Jessa Maxwell's The Golden Spoon
Great premise on this, but I found the execution unsatisfying. It’s billed as a murder mystery set at a show that is basically GBBO but set in Vermont, but the murder doesn’t happen until 80 percent of the way in, and there are really no mystery elements at all. (Someone is also sabotaging the bakers, but the author immediately shows the reader who that is.) And the characters, aside from one reveal, aren’t interesting enough on their own. In the back half, a lot of the POV sections don’t feel real/authentic at all, and things feel pretty predictable. Maybe this was a marketing issue, but I was pretty disappointed. B/B-.
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