Stella starts Bungled: A Rylie Cooper Mystery out with a great hook, George the part-time park ranger explains to Rylie how to get yourself out of zip-tie handcuffs. Well, now I need to drop everything and read this book to find out if and when Stella is going to need to get herself out of handcuffs. As if that wasn't enough, then there are all the comments by friends and family members asking Rylie if she's sure she should get married. What a great distraction of a book!
I appreciated how Stella made a fishing tournament interesting for someone who doesn't fish. Her descriptions of how a fishing tournament works and ways one might try to cheat are seamlessly part of the narrative making sure they don't become information dumps for the reader.
The mystery keeps you reading and guessing about who did it and why, and the side characters are properly quirky. The book ends with Rylie questions her life choices and that is a good place to end things and get the reader interested in what will come next!
4 stars for Bungled: A Rylie Cooper Mystery. The perfect book to take with you fishing! Click here to add it to your Goodreads TBR.
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