Meet Your Baker

Okay let???s talk about The Professor.

The greatest parts of this book were the few glimmering moments that The Professor took the stage. He was handsome, sage, and he had a backstory that everyone knew except the reader. He was a font of perfectly timed Shakespeare quotes. Was he an ageless spirit that roamed the world and ultimately landed in Ashland where he became the head detective and the first person called to every crime scene. And biggest of all, was he seducing the main character???s mother?!

How do I care about Juliet with a pure talent like The Professor playing the understudy? I wanted to follow him around, see what his life is like. He might not mechanically wake up every morning and bake what seemed like thousands of pastries. He wasn???t going to care about $12 missing from the cash register, go through the failing finances of his family bakery, and subsequently give away what felt like hundreds of baked goods to the firefighters. And what was with the forest fire? Was it trying to mislead the reader? Was the author warning us about climate change and how it affects our beloved Shakespeare festival? Either way The Professor could be in the pantheon of great detectives: Poirot, Holmes, Fletcher. But alas his story was second to Juliet and her boring life.

If the only way to learn more about The Professor is to read another Ellie Alexander book then I will stick to dreaming about what could have been.