Title: Pass it up
Product review: This book read more like a travel guide to New Orleans than a mystery. While the scrapbooking theme provides a feasible way to introduce characters and provides insight into this popular craft, the book doled out too much didactic info about Mardi Gras, the different parades, the names and locations of the popular bars and restuarants and the history of the city. If it had been presented in a casual by-the-way style, maybe I could be more tolerant, but 25% of the way through the tour, I began to wonder if the Louisiana Board of Tourism had commissioned the book. There was too much repetition--I remembered the colors of Mardi Gras after the first time I was told. The mystery wasn't engaging and the ending was flat. In fact, I leafed through the recipes at the end of the book hoping that there had been a mistake and that a beefed-up conclusion had printed out of order. No such luck.
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