This was an excellent read till the love triangle started and this is a cozy mystery trope that makes me run for the mountains.
The book has all the issues of the first in a cozy series: the characters are a bit green, the mystery is interesting but directly involves the MC, the entire cast of characters is under development.
There's a lot of potential in this instalment and I hope it will be developed in the next instalment: the bookstore, the small town atmosphere, the quirky seniors.
I hope that in the next instalment the love triangle situation will be solved, Arlo and Chloe (stille in love after years after he left you pregnant? Seriously ?) will solve some of her self-esteem issues.
I also hope that the author will study some cat behaviour because I think that the poor cat suffering from separation anxiety would be totally unmanageable after all the changes.
I am curious about what will come next, at the moment I think that even if I liked the mystery it was not exactly my cup of tea.
Many thanks to the publisher and Netgalley for this ARC, all opinions are mine.