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Letty Campbell inherited a chicken farm in Yorkshire from her aunt. Two years later, she’s got her hands full with an obstreperous rooster, an ex-girlfriend with a too-good-to-be-true financial offer, a librarian who’s coming out late and needs Letty to show her the lesbian social scene, and the librarian’s straight niece who loves cars.
The chicken farm is a great setting though occasionally under-researched, the 90s lesbian scene in England is also a great setting that clearly didn’t need to be researched at all as it has the distinct ring of lived experience, and Letty is a hilarious narrator.
What could possibly go wrong with this book? Well, after 168 pages of hijinks in a book that’s 177 pages total, we suddenly get this (not offensive, just bizarre): ”They’re exchanging drugs for weapons. Plutonium. A fucking nuclear bomb!”
96% delightful romantic comedy with a fun setting and charming cast, 4% OMGWTFBBQ mystery/action plot that comes 100% out of nowhere. I can’t help suspecting that the latter was inserted to make the book more commercial, but it is incredibly obviously not where Fritchley’s heart is – so much so that in the wrap-up, Letty mentions that if we want an explanation for the action plot, we can read the newspaper. No we can’t, this is FICTION!
I enjoyed this a lot overall and there are definitely worse flaws a book could have than a sudden swerve into “Oops, I guess this needs a mystery plot, who cares if it makes any sense?” However, I have been tipped off that my favorite supporting characters are only in the first book, so I’ll probably leave it at that.
Chicken Run (Letty Campbell Mysteries)
The chicken farm is a great setting though occasionally under-researched, the 90s lesbian scene in England is also a great setting that clearly didn’t need to be researched at all as it has the distinct ring of lived experience, and Letty is a hilarious narrator.
What could possibly go wrong with this book? Well, after 168 pages of hijinks in a book that’s 177 pages total, we suddenly get this (not offensive, just bizarre): ”They’re exchanging drugs for weapons. Plutonium. A fucking nuclear bomb!”
96% delightful romantic comedy with a fun setting and charming cast, 4% OMGWTFBBQ mystery/action plot that comes 100% out of nowhere. I can’t help suspecting that the latter was inserted to make the book more commercial, but it is incredibly obviously not where Fritchley’s heart is – so much so that in the wrap-up, Letty mentions that if we want an explanation for the action plot, we can read the newspaper. No we can’t, this is FICTION!
I enjoyed this a lot overall and there are definitely worse flaws a book could have than a sudden swerve into “Oops, I guess this needs a mystery plot, who cares if it makes any sense?” However, I have been tipped off that my favorite supporting characters are only in the first book, so I’ll probably leave it at that.
Chicken Run (Letty Campbell Mysteries)
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