![]() ![]() Overall, it's a light read, and maybe (as the author puts in disclaimers) the style of the writing is not for me. Of the characters, Edith, the ghost, I think is my favorite. I'm sure that's not the intent, but that's how I'm reading it-again, text is not a visual medium, so some clues one would pick up on are just not there. Maybe because it's in text and not in a visual medium where you can pick up body language clues, but all of the barbs for each other seem meant, not kidding around, but honest-to-gosh meant in a malicious way. It's hard to read a series where you don't like the main characters, and they are downright mean to each other. (Or perhaps I'm used to it now?) There was also more magic this time around, though still pretty. ![]() They are also still very argumentative, although that has been lessened from the first book. The women still all sound the same to me individual character voices are impossible to pick out. Overall, it's a smoother read, which shows the author gaining experience, yay for experience! The pop culture references which vexed me so have been cut down dramatically from the first book, and are used in more appropriate places, so no problems there. Those people from small towns will appreciate that. There are still problems with the editing though-tense changes with verbs, sometimes some confusing sentence and paragraph structure, but those are fewer than in the first book.Īgain, the author captures the small town feel pretty well which I think is a good thing. The bickering between the family members is down, and the writing is smoother. This is the second in the series, and as I have read the first two back to back, I can honestly say the second is an improvement over the first. Well, "wicked" is not the word I would use to describe the witches in this series. If it is, Bay may find herself in trouble – again – and this is the kind of trouble that she may not be able to find a way out of – even with Aunt Tillie’s help. When the murder investigation takes a turn, though, a long-held Hemlock Cove secret is bound to be exposed. When you couple that with her cousin Thistle’s obsession with making their Great-Aunt Tillie pay for the curse she recently put on them (you don’t want to know) and her cousin Clove’s conviction that she is not – no matter what the rest of the family says – a blabbermouth, Bay has her hands full. Bay’s investigation is stymied by her new boss, Brian Kelly, and her old flirtation, FBI agent Landon Michaels, both of whom seem to have more than interviews on their mind. The body belongs to the town drunk – and no one can figure out who would want to kill him, or why. Instead, when another dead body is discovered in Hemlock Cove, things turn into murder, mayhem and migraines (the latter is mostly thanks to her family, of course). Bay Winchester, editor of Hemlock Cove’s small weekly newspaper, thinks her small hamlet’s upcoming murder mystery weekend is going to be all about fun, food and frolicking. Where there’s a witch, there’s a way! Where there’s a whole family of them, there’s trouble.
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