Fiber Fool

Of course everyone else has been reading the final Harry Potter book. However, our pre-order has not yet arrived at nearly 6pm on Saturday! And DH will be reading it first. So, because I ran across spoilers when reading blogs last time I will not be reading blogs until I get my chance to read the book. I think we are on the verge of giving up our Amazon Prime order arriving and may see if we can locate a copy locally. This is one problem with a Saturday release. If something goes wrong with your delivery you have days to wait to get stuff straightened out! *sigh*

This week though I did get a book read, Snow Blind by mother-daughter duo P.J. Tracy. It is the fourth and most recent installment in the Monkeewrench series featuring Minneapolis detectives Leo Magozzi and Gino Rolseth who are backed up by the Mokeewrench geeks.

In this installment a mild Minneapolis winter breaks out of its rut and a couple bodies are discovered at festival attended by scores of families. Soon it appears copycats are popping up elsewhere, but all the clues keep leading back to a sleepy small town north of Minneapolis. An inexperienced new sheriff gets to deal with one of the cases on her first day and she had previously never left the dispatch desk. With the aid of one of her deputies and Magozzi and Rolseth her seemingly never ending first day comes to a head.

I enjoyed the book, though not as much as the third book. Here the Monkeewrench gang only made a few brief appearances, never playing a very significant role in the plot. Grace and her cronies and their interactions with themselves and Magozzi and Rolseth are the most entertaining to me.

I also decided with this fourth read that these books are very formulaic. That shouldn’t be too surprising for mass market murder mystery/thriller book. However, they glaringly followed the same prescribed path as the previous books. They all seem to open with the reader witnessing the minutes leading to the main murder and then we’re off and following the detectives around. Even following the detectives around is pretty predictable if you’ve read the previous books very recently. The last one I read was a coupe months ago yet the similarities were still very obvious. Due to that I am glad that I’ve got up to them. As far as I know a 5th book is not coming up on release in the very near future.

Oh, and if you are Shelfari, I’m over there as well as fiberfool. I mostly have only cataloged my fiber arts library and the books I’ve read so far in 2007, most of which are library books. But look me up so we can exchange reading recommendations.