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Summary: Better Have A Cup Of Coffee Handy
Review: A pretty decent book, I thought. Jeri is likable, and I was hooked enough to want to know what happened at the end. It wasn't a struggle to read or understand, and I'm really not that fond of mysteries, so that's saying something. However, it could have done with a little bit more excitement. The book mostly consisted of Jeri talking to various people (over coffee) and not much else. It did pick up a little bit at the end once she drew closer to the solution, but most of it was conversations and descriptions of people. Even though the book description makes it sound as if she's going to have some sort of exciting (or at least we'd hope) undercover work as a homeless person, it's really more Jeri in old clothes buying homeless people coffee and talking with them. I keep bringing up coffee, because I'm dying to know if anyone else thought the woman drank an unusual amount of the stuff. Coffee, or some kind of related beverage, pretty much plays a role in every interview she performs, which almost got to the point of excessive, at least for me. I got to the point where I didn't need to be reminded that people were drinking coffee, as I could pretty much assume that someone was sipping the stuff at all times. The affect was that I pretty much had a craving for a hot drink for about half of the novel. So maybe a little less coffee next time, as it actually started to stand out from the story. Otherwise...not too bad.
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