What we learned from the first half of the book is that Rick was dead after Lindsey and Beth discovered that he had plagiarized Beth's work and the fuming duo went to his island to confront him only to find him stabbed and dead. Then we met the crazy chief of police who was very insistent on making Beth the murderer without evidence. A little touch on Lindsey's feeling with Sully but nothing to really make me feel any chemistry between the two of them.

The second half of the book actually saved this read. Lindsey began to investigate the past of Rick and that's when we learned more about the truth and some light touches on the danger posed to Lindsey during her investigation. We don't really see much of Sully anymore in this part of the book until the end. I like the small twist towards the end of the book about the murderer. That was really surprising although I had kind of guessed the motive behind the murder just not the real identity.

Overall, the book was a little disappointing for me since I had really enjoyed Jenn McKinlay's other works. This book lack the fun element and I find that there were too many characters in this book and none of them were well developed. It's like getting bits and pieces of everyone's life here and there and not really understanding them before the book ended. What I like about this book is the warmth and friendship of the Crafternoon members and I am really craving for clam chowder by the end of this read.