Review: Boring plot, flat characters, no romance
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 05 7, 2013
The main heroine grandmother's Imelda wants to retire and play golf in Florida. She calls her grand-daughter, Elly, explains that she leaves her café in her hands, and that, as a natural witch, Elly is responsible to cast adequate spells to protect  the town. Said spells are cast from a cooking/spell book using magical spices. It takes Imelda all of five minutes to explains how it all works, just one on-the-job experience and poof, on and forward Grandma goes to sunny Florida.Elly whines about the lack of mentoring but, as she apparently resigned form her last job, she tries her best and, predictably, fails miserably.The wrong cheeeseburger is given to Rory, the love interest, and soon, evey female in town is wanting to strip him bare.  Tom (secondary love interest, a magical inspector, is called by the magic organisation, to have Elly clean up her mess within the next 48 hours or she looses the café.This could have been a nice plot but it fails on most levels. The magic seems like a after-thought. We never learn how she does it, (nor Tom's magic) or the relevance of the magic organisation (how it works, how it's set etc.).The romance was lame. Apart from physical looks, I could not tell what attracted Elly to Rory and vice-versa. All I know of Rudy is his taste in food, his job, his abs and cute butt. Pretty thin.In contrario, all I know of Elly annoys me. She whines. She's superficial. She does not defend her position even when she's right. She lacks maturity (re : nasty comments about bad employers or jobs)  and makes really stupid life choices.This book has to be geared towards teenagers or empty-headed females. Keep your money and try Linda Wisdom witches series instead.