Shady Hollow | 
pickI picked this up and then promptly lost it in my TBR. A recent comment about this being a perfect cozy reminded me I already owned it and I should pick it up.
It was precisely the comfort read I needed.
Although the main characters are talking animals, it isn't a kid's story (although I just order a copy for a friend for reading aloud with her daughter). It reminds me of Looney Tunes--amusing for kids but even funnier for adults.
pickWhat‘s better than a town full of talking animals? A foxy cub reporter who solves mysteries— her best friend Lenore is a raven with a bookstore 🐦⬛
Desk fairy & friend pictured for fun #midwintersolace #fridaynightshare #naturalitsy @AllDebooks @Chrissyreadit @jenniferw88 @TheBookHippie
pick#Rushathon #DashingDecember #SeriesLove2023
I have had this first book in the Shady Hollow cozy mystery series in my #TBR for ages now so I am glad I finally read it. I found it cute & enjoyable once you accept that the characters are animals who live a human life in a little village with a newspaper & coffee shop. Cozy & good for this time of year or as a palate cleanser between heavier reads, I‘ll give the next in the series a try. 🦊 🐻 🐦⬛
Did my last “friend thing” before Christmas with brunch earlier today, so now I‘ll settle in for the next couple of days & relax & read & just hang out for the holidays.
Listened to 90-minutes-ish of my holiday audiobook while out-&-about today & grabbed a poke bowl for Christmas Eve-Eve liner/lupper. I‘m reading a few chapters of the tagged cozy as the beauty of a Kindle is the ability to read with one hand so the other can hold chopsticks!😉
#BookBinge
I haven‘t started the Shady Hollow cozy mystery series yet where the characters are woodland creatures & #NonHumanProtag (s) but it looks cute & the first couple of books are loaded on my Kindle. I am hoping to get to them this cozy fall season for my #SeriesLove2023 list. 🦊💚
so-soA good reminder that there's a limit to how cozy a book can be when it's a murder mystery. Charming cover and woodland menagerie aside, you're still steeped in gossip, prejudice, xenophobia, infidelity, blackmail, embezzlement, classism and negative depiction of the non-monogamous. The end makes some efforts to address the downsides of small-town life, and suggests there may be improvements, but I find myself less eager to continue in the series.
pickA very adorable cozy mystery set in a cute woodland village full of adorable creatures. Fun, light, cute. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
pickA sweet cosy mystery based in the neighbourhood of Shady Hollows. A good palate cleanser kind of book.
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pickThis was a really fun cozy mystery that gave me Hoodwinked vibes. The animals of Shady Hollow are all in a tizzy when Otto the toad turns up murdered. Vera Vixen, a plucky reporter, is determined to solve the mystery, as long as the killer doesn't get to her first.
Looking forward to returning to this small forest town #SeriesLove2023 @Andrew65 @TheSpineView
#Booked2023 set in a neighborhood @BarbaraTheBibliophage @Cinfhen @alisiakae
pickGeez, what a cutie patootie of a book?!! It‘s exactly the way I like my cozy mysteries to be: smart, sweet, and full of woodland creatures. It‘s not The House in the Cerulean Sea level (can another book ever reach that status? prob not), but it definitely gives off the same vibes. Loved it! 🦊🐰🐍🐻🐸🐭🦫🐑🦝🦝🤗🤩
I read nine books in November and there were quite a few good books: City of Brass, House of Salt and Sorrows, Right Sort of Man, and the tagged book among them. Even the romance I read was a great one (A Night Like This)! But Shady Hollow was good enough that I went right out and bought the next book in the series, and I‘d recommend it to almost everyone I know — the other great reads of the months were more niche-y.
I think I made it into #AuldLangSpine! Pic of Bunny yawning for attention. “Mom, you‘re too excited! Time for bed!”
I stayed up until 5am reading, so I could get a good head start on #Scarathlon! 3 super short novellas, and a perfect fall cozy mystery. Shady Hollow was so fun, and I can‘t wait to read the next one. I‘m an hour or so into Desolation Canyon, so I‘m off to continue with more of that!
4*15(#teamreads)+ 45 (matching 3 photo prompts) +4670 (word search words) = 4775
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pickThis is the most adorable cozy mystery. Set in a small town in the forest where animals have human qualities. A fox investigates the murder. Felt like Peter Rabbit with murder. Will continue reading the series.
pickThe Coziest of Cozy Mysteries
Rating: 4 Stars
Full Review & Content Breakdown: https://laurenmichelelifestyle.com/2022/07/04/shady-hollow-by-juneau-black-book-...
pickAbsolutely loving this book! 📚also the map on the frontispiece is lovely 😻 I have multiple theories already about whodunit but need more evidence to confirm 👵🏻🧶update: my suspicions were correct! Can‘t wait to reserve the next installment 🦊
I had to put Blacktop Wasteland to the side because this one is due back to the library first! Im excited to start this one!
pickA classic murder mystery with a quaint little woodland village populated entirely by animals. This was such a fun read! I enjoyed the little details and the humor. Definitely going to read the next book.
Next up on Libby: a murder mystery with animals. I've been eagerly waiting for this book to be available.
pickA cozy mystery with a sly twist. Imagine the quaintest small country village you can. Now, populate it with animals - a moose runs the cafe, a raven owns the bookstore, and the fox Vera Vixen is the ace reporter at the local paper. One day the town curmudgeon, an old toad, is found stabbed. A murderer is on the loose in Shady Hollow, and Vera Vixen is hot on the trail!
Lots of fun! Full review here: https://tinyurl.com/3bn5n9sp
so-so
I Had to try to like this, think it‘s aimed at the over ten year olds market, yet had adult references many would miss. It‘s inconsistent, even with a suggestion to consider the characters as adults with animal traits, they also ARE animals. Why is a fox scared of a sheep, how can a bird pick up a glass bottle, they all speak perfect English, and are all the same size. They have feathers, fur, and no opposable thumbs. The style very YA
