This book was a cozy simple mystery. Honestly I enjoyed it though I expected a few more twists. I enjoyed that every character had it’s completely own personality and the authors weren’t all the same. Also, adding the recipes at the end?? CUTEST IDEA!!

Book Title: Deadlines and Valentines
Author: Heather Weidner

What a rollercoaster of book this was.

Welcome to Fern Valley’s Love is in the Air Book Festival. “Hello. I’m Jules Keene, owner of the Fern Valley Luxury Camping Resort.

Yes, so this Book was a tapestry woven with true crime, suspense, thrilling and gut wrenching plots. I Love each and every character both for their beautiful and ugly side. The book also has some hilarious and jealousy filled rivalry between author's and how it turns so nasty that one of them even end up losing their life.

The book title won't give us the hint about the mystery involved but I really loved how it was written beautifully with a back story of Valentines day and the book festival. I thoroughly enjoyed this book as it was a fresh read for me except that mystery and crime part.

I love Jules character the most. How she was patient & hospitable to her author guest and dealt with all their unrealistic tantrums and showing interest in their personal well-being.

The thing I found confusing was there were too many pen names given to the author making it difficult to recollect who's who, but luckily kindle made it easy with the highlighting feature and later in the book they were referred by one singular name throughout their multiple pen names. To name a few here are some quirky author names,i.e Cinnamon Moon’s, Allegra Rhodes’s, Gigi Johnson. It’s short for Virginia.”, Phoenix Abbott or Tracey Davis & Echo Aames,” and last but not the least Windsor Abernathy.

I really loved the quirky banter of Gigi with echo and phoenix all three of them had air to grind 😁.

Secondly the bitter sweet rant of Windsor and her assistant Tiffany. The thing I Love this most was Jules endearment towards this book festival and how she stood through the thicks and thins to make it a memorable one for all the authors and the guest attending the festival. I really loved how every event was beautifully and gloriously planned making me feel mentally present at this book festival. And the friendship between Jules and Gwen pixel is unmissable.

All in all this book was a breather for me as it got me out of my reading slump. Although I waded a bit through some page but I devoured each and every page of it. The best part is that it's written in a conversational tone making it a fast paced read.

I highly recommend this book to everyone who loves books with a blend of mystery in it to give this book a read.

Courtesy to netgalley, level best books,Independent Book Publishers Association & Author Heather Weidner for the advance review copy.

Kept seeing this book on goodreads so I was so happy to be picked to read it. Loved this book, very interesting and keeps you hooked until the very end

<b>What I loved:</b>
-This is exactly what I was hoping for: a cute valentine's murder mystery. It's a cute short story/book, so I will definitely recommend this to those looking for a quicker, fun read.
-Quick murder mystery, Scooby Doo style, super fun whodunit.
-Perfect spooky fun read with Valentine's vibes thrown in.

<b>What I didn't love:</b>
-There are a lot of characters which is difficult to keep track of.
-The transitions from scene to scene/environment to environment can be slightly confusing as the book goes back and forth without a substantial visual formatted transition.
-The writing style is not my favorite. It's not passive tense but it's not a casual tense, and this book is rather causal. This is a personal preference I believe. This may just not be the right book for me personally is all. You might love it.


Thank you for the opportunity to read this ARC book and leave an honest review! I received an advance review copy for free, and I am leaving this review voluntarily.