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The Accidental Florist (Jane Jeffry Mysteries, No. 16)
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The Accidental Florist (Jane Jeffry Mysteries, No. 16) Description
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9780060528461
ISBN: 006052846X
Label: Avon
Manufacturer: Avon
Number Of Items: 1
Book Pages: 224
Publication Date: 2007-12-01
Publisher: Avon
Product Release Date: 2007-11-27
Studio: Avon
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9780060528461
ISBN: 006052846X
Label: Avon
Manufacturer: Avon
Number Of Items: 1
Book Pages: 224
Publication Date: 2007-12-01
Publisher: Avon
Product Release Date: 2007-11-27
Studio: Avon
Editorial Review of The Accidental Florist (Jane Jeffry Mysteries, No. 16)
Here comes the bride!
Suburban supersleuth Jane Jeffry and her detective beau Mel VanDyne have finally decided to tie the knot. While Jane's planning the wedding of her dreams—with no overbearing mother-in-law to steamroll the entire event and tell her what to wear—Mel convinces her and her best friend Shelley to take a women's self-defense class. But before Jane and Shelley can learn the karate kicks and mean moves to fight off even the perfect purse-snatcher, their class is cut brutally short . . . when two participants are murdered.
Between her new writing project, an addition to the house, and battling mothers-in-law, she's got her hands full. But she'll have to make time to help Mel find the killer if she wants to walk happily—and safely—down the aisle.
Customer Reviews of The Accidental Florist (Jane Jeffry Mysteries, No. 16)
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Can't believe I paid $7 for this book....
Review: I love the Jane Jeffry series (and Grace and Favor to a somewhat lesser degree) and have always anxiously awaited the opportunity to read one. I couldn't manage to snap up this one at the non-profit, used book store (my preferred place to buy) so I went to B&N and bought the paperback full-price. I feel so ripped-off. What a travesty this book was!! I concur with all of the negative commentaries so no reiteration is necessary. In general, the characters that were previously warm, funny, complex and interesting seem to all have been numbed for an impending surgery. The careless, non-chalant way in which heavy issues (ie murder, debilitating illnesses, elderly issues and racial relations) were dealt with in contrast to the ridiculous filler (horrible novel by Jane, grocery lists, cleaning the refrigerator) was just downright offensive to Ms. Churchill's loyal fan-base. If this is in fact the last in the series it is sad that the character's last appearances were treated so poorly.
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Mystery? What mystery?
Review: I found this to be an extremely disappointing book. Yes, a crime does occur--but with virtually no suspects and very few pages dedicated to the solving of the crime, it's not so much a mystery as it is The Story of Jane: Jane's book, Jane's wedding, Jane's personal fight against the horror of parking meters (with a seemingly endless roll of quarters) with a few references to Mel's work on the case thrown in as almost an afterthought. While I enjoyed the first few Jane Jeffrey mysteries, I will definitely not be buying any more books in this series.
PS--Ms. Shellnut, I'm glad you liked the book. I didn't. There is no need for you to post a comment on my review as you have done on so many others explaining to me why I am wrong. Thanks!
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Very Negative Book
Review: I have been a Jill Churchill fan for a long time. I even met her at ALA convention years ago. She was delightful and personable to talk to. This is why it pains me so much to speak ill of this book & her writing.
I am going to agree with all the other negative reviews on there being no mystery. There was no mystery at all. It was just a wedding planning book. The thing is, I could almost take the no mystery mystery. What annoyed me page after page was the negativity. Apparently, Ms. Churchill has a real axe to grind with several categories of folks. I mean, who is Jane close to? Everybody but her best friend, boyfriend, parents & kids are portrayed as awful people..... Her sister, her exhusband, her past mother-in-law, her future mother-in-law, all the people who attended church with her mother-in-law, all the old ladies except for one old lady at the funeral. Even the meter maid came in for negativity. It was one bad depressing person after another. Why couldn't there be a pleasant mother-in-law tossed in for a change? It's just not pleasant to read about so many hateful unpleasant people. And mentioning racism to little children didn't make for riveting or interesting reading. In short, Jane needs to get out of the house more, meet some nice pleasant people.
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Phoned it in while watching TV
Review: Like other reviewers, I've enjoyed this series in the past, and have passed the books onto my mother, who loves them. But this one reads like a careless first draft. In addition to the plot defects, there are these boners that just made me gape: Mel is telling Jane about how his mother was so unhappy that, after he graduated from college and wanted to become a policeman, that she refused to pay for college. Wait, didn't he just graduate? Then there are these ludicrous plot points around a completely erroneous definition of "per stirpes," a term used in estate planning. Just plain wrong, jarring to a lawyer. The mothers-in-law are so bad that they are unbelievable. So's Jane's new book. What a comedown from what used to be delightful reading.
