Did Not Finish: Rest in Pieces
Mrs. Murphy #2
by Rita Mae Brown

My rating: DNF, no rating
Genre: Cozy mystery

I’ve heard about this series for a while, seeing books at thrift stores often and knowing that my mom seemed to enjoy the series. I also watched a movie based on one of the books once, though I don’t remember much about it, other than that Ricki Lake plays the MC and the animals talk to each other. Still, I’ve enjoyed another series of cozy mysteries with animals (particularly a cat) in prominent roles, so I had good reason to think I might like this series.

The fault here may have been with those preconceptions, but I just don’t think I’m a good fit for the style of this book. It’s weird enough to me that the animals talk to each other (especially considering that the cat hunts mice…which it can talk to), but the animals cussing at each other, sometimes harshly, really threw me off. The inclusion of some very harsh language overall and talk of who likes to sleep around led me to start thinking I might not have it in me to keep going. Still, I plugged ahead, because I already owned 5-6 books in the series (picked up over the years from thrift stores, thankfully), and my mom did like the books, after all…for goodness sake, my parents’ dog is named Mrs. Murphy after the main cat in the series. But then when we’re introduced to Mrs. Murphy’s ex-husband (a cat, don’t forget), and we’re told about how he tends to sleep around…with other cats…I decided it was just too ridiculous for me to invest any more time into it. Maybe the series smooths out later, but I don’t care enough to find out.

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