Juniper Bean Resorts to Murder by Gracie Ruth Mitchell.

The book opens with the main character inadvertently being set up on a blind date with her own brother by her friends. And if that’s not enough, the moment gets rehashed throughout the book multiple times. At one point, her love interest drops this riveting line:

“You can’t go around licking people, Juniper.”

I was listening on audiobook but I don’t believe I got that far. The dialogue was terrible and unbelievable. It was trying to hard to be funny. While it’s meant to be a cozy mystery, the plot was so flat. The characters felt like caricatures and…it was just cringe all around.

Thanks for clarifying. I had no idea about the anti fanfic stuff. I’ll probably spend a night going down that rabbit hole.

I suspect her Christian, anti-fanfic phase was a result of mental illness and manipulation from the publishers, although I don’t think she ever apologized.

I’m confused by this part because it sounds like you’re conflating her conversion and her anti-fan fic phase and so I thought you were saying she converted to Christianity due to manipulation and mental illness. I used to be an evangelical Christian and from I understood when I read about it is that she was genuinely interested until she got tired of the hypocrisy. She is quoted saying she didn’t realize the lengths the church would go to prevent same-sex marriage. I don’t think she was coerced into anything but you can correct me.