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This started of strong but then became incredibly convoluted. In one way it was a train wreck I couldn‘t look away from… but there‘s also some format issues, walls of italics for a POV… the book is already multiPOV & timelines it was unneeded. I‘m not convinced the timeline makes sense, but either way it was taking me out of the story. At 1 point the main character says something that was meant for another character… a mess.

Short Review:

This was quite a good cosy mystery with a well-worked out plot. I found it difficult to warm to Midge as a main character at first, but then I pictured her as being played by a middle-aged Miriam Margolyes & that helped. I do think that she was a little bit too timid though, & her characterisation focused too much on her weight at times. I'd definitely read another 'Midge Mystery' though. 4🌟

Leslie shares her red hair, green eyes, & birthday with her beloved grandmother, but at their joint party when Leslie turns 13, one of her grandmother's friends predicts that both Leslie & her cousin Trish will experience 'grave trouble' before they turn 16.

Now, 3 years later, Leslie can't wait for her Sweet Sixteen party, but strange things start to happen. Her fancy invitations go missing, her party dress arrives slashed to ribbons (continued)

Book 2 in this series was great! I liked Cora & Iggy & the sisters getting deeper into their magic. +Cora‘s a reader so you get a lot of bookish jokes which I am always a fan of.

Bramwell Finch has just lost his old business partner & friend, & now looks set to miss out on his last hope for a coveted film award. Everything he sacrificed for success has come to nothing & now he has nothing & no-one. On Christmas Eve, Finch receives an invitation to a private screening at his studio, at a screening room he knows does not exist. Yet there it is - Room 6, & Finch sits down to watch his misdeeds played out onscreen.

Lucy gets help from her fellow witches and vampire knitting friends to solve a murder that occurs at a summer fair. This series is so much fun!

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This review is for Such Dangerous Seas, a novella bundled with Be the Serpent that tells the backstory of the sea-witch Luidaeg. Recommended for fans of the October Daye series.

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This was a pleasant surprise. It‘s sweet & makes some good points about the victims of society‘s True Crime obsession. There‘s a lot of social media speak, which may turn some people away but the way the FMC spoke was likely spot on to someone whose connection with the world is a therapist, social media & literally 2 people (until she meets her hot new neighbor & starts to take her life back)

Lylah & her friends Chace, Sonny, Isaac, Charlotte, & Sienna all share student accommodation at uni. Lylah has a major crush on Chace but doesn't know if he feels the same way. One evening on their way out to party, the doorbell rings - no-one is there but an anonymous note waiting on the doormat. The note is addressed to Sonny & is made up of cut-out & pasted letters like a ransom note & reads: (continued)

The action was good, it kept my attention. But it tried too hard to be gritty, & the romance was SO FORCED.