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: The Accidental Florist
Review: This book has no plot; it just rambles on about Jane writing career, and her wedding to the extremely dull and boring Mel. So instead of getting a mystery, you get a very tedious account of her wedding details. Poor Jane, her vicious former mother-in-law is totally against it and is trying to swindle her out of her shares in the family business. Lucky for Jane the old lady dies; but wait, she is replaced my Mel's cold and scheming mother. Not to worry, Jane outsmarts her, aided my her old friend Shelly. Two women die in this book, but they hardly get a mention. The sad thing about this book is that it was so mean- spirited. Most of the characters come off as mean, vindictive, scheming. I'm guessing this book is meant to be an end of the series book, and that the author was trying to tie up all the loose ends. I just can't help but thinking that the fans of this series deserved a better book to end with.
Review Summary: Can't believe I paid $7 for this book....
Review: I love the Jane Jeffry series (and Grace and Favor to a somewhat lesser degree) and have always anxiously awaited the opportunity to read one. I couldn't manage to snap up this one at the non-profit, used book store (my preferred place to buy) so I went to B&N and bought the paperback full-price. I feel so ripped-off. What a travesty this book was!! I concur with all of the negative commentaries so no reiteration is necessary. In general, the characters that were previously warm, funny, complex and interesting seem to all have been numbed for an impending surgery. The careless, non-chalant way in which heavy issues (ie murder, debilitating illnesses, elderly issues and racial relations) were dealt with in contrast to the ridiculous filler (horrible novel by Jane, grocery lists, cleaning the refrigerator) was just downright offensive to Ms. Churchill's loyal fan-base. If this is in fact the last in the series it is sad that the character's last appearances were treated so poorly.
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Mystery? What mystery?
Review: I found this to be an extremely disappointing book. Yes, a crime does occur--but with virtually no suspects and very few pages dedicated to the solving of the crime, it's not so much a mystery as it is The Story of Jane: Jane's book, Jane's wedding, Jane's personal fight against the horror of parking meters (with a seemingly endless roll of quarters) with a few references to Mel's work on the case thrown in as almost an afterthought. While I enjoyed the first few Jane Jeffrey mysteries, I will definitely not be buying any more books in this series.
PS--Ms. Shellnut, I'm glad you liked the book. I didn't. There is no need for you to post a comment on my review as you have done on so many others explaining to me why I am wrong. Thanks!
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Very Negative Book
Review: I have been a Jill Churchill fan for a long time. I even met her at ALA convention years ago. She was delightful and personable to talk to. This is why it pains me so much to speak ill of this book & her writing.
I am going to agree with all the other negative reviews on there being no mystery. There was no mystery at all. It was just a wedding planning book. The thing is, I could almost take the no mystery mystery. What annoyed me page after page was the negativity. Apparently, Ms. Churchill has a real axe to grind with several categories of folks. I mean, who is Jane close to? Everybody but her best friend, boyfriend, parents & kids are portrayed as awful people..... Her sister, her exhusband, her past mother-in-law, her future mother-in-law, all the people who attended church with her mother-in-law, all the old ladies except for one old lady at the funeral. Even the meter maid came in for negativity. It was one bad depressing person after another. Why couldn't there be a pleasant mother-in-law tossed in for a change? It's just not pleasant to read about so many hateful unpleasant people. And mentioning racism to little children didn't make for riveting or interesting reading. In short, Jane needs to get out of the house more, meet some nice pleasant people.
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Phoned it in while watching TV
Review: Like other reviewers, I've enjoyed this series in the past, and have passed the books onto my mother, who loves them. But this one reads like a careless first draft. In addition to the plot defects, there are these boners that just made me gape: Mel is telling Jane about how his mother was so unhappy that, after he graduated from college and wanted to become a policeman, that she refused to pay for college. Wait, didn't he just graduate? Then there are these ludicrous plot points around a completely erroneous definition of "per stirpes," a term used in estate planning. Just plain wrong, jarring to a lawyer. The mothers-in-law are so bad that they are unbelievable. So's Jane's new book. What a comedown from what used to be delightful reading.
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: The Accidental Florist
Review: This book has no plot; it just rambles on about Jane writing career, and her wedding to the extremely dull and boring Mel. So instead of getting a mystery, you get a very tedious account of her wedding details. Poor Jane, her vicious former mother-in-law is totally against it and is trying to swindle her out of her shares in the family business. Lucky for Jane the old lady dies; but wait, she is replaced my Mel's cold and scheming mother. Not to worry, Jane outsmarts her, aided my her old friend Shelly. Two women die in this book, but they hardly get a mention. The sad thing about this book is that it was so mean- spirited. Most of the characters come off as mean, vindictive, scheming. I'm guessing this book is meant to be an end of the series book, and that the author was trying to tie up all the loose ends. I just can't help but thinking that the fans of this series deserved a better book to end with.