{"id":20865,"date":"2022-10-09T19:45:50","date_gmt":"2022-10-09T23:45:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/?p=20865"},"modified":"2023-09-23T17:42:38","modified_gmt":"2023-09-23T21:42:38","slug":"blackmail-and-bibingka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/20865","title":{"rendered":"Blackmail and Bibingka"},"content":{"rendered":"

Blackmail and Bibingka<\/a><\/em> (2022) Mia P. Manansala<\/a> (Tita Rosie’s Kitchen Mystery)<\/p>\n

\"Blackmail<\/a>As previously, I finished this story with a slight pang of disappointment. <\/p>\n

It’s not bad–not at all–but I want it to be just a tiny bit better. <\/p>\n

I think it was the mystery that was the issue. I guessed pretty quickly who was involved in the crime–mostly because the other suspects were written far more sympathetically. I think she doesn’t want to like her criminals, so they don’t have a ton of personality, or Lila doesn’t get along with them. <\/p>\n

Which is fine, but it is a bit of a give away.<\/p>\n

And we kept getting conflicting views of Denise’s first husband, and not only was that never resolved, Lila never questions it. <\/p>\n

But it was fun and I was able to borrow it from the library, so all good.<\/p>\n

Publisher: Berkley<\/p>\n

Rating: 7\/10<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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