3.5, rounded up. Cute humorous story about a woman who is fleeced in a grandparent scam and decides to try to find who took her money.
I loved Loretta Plansky! Despite being a widow in her 70s and recovering from a hip replacement in the near past, she is full of grit and determination. She and her husband invented the Plansky Toaster Knife and had amassed a decent nest egg, so she is determined to get back what is rightfully hers. This book is light and humorous and the perfect summer read if you want to be entertained. Not sure I would call it a cozy mystery because there's no real mystery to be solved, more like a cozy adventure novel.
There were a few things that bugged me, and I think much of that was due to the fact that I listened to much of this book as an audiobook. The narrator is great, but there's some repetitiveness with regards to Mrs. Plansky's inability to remember certain things and with not knowing if she said something out loud or not. Does that really happen? It has never happened to me that I was so lost in my reverie that I didn't know if I spoke out loud. I don't think I would have noticed this so much on the page.
If you're looking for a sweet, refreshing read for the summer, then definitely pick this one up.
I loved Loretta Plansky! Despite being a widow in her 70s and recovering from a hip replacement in the near past, she is full of grit and determination. She and her husband invented the Plansky Toaster Knife and had amassed a decent nest egg, so she is determined to get back what is rightfully hers. This book is light and humorous and the perfect summer read if you want to be entertained. Not sure I would call it a cozy mystery because there's no real mystery to be solved, more like a cozy adventure novel.
There were a few things that bugged me, and I think much of that was due to the fact that I listened to much of this book as an audiobook. The narrator is great, but there's some repetitiveness with regards to Mrs. Plansky's inability to remember certain things and with not knowing if she said something out loud or not. Does that really happen? It has never happened to me that I was so lost in my reverie that I didn't know if I spoke out loud. I don't think I would have noticed this so much on the page.
If you're looking for a sweet, refreshing read for the summer, then definitely pick this one up.