The Lemon Drop Kid

By: Josh Lanyon

Narrated by: Andrew Gibson

How The Cookie Crumbled

As sole heir to the Bredahl Cookies and Cakes fortune, Casper led a comfortable, happy-go-lucky life. Some would say, a charmed life.

Sure, there were challenges: relentless pressure to join the family business, and his unrequited feelings for former high school crush Raleigh Jackson. But yeah, a charmed existence, compared to life after being arrested for murder and spending nearly a year in Chippewa Falls County Jail, awaiting trial.

Exoneration, freedom, came at too steep a price. To say Casper isn’t in the mood for the holidays, is putting it mildly. In fact, the only thing he wants for Christmas is to see Detective Raleigh Jackson, the man responsible for wrongly putting him behind bars, get his just desserts.

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Josh Lanyon never disappoint!

What a fantastic listen. Kept me engaged from beginning to end! Really enjoy the complex hate-love dynamic. If you are a fan of Josh Lanyon's works or never read any of her book before, then this is a must.

Not one of Josh’s best SPOILER ALERT

The plot had potential. The romance was believable, but formulaic. Characters were not explored in depth. If their backstories were more detailed it may have explained their current motivations and reactions. The ending. SPOILER: If a character embezzled vast $ over years, where was it, how did they spend it? Modern sleeping pills aren’t fatal.

Poor Baby

The mystery was easy to solve. The personality of the lead character came across as whiny. Part of that has to do with the fact that he'd gotten out of jail and his sister had committed suicide but absolutely no one cut this guy any slack. I'd bought the book because it's Christmas and the book was set at the Yuletide. I think if it had been better thought out it could have been a good book.

This was to short.

The books story was so intriguing that I found myself not wanting it to end. the only issue I found in the story was the final conflict between the couple that lasted until the epilogue. Why would you wait until the last chapter to finish the conflict between the couple, the epilogue no less. I found myself interested in the layers of grief that this book portrayed. The narrator did good with this book. I however won't lisson to this again, I hate that the conflict between lasted so long. The fact that the epilogue was used for fixing the couples issues instead of showing character growth upset me. This book would of been amazing if it was give more chapters and gotten rid of that last conflict. The last conflict felt unnecessary and could have been taken out to focus more on the couples relationship growth.

Delivers like a favorite cocktail.

Here's hoping there's more to come. I'm inspired to hear more of this story. Another interesting place and charactures made by this author.