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Summary: A very enjoyable read
Review: Ok, Agatha is not perfect. She is still too obsessed with James Lacey and keeps on getting together (for a night at least) with that idiot, Sir Charles Fraith. She has her faults but these books are just plain funny. I love Agatha! I laughed out loud at the end of the story (don't want to give away the surprise ending) and eagerly look forward to move visits to Carsely. By the way, has anyone else noticed how the spelling of this village seems to change... Sometimes its Carsley, sometimes Carsely.... in the same book!
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Summary: boring, far-fetched and full of its own cliches
Review: The last three Agatha Raisin books have shown a decided drop in readability--plot, character growth, etc.--but this is the worst. It is boring, far-fetched and full of its own cliches...M.C. Beaton is obviously writing for money, not for pleasure--or any respect for the reader's intelligence! Agatha should be killed in the next book (and I'm sure there will be one) so that we can all breath a sigh of relief.
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Summary: Not Mrs. Raisin's best
Review: This book was not as dismal as the last Agatha Raisin mystery but it isn't much better. I could not get involved with the plot or feel any connection to the characters. M.C. Beaton seems to have forgotten what made Agatha Raisin such an endearing heroine. I felt in this one that Agatha herself was the murderer as she caused the murder to happen due to her boredom. I hate to give up on the series but this one didn't cause me to want to keep reading them. And please, let's return Aggie to the woman of the 90's that she is and resolve this mess with James once and for all! I hope the Hamish McBeth series doesn't take the same nosedive as this one did.
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Summary: This lost it umph at the end....
Review: This book was really great and it seemed to loose something at the end.I love all the characters Agatha Raisin is in contact with.
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Summary: One-note Agatha Raisin
Review: Though I remain a staunch supporter of the Agatha Raisin series, its plot staples (Agatha's unrequited love for James, her feeling displaced in the Cotswolds, her battles with weight and the signs of old age) are wearing thin. In the Wizard of Evesham, there is not even the tinge of humor that marked the first few entries in the Agatha series. I read this novel in the dashed hope that M C Beaton would finally make Agatha fuller character. Yet Agatha persists in coming across as two-dimensional, a cardboard cutout. As for the "mystery," it fell flat. Rather than taking a truly active role in the storyline, Agatha blunders through the story. It hardly seems in character that a tough businesswoman would be such a victim in any aspect of her life. Elements from past novels were recycled (Agatha buying catered food, passing it off as her own. Agatha "solving" a crime by placing herself in the killer's hands.) If Agatha must remain a cardboard figure, why not explore the lives of the others in the village of Carsley? Though the vicar's wife, Mrs. Bloxby, is made to seem a paragon of Christian charity and humility, I sense each time she appears a more sinister side could be lurking just beneath the surface. It is the mark of a truly poor book when a secondary character draws a reader's interest more than the titular main character. Let's have more and BETTER Agatha Raisin.
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