Author: Bailey Cates
Published: July 28th 2020 by Berkley Books
Format: Paperback, 320 pages
Genre: Paranormal Amateur Sleuth
Series: Magical Bakery Mystery #9
First Sentence: “Anytime the afternoon of the sixteenth will work,” I said into my cellphone.
Blurb: Katie will be marrying firefighter Declan McCarthy in less than a week, and she's still finding time to run the Honeybee Bakery, where she infuses sweets and treats with special spells and cheerful charms. But her hope of getting hitched without a hitch is short-lived. When Declan's family shows up early to enjoy a few extra days in Savannah, his youngest sister finds an unsavory surprise: her ex-husband, dead in a hotel room hours after they argued.
The ex was scam artist with a lot of enemies, but the argument puts Declan's sister under suspicion. Between dress fittings and dough-kneading, Katie--along with her witchy friends in the spellbook club--will really have to work some magic to figure out who killed the con man...or there may not be a wedding.
My Opinion: I must not have been in the right frame of mind to read this book since I found every character, and their situations, to be predictable, annoying, and bordering on whiney. Somehow tracking down the murderer of a con man while preparing for a wedding seemed absurd. Let it go, Katie, let it go.
I continue to wish this series was more hedge witchery than amateur sleuth, but since it isn’t, I am glad that Colin made a slight reappearance since he is turning into my favorite character.
Will I continue--of course. I have one more book to get caught up on, and I have a habit of finishing what I start.
Blurb: Katie will be marrying firefighter Declan McCarthy in less than a week, and she's still finding time to run the Honeybee Bakery, where she infuses sweets and treats with special spells and cheerful charms. But her hope of getting hitched without a hitch is short-lived. When Declan's family shows up early to enjoy a few extra days in Savannah, his youngest sister finds an unsavory surprise: her ex-husband, dead in a hotel room hours after they argued.
The ex was scam artist with a lot of enemies, but the argument puts Declan's sister under suspicion. Between dress fittings and dough-kneading, Katie--along with her witchy friends in the spellbook club--will really have to work some magic to figure out who killed the con man...or there may not be a wedding.
My Opinion: I must not have been in the right frame of mind to read this book since I found every character, and their situations, to be predictable, annoying, and bordering on whiney. Somehow tracking down the murderer of a con man while preparing for a wedding seemed absurd. Let it go, Katie, let it go.
I continue to wish this series was more hedge witchery than amateur sleuth, but since it isn’t, I am glad that Colin made a slight reappearance since he is turning into my favorite character.
Will I continue--of course. I have one more book to get caught up on, and I have a habit of finishing what I start.
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