Book: The Grand Cru Heist (Winemaker Detective Mysteries book #2) written by Jean-Pierre Alaux and Noel Balen with translations by Anne Trager
Source: Borrowed from Publisher/NetGalley for an honest review
Publication: Print: June 24, 2014 (The Kindle version is available now)
Rating: 1 star (Did Not Finish)
Review:
I did not like this at all. This book was so boring I couldn't even bother trying to finish reading it. The story spent so much time describing everything from cars to wine that the mystery didn't seem to be the focus. This story was not engaging nor interesting.
I truly found there was nothing remotely interesting in any of the characters in this book. I found the main character wine expert Benjamin Cooker be not only rude and pretentious but also slimy. I also found it rather despicable that Cooker even say he did not understanding how the Germans lost the war since his car (which was stolen from him following a carjacking) was German made. I really hope he was not referring to WWII. That's awful if he was.
After Benjamin Cooker had been carjacked, nothing else exciting happened in this slow moving story. And for a short story (less than 200 pages) you wouldn't think it would take so long for the mystery to get started.
This was such a disappointing read.
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