By: Josi S. Kilpack
Sadie is at it again.
Another body, another mystery.
Her motives and objective are different, and her life is starting to
look like a teenage girl’s with too many boyfriends to choose from (don’t worry
it’s still clean).
Summary
When Sadie’s new friend, Eric, gets a call from the Florida
police saying they may have found his daughter who has been missing for several
years, Eric doesn’t hesitate to jump on a plane and head down there. Before he leaves he asks Sadie to come with
him. Sadie is torn. She’s in a relationship (which at the moment
is rocky) with Pete, but also wants to be there for her friend Eric. Sadie also suspects that her feelings toward
Eric are more than just friendship. She
wants to see if go-with-the-flow Eric is more suited for her than steady and
stable Pete.
Sadie goes.
Sadie and Eric find out a lot about each other and about
themselves. The question is, are they
ready to face the truth. Is Sadie ready
to face the truth about her feelings and why she ultimately went to Florida? Is Eric ready to face the truth about his
daughter? Could the truth be too much
for him to bear? How she disappeared and
where she ended up.
How This Book is Different
It becomes clear in the first several chapters Sadie and
Eric are not looking for the murderer, they are trying to find out if Eric’s
daughter is still alive, and if so where is she. This differs from the previous books in the
series in that there is a murder and Sadie is looking for the murderer, not a
missing person who may or may not be dead.
Sadie’s motives are also different in Key Lime Pie. Instead of
curiosity being the main reason she desires to solve the mystery (as it has
been in the previous two books), Sadie’s desire is to help Eric.
Relationships also start to bubble in this book. Sadie has to choose between Pete and
Eric. Where is her heart? In the series Sadie has never had an
emotional conflict before. Not only do
these things develop Sadie’s character more, but they also add depth to the
series as a whole.
Personal Review
This is the book that kept me reading. If Key
Lime Pie were about another murder to solve I probably wouldn’t have kept
reading onto book number five. But
because Key Lime Pie was more about
Sadie’s development and choices I wanted to continue with the series to find
out what happened to Sadie, not about
what happened in the next mystery, although the next mystery is nothing like
the previous ones!
I thought Pete’s and Eric’s characters were very well done
in this book. I have found that many of
Kilpack’s characters are flat, meaning they don’t have much depth to them and can
be traded out with one another. Not Pete
and Eric. These two men are
non-interchangeable. Though we have
known Pete since Lemon Tart, and he’s
not a big character in the previous books, there is a depth to him in Key Lime Pie that is not seen in any of
the previous books. As for Eric, we have
only met him in Devil’s Food Cake,
yet I felt as if I knew him while reading Key
Lime Pie. He is only physically
present for about half the book. At the
end of it I had a good idea of what his character was like, and who I thought
Sadie should choose to be with.
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