{I've Been Reading} Bait and Swiss

 Bait and Swiss by Korina Moss

The Cheese Shop mysteries embody everything that first got me hooked on cozy mysteries. It's fun to immerse yourself in someone else's world and Willa's Cheeseboard Cafe is a perfect place to vicariously escape to. I didn't reread the description before starting the book, so I wasn't expecting any of what happened and I'm not going to spoil the fun for you by revealing the details. There's a murder and it hits close to home so there's a definite sense of urgency to Willa's investigation. The cheese shop sounds as delicious as ever. I almost stopped reading at one point to see if a particular recipe was included in the back of the book because it sounded so tempting. This is one of the best books in a great series. 

What Kind of Paradise by Janelle Brown

For as long as she can remember, seventeen-year-old Jane has lived alone with her father in the cabin. They visit town on rare occasions so that he can drop off copies of his zine at a local bookstore and she has one friend she communicates with by phone, but until the day her father brings home a laptop and connects them to the internet, she's been alone with her father and his theories. Once he goes online in hopes of reaching a wider audience with his manifesto, everything changes. Set in the mid-nineties in the early days of the internet, this book immediately caught my interest and held it through the end. 

What Happened to Lucy Vale by Lauren Oliver

This definitely wasn't what I was expecting. It starts out with a cast of characters that spans several pages. The chapters alternate between Rachel Vale and "We." We is (or are?) the local high school students and includes lots and lots of quotes from their Discord server. Those chapters were meandering and kind of overwhelming. The chapters told from Lucty's mother's point of view are, by comparison, a little boring. I didn't love it.