Review: A Lite, Humorous Cozy Mystery!
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 01 27, 2014
I haven't read this Series since 9/6/13 but this book made it easy to visually stroll back into Hemlock, Cove and recall the characters.  Bay is an engaging character and I like Thistle and Cove well enough but I sometime find their mothers interference in their personal lives more irritating than funny.  The scenes involving these mothers simply walking into these 3 women's home and scolding them for have overnight male guests just wasn't funny to me and frankly I think the series could do without it.  Moreover, I like Aunt Tillie but sometime even she is a bit over the top.  The aforementioned is party why this book didn't get a higher rating.  The other reason is that the characters just aren't flushed out enough.  Their interactions and dialogue still feels superficial.  I still don't know anything really personal about the three mothers other than they are witches, sisters, divorced, mothers, constantly bicker, constantly competing and live for interfering in their daughters' personal and sex lives.Nevertheless, the mystery is interesting, I like the chemistry between Bay and Landon and love the witchcraft element so Overall this was a pretty good read.  Therefore, I will continue to read the series and look forward to the next book.  The ending(a bit of a cliff hanger) wasn't a complete surprise but it definitely made me look forward to reading the next book and to finding out what happens next.  I bet Aunt Tillie is going to be on the war path in the next book. lolThus, if your looking for a rather simple and lite cozy mystery, with comedy, a very tiny bit of romance involving witches and don't mind a lack of indepth characterization and/or character development than you should enjoy this book as well as the Series.