The patronizing relationship between this teenager and Molly is so retrograde it’s marginally offensive and feels like it was lifted from a PG-rated version of Dangerous Minds. This book opens with the sight of a Latine teenager miming a sex act with two obscenely decorated gingerbread people in front of a group of children to get a rise out of Molly, which is completely successful and yet results in her forgiving him and letting him stay there among the toddlers and young children he was performing in front of. It seems that John and Molly end up making a good team. The mystery of the baby percolates and begins to crash into a series of thefts which have taken place at the library and local high school. John is conveniently recently divorced and now taking care of his daughter, Katie, a young environmentalist who hates being stuck on Little Bridge Island. Molly is immediately offended by John’s attempt at corralling the situation and tries to take charge, causing them to clash. Also distracting: the fact that someone’s abandoned a baby in the library’s ladies room.Įnter John Hartwell, Little Bridge Island’s sheriff, who takes up the investigation. The job is hectic and messy, but it helps distract her from her broken engagement. Molly Montgomery has moved all the way from Colorado to the Florida Keys to accept a job as the head of the Little Bridge Island Public Library’s childrens’ services. Meg Cabot’s Little Bridge Island series adds on another chapter with No Offense, a bland, sitcommy, corny, mindboggling and somewhat grating story about a librarian, a foundling and a single dad-slash-sheriff who manage to make a family.
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