![]() ![]() There’s the lawyer brother of her childhood bestie as well as the cute kind-of-new-to-town dentist, and while I appreciate that Lila has too much to work through at the moment to really get into a romantic something (actually kind of good for her on that), the set up that just kicks the can further to a presumed sequel doesn’t bode well. The present potential triangle seems inevitable, but I really hate that kind of thing, especially when the heroine seems to have no idea how to make a decision. Lila certainly notices when she’s got her own romantic issues, both past (wow, she’s got some bad exes, one of whom ends up murdered seriously though, the attempt to sort of redeem Derek towards the end is unnecessary and totally undermines all the lives he’s destroyed) and present. There’s obviously something going on with her Tita Rosie and a certain detective, but she (Lila and Rosie both) never even says anything. What I don’t get is how Lila can open the novel with “my life has become a rom-com cliché” but be so dense about a romance that doesn’t involve her. ![]() ![]() It pulls off one of those things better than the other. Arsenic and Adobo is a decent cozy mystery that is pretty aware that it is that, as well as a romance. ![]()
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