Rating: 2/5
Review
Not really for me
I’m afraid I didn’t get on with Cherry Slice. It’s well enough
written but I found it slow, rather derivative and not as funny as it
tries to be.
Cherry Hinton was a
local journalist but after a humiliating public failure on a TV
reality show while working undercover is now working in her parents’
cake shop in a small Essex town. She is asked to look into the
apparently cut-and-dried murder of a contestant on another reality
show which was filmed on live TV.
It’s a cosy murder
mystery used as a vehicle for satirising modern mores: behaviour on
Twitter, gutter journalism, cheap and tawdry “reality” TV shows
and so on. Although it was mildly amusing in parts, it didn’t
really work for me; the satire wasn’t very new, very little
actually happened for quite a long time and the humour didn’t
really amuse. For example, a lot of people (including the title
character), are given manes which are adaptations or puns on place
names like Jacob Stow, Leon Solent, Jodrell Banks (oh, come on!) and
so on, which I just found annoying, I’m afraid.
I’m sorry to say
that I gave up in the end. Several other reviewers have enjoyed
this, but I’m afraid it wasn’t for me.
(Mt thanks to
Farrago for an ARC via NetGalley.)
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