Review:
Shauna's Uncle Jim has allowed her to borrow his boat, which she is now using to take a leisurely vacation. She lasts about three hours before her poor knowledge of knots and the distraction of a handsome young man result in great big scratches down the side of the boat.
In order to earn the money necessary to fix the boat, Shauna decides to stop for a while and work for the handsome young man's mother's quilting shop. When her new employer's electric car catches fire, the woman is convinced that the culprit is her business rival, Pat Price.
While Shauna loves investigating mysteries, this one gets her tangled up in multiple sets of loyalties. Can she figure out who the saboteur is, and also get her boat fixed?
Meh. I loved the first entry in this series. The mystery aspect was terrible, but the art was nice, the characters were quirky, and I loved The Great British Bake Off parody aspects. In this entry, we've got the great art, a few quirky characters (although only four or so are all that memorable), and I guess now we're branching off into parodying cozy mystery themes? Or something? I don't know.
Two warring quilting shops would fit right in with a cozy mystery series, but for some reason the parody aspect didn't appeal to me nearly as much this time around. And, again, the mystery was kind of terrible. I still liked the art, but Shauna and her interest in Bryn (the handsome young man) kind of annoyed me. Also, it didn't really make sense to me that the various quilting shop owners would so easily hire Shauna.
All in all, after how much I enjoyed the first volume, this was a disappointment.
Extras:
A couple character sketch pages from Max Sarin, and a larger version of the "stereogram quilt" (I still can't see the toucan on a skateboard that's supposedly hidden in the image).
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