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Using various fortune telling tools to interpret her visions, Sunny seeks to aid the residents of Divinity, New York. But when she uses tea leaves to read the frazzled town librarian, what lies at the bottom of the cup is anything but helpful.
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3.8 out of 5 stars (36 customer reviews)
27 of 30 people found the following review helpful
2.0 out of 5 stars
Disappointed..., Aug 9 2011
By TribalCat - Published on Amazon.com
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This review is from: Tempest in the Tea Leaves (Mass Market Paperback)
The title is wonderful, and I was really looking forward to reading this book. I'm a great cozy mystery fan and always enjoy a bit of the paranormal creeping in. However, the protagonist is a 29-year-old who acts and reacts as a pre-teen would. She jumps up and down and claps her hands when she's excited, sticks her tongue out at people, and her reactions to the detective are extremely sophomoric. The woman's almost 30? There's no real depth to the book or to the characters, and the action is all superficial. We don't get to find out what anyone is thinking or feeling or who they really are or what their motivations could be. There's no background, we don't even know who Sunny really is or what makes her tick. It feels like we don't get to share experiences with the main character as she is going through them, but rather that she's just telling us what she did after the fact (she stole bugging equipment from the detective's apartment? Really? Where were we when this was happening? How did she know he even had any, or where he would keep it, and where was he while she was stealing it?) She waltzes into town and is immediately partnered up with a "god-like" detective to solve a murder in which she is supposed to be the main suspect, then her clingy, disapproving and two-dimensional parents show up to assist her. Within a couple of days of moving to the town, she knows all the history and gossip of the town, and all of the townspeople love her? I had higher hopes for this series. I gave it two stars for effort, and because the premise is cute...a tea leaf reader assists the police in solving murders, but otherwise I would have rated it a one-star read. I was ready to quit about halfway through the book, but I kept reading and hoping it would get better. It did not.
37 of 43 people found the following review helpful
2.0 out of 5 stars
the plot fell out the tea cup..., Aug 2 2011
By M. E. Justis "pack rat & book hoarder" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Tempest in the Tea Leaves (Mass Market Paperback)
I was pretty excited for this book. The premise sounded really fun, a fortune teller mystery! The book starts off with a bang, the heroine leaves her parents penthouse, and under their thumb, at 29. She promptly buys up an old Victorian house (and cat) with her trust fund and sets up shop in Divinity, NY. Her first customer is a librarian and upon reading her tea leaves, sees her death.The story went exceedingly down hill from there, Sunny (heroine) tells the police (square jawed love interest) about the murder an hour after the librarian leaves, she is arrested and let go... no one could see her killing anyone??! She drops in the town bar, gets drunk and has the big cop carry her home. A day later she's "partnered" up with him by the chief and can't seem to break a nasty habit of diarrhea-of-the-mouth through a flurry of clue-rich interviews.
I stopped reading half way though with Sunny stuck in a closet listening to some potential murderers get it on to blasting porn, she was talking to the cop fellow on her cell phone. Ugh.
The book just flew all over the place without consistent tense or tangent. The characters were flat and/or blown out of proportion. And while I don't mind subject matter in a "cozy mystery" being more PG-13+ it was unexpected in this and felt thrown in. I won't be finishing the book. It was poorly written.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
A Future Steeped in Success!!, Aug 12 2011
By Lola "B.W." - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Tempest in the Tea Leaves (Mass Market Paperback)
Tempest in the Tea Leaves, book I in the new Fortune Teller Mysteries series is such a fun read I literally couldn't put it down! I love the laugh out loud moments and the situations Sunny gets herself into. And of course her hunky partner, Detective Mitch Stone, just happens to be a non-believer which makes for more fun when he stops by her old Victorian house and meets the mysterious cat, Morty! Kari Lee Townsend goes so far as to have wonderful secondary characters who make the town come to life as Sunny digs for clues to clear her name and reputation after the local librarian is found murdered. Sunny Meadow's future may be steeped in murder, but Kari Lee Townsend's future is steeped in success with this fun, cute series! You won't want to miss it!!
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