A Berry Terrible Truth: A Cozy Kylie Berry Mystery

Thank you to Booksprout for providing this ARC.I had a big problem with this one. I usually find cozy mysteries charming, but this one just had so much going on. Seems like a spoof or a common cozy mystery. Everything is over described, all the tropes and common themes are hit, and and everyone is overly excited that our MC is taking on a murder case.  Seriously, you've got a girl running a cafe (though she can't cook), a knitting crew helping her solve murders, and the classic two boyfiends (one is a cop of course). There is an obvious favorite boyfriend, too. I don't know about in the other books, but in this one, she really only spent time with one  with just brief nods to the other, and everyone was telling her to break up with that one she barely saw. Also, I am really confused by the whole coffee shop/diner/bakery thing going on. I will admit this is the first in the series I've read so maybe it is explained more in another book, but where is everything? The grill is in front with the staff  and the kitchen/bakery is in the back? But then Jonathan is supposed to switch from the grill to the bakery? Also the cat roaming around in the food/front of house area is a huge violation. And if this lady can't cook, why is she wasting all her time and money to make food she knows is just going to be tossed? Like she tried to make a whole breakfast bake that was thrown out. How does she have money to do this? And is she paying her staff overtime because of her regularly bailing to solve crimes? Surely her place is making absolutely no money. All-in-all, this book had potential, but there was just so much going on, and so little actually explained, that it was hard to follow. The actual murder mystery was good, and I like how all of that went, but the personal life was too in depth and not explained enough at the same time.