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Dec. 7th, 2018 09:44 pmI realize that there are still three weeks left in the year and this is tempting fate a little, but I'm pretty sure I did it: I found the absolute worst book I will read this year.
I want it stated for the record: I have gotten a lot better about not compulsively finishing everything once I start it if it's absolutely horrific. Unfortunately, I brought Someone Is Killing The Great Chefs of Europe along on a day I had a lot of public transit to do and I didn't have any other books with me, and so, to my regret, I read the entire thing anyway.
The plot: famous gourmand and magazine editor Achille van Golk is dying of obesity, so he decides to murder all his favorite chefs in revenge. This isn't a spoiler, it's in the first chapter of the book.
The rest of the novel involves several chefs being gruesomely murdered while Natasha, Achille's favorite dessert chef, comes under suspicion for their deaths. She also has a lot of really unfortunately described sex, some with doomed chefs and some with police officials and some with her ex-husband who is also the romantic lead, because this is that kind of book.
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...all that said, Someone is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe is an amazing title and despite my regrets, I still think my decision to buy it from the dollar bin was a reasonable choice given the information I had at the time.
I want it stated for the record: I have gotten a lot better about not compulsively finishing everything once I start it if it's absolutely horrific. Unfortunately, I brought Someone Is Killing The Great Chefs of Europe along on a day I had a lot of public transit to do and I didn't have any other books with me, and so, to my regret, I read the entire thing anyway.
The plot: famous gourmand and magazine editor Achille van Golk is dying of obesity, so he decides to murder all his favorite chefs in revenge. This isn't a spoiler, it's in the first chapter of the book.
The rest of the novel involves several chefs being gruesomely murdered while Natasha, Achille's favorite dessert chef, comes under suspicion for their deaths. She also has a lot of really unfortunately described sex, some with doomed chefs and some with police officials and some with her ex-husband who is also the romantic lead, because this is that kind of book.
...all that said, Someone is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe is an amazing title and despite my regrets, I still think my decision to buy it from the dollar bin was a reasonable choice given the information I had at the time.