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Every Time I Go On Vacation, Someone Dies
By: Catherine Mack
Publication Date: April 30, 2024
Published By: Minotaur Books
352 pages
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This was different for me! Author Eleanor Dash is on a tour of Italy for his first book’s 10th anniversary. With her is her sister, Harper, Connor Smith (one of the characters in her book), and a few other authors, including her ex, Oliver. Connor believers someone is trying to kill him and enlists Eleanor to help him figure it out. It seems that whoever it is doesn’t have their sights just set on Connor. Now everyone is a suspect. Secrets are revealed, fun is had, and everyone is suspicious of everyone.
This cozy mystery is hilarious and clever. It’s written very differently than anything that I have read and I loved it that way! The tone was very conversational, and that’s because literally Eleanor is having a conversation with you about what is happening thereby breaking the “fourth wall.” This made it very easy to read and very easy to be engaged in the book.
There is murder, mystery and romance in this book. So it was all my favorite things in one book, so that was great. It was easy to like Eleanor because she seemed to be very self aware. I liked most of the other characters too, except Connor, but I believe that was don’t purposefully.
For me, the setting in Italy helped make the book. I went to Italy on my honeymoon, and to the places that were talked about in the book: The Vatican, The Coliseum, Sorrento, Capri, Anacapri, and Ravello!
I will say this – there were almost 200 footnotes and after a while, it did get a bit annoying. Especially because the footnote would be a page or two later and then I would have to remember what line was footnoted. I did like the idea, but the amount of them was excessive.
Overall, a great read and I will read more in this series!
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