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Title: The Crepes of Wrath (Pennsylvania Dutch Mysteries with Recipes (Paperback)) by Tamar Myers ISBN: 0-451-20322-4 Publisher: Signet Book Pub. Date: 01 January, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.46 (26 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Edited Better than Previous
Comment: I have two main complaints with this series. One is that the books need to be edited since there are usually quite a few mistakes. The other is that Magdalena's stories and sayings get very repetitive after awhile. I'm glad to say that this book seems to have addressed my first complaint a bit. There are not so many glaring editorial mistakes. Unfortunately, not so for the second complaint. It is still repetitive, but Ms. Myers does introduce some new sayings, and does not dwell so much on Magdalena's stories. In this book one of the only "bad" Amish cooks in the world dies from an overdose of "angel dust". Now how did a religious, simple person like Lizzie Mast ingest a recreational drug? Magdalena is deputized by her nemesis Melvin to find out. As usual she unmasks the killer with some risk to herself, but before she does that she discovers that recreational drugs are not so unheard-of in the young Amish community. I enjoyed this book much more than I have the other most recent additions to the series. And Magdalena is still funny.
Rating: 4
Summary: ANOTHER PUNNY PENN-DUTCH TREAT
Comment: Its back to Amish country and Magdalena Yoder's PennDutch Inn. This is the ninth book in Myers' series, and while I still enjoy reading the books I do wish Magdalena would come up with a few new colloquial expressions for her repertory. Right now the books are starting to seem one expressions shy of originality. But I still enjoy reading them.
Magdalena has been very successful in turning her family farmhouse into a fashionable fantasy for the rich and famous who enjoy paying outrageous amounts to experience the genuine Amish lifestyle (or Magdalena's version of it) for themselves. Anyway, Magdalena is a magnet for murder, and this time around the victim is Lizzie Mast, the world's worst cook. It seems like someone has done her in with a drug overdose, which is hardly the Amish thing to do.
Magdalena is called in to bumble her way through the facts and resolve the murder. Along the way she has to put up with rambunctious Amish teens, drug dealers and the wacky residents of her inn.
The recipes in this book are really superficial to the plot since they really don't relate to the action of it anyway, and they didn't inspire me to give any of them a try. (They're also all from the same cookbook.) The book was a pleasant read, and like the other books in the series it gets my **** rating.
Rating: 4
Summary: Great fun
Comment: Sometimes we forget that a book of fiction is primarily to entertain the reader, to cause the reader to forget for a while his or her "otherwise drab and wretched life." I borrow that phrase without shame from Tom Lehrer.
This book is certainly an entertainment. The plot isn't all that much, I'll admit. Otherwise, I'd have given it five stars. However, I am just enthralled with Magdalena Portulacca Yoder, the skinny, middle-aged Mennonite innkeeper who runs around Hernia, Pennsylvania, with a small kitty asleep in her bra. If you haven't read the book, you won't believe that or understand it at all. Trust me, she does. And when that kitty is awakened suddenly, well....
The Amish and Mennonite neighbors (along with the "English" inn guests and neighbors) are also memorable--quirky but surely alive. The town itself and the country inn provide a fine atmosphere, one I would like to visit. My only reservation is the thinnish plot and a rather vague resolution, but at least we didn't get a confession and then a suicide.
I will definitely read more books by Tamar Myers. Thank you. You made me laugh outloud, and I haven't done that with a novel since "The Confederacy of Dunces."
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