Reading Adventures of a Curious Kat

I have to be honest … I’m a little underwhelmed. For a book called The Storm, I was anticipating high drama and edge-of-my-seat stuff. I hate to say it, but at times this felt more like being stuck inside on a rainy day watching water drip down the window pane. Not exactly the mystery-thriller vibe I was hoping for! I really loved The Heiress last year which was my first Rachel Hawkins read. The story revolved around an older sassy Southern woman of wealth named Ruby McTavish who was suspected of having a hand in the deaths of her late husbands. Though Gloria “Lo” Bailey, the MC in this one didn’t have Ruby’s wealth, she still felt strikingly similar as an older sassy Southern woman suspected of having a hand in the death of her late lover. Maybe it was just me who felt like the characters were too similar despite the women’s wealth gap? Geneva Corliss owns the Rosalie Inn in St. Medard’s Bay in Alabama - a town with a dark history of hurricanes and deaths. One of those deaths was tha...