About the book
BOOK SUMMARY
Best friends Benny and Joy like to say they’ve been saving each other’s lives since the moment they met. Until the day Joy disappears and Benny is suspected of murder.
Published 2026
Mystery
368 pages
Cringy rom-com, boring mystery
May 13, 2026
I am so sorry to Tiffany Crum, but this book just did not do it for me. It was more rom-com than mystery, and I thought the rom-com part was cringy to get through. Benny and Joy have that grown-child-type dialogue that appears often in modern romance for some reason, and I do not find it charming at all. Their friendship situation made no sense. I was bored by the plot. The conclusion was pretty far-fetched. The dumb cop stereotype was aggravating (it’s 2026, you’re telling me that a police officer would be in open disbelief that someone could make a living from a podcast?)
It wasn’t terrible to read, but it didn’t bring anything special to the table, and I imagine it will quickly be lost and forgotten in the vast sea of mediocre suspense and romance novels published each week.
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