BOOK REVIEW: Homicide and Halo-halo by Mia P. Manansala [Tita Rosie's Kitchen Mystery #2]
If you still haven’t picked this series up, this is your sign to do it.
SUMMARY:
Things are heating up for Lila Macapagal. Not in her love life, which she insists on keeping nonexistent despite the attention of two very eligible bachelors. Or her professional life, since she can't bring herself to open her new cafe after the unpleasantness that occurred a few months ago at her aunt's Filipino restaurant, Tita Rosie's Kitchen. No, things are heating up quite literally, since summer, her least favorite season, has just started.
To add to her feelings of sticky unease, Lila's little town of Shady Palms has resurrected the Miss Teen Shady Palms Beauty Pageant, which she won many years ago--a fact that serves as a wedge between Lila and her cousin slash rival, Bernadette. But when the head judge of the pageant is murdered and Bernadette becomes the main suspect, the two must put aside their differences and solve the case--because it looks like one of them might be next.
THOUGHTS:
Homicide and Halo-halo by Mia P. Manansala is the sequel to Arsenic and Adobo, which is a cozy mystery series that I read last week and absolutely loved. After reading the first book, I immediately jumped into this sequel because I just craved for more of the author’s writing and more of the main character’s, Lila’s, adventures.
In this book, we get to dive deeper into Lila’s personal life while still getting to see and feel the cozy mystery part of the story. I can say that I love this book more than the first one because this talked more about the more serious things in life like: a) how the past can have a huge impact on our present selves and how we deal with decision-making, b) how we don’t really know what a person is capable of even if they don’t seem like a person who does certain things, c) how it’s important to not rush into romantic relationships especially if we know that we have a lot of self-healing to do, and d) how the people who really care for us will always understand us even if at times we don’t even understand ourselves.
If you still haven’t picked this series up, this is your sign to do it.
**ARC provided by the publisher in exchange of an honest review.**
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