If you can't invest in the characters, why invest in the mystery? In fact, when the book was finished, I turned the page and thought: where's the rest of it? Yep. Which means that the murder mystery wasn't interesting. She goes right back to being the nasty person she is - which should have made Maxie pack right up and go back to her home, wherever that is (we have no idea, of course).
When Sylvia was exonerated - which we knew she would be, so no surprise there - is she grateful? Nope.
There just wasn't anything to bring us into the characters, to liven them up, to make them a little bit human. We don't find out about Nick's background either. We never find out what makes either of them tick, nothing about their personalities. Maxie, however, loves her father and is in it so she can figure out where he is and bring him home.īut when Sylvia is arrested, she's on her own, and her personality doesn't get any better, either. She's only in it for what she can get out of it (and I'm not explaining that any further). Then we find out that Sylvia doesn't care whether her father is found or not. So what's the reason? Her mother poisoning her against her father? Yeah, that's healthy. We also find out that he spent every summer with both his daughters, so it isn't because he never spent any time with her. So Jack left Sylvia's mother when she was younger than that to marry Maxie's, so it can't be memories of him leaving her, because there wouldn't be any. From what we're told, Sylvia is two years older than Maxie.
We never get to find out why they hate each other. Sylvia is self-centered, selfish, mean, and an out-and-out horrible person, while Maxie is just annoying. First off, Maxie and Sylvia are downright nasty people. This is the first in this series, and unfortunately it's going to be the last one that I'm going to read. So Maxie's working on her own, and trying to stay away from a killer. She's also hoping for help from the hot security guard Nick - whom Sylvia also has her eye on - but he wants her to leave it to the police. Later on, she finds that Sylvia's been arrested for Roberto's murder, and Maxie decides to help her by finding out who killed him. What ensues is a very childish scene in which Maxie accidentally spills her bowl of chili on Carter while trying to get around Sylvia and when she opens Carter's RV to get a towel for him, the body of Roberto tumbles down on her. Then, when hotshot television chef Carter Donnelly shows up, she tries to get him to try some of her father's chili that she had already made, but her sister Sylvia tries to sabotage her by getting him to try some of her own creation. Sylvia mainly does everything else.īut it seems Maxie had a bad date the evening before with a man named Roberto, where he got into a bar fight and ignored her the entire evening, so when he shows up wanting to see her again, and pretty much telling her it's because she has a reputation on the circuit for being "easy." she has a very public fight with him. Maxie's job is mainly to wear the Chili Chick costume and dance around to draw attention to their trailer. They belong to a group of people who travel from town to town doing this. Maxie Pierce and her half sister Sylvia have taken over their father's business - which is to go from place to place selling his chili ingredients and making chili so that customers will try it and purchase items. Later on in the review, I'll inform everyone why. Logan's books, and I can't tell you whether I'll make another one or not.