Review: A Breeze to Read
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 02 1, 2014
Bay Winchester lives in a small town in Lower Michigan.  Besides being the local, editor, reporter and photographer of her town’s only newspaper, she’s a witch.  All the women in her family are witches.  Her gift is that she can see and talk to ghosts.  This gift becomes useful when the murder of a teenage boy takes place opening day of one of the town’s corn mazes.Overall, I liked this book and the rest of the series.  The characters are likable, and the plot lines are good.  However, there are a couple of little things that drove me a little crazy.  The first is the info dump that takes place during the first chapter.  A lot of what was being said was shown later in the story, so it was unnecessary to put it out there so many times.  The second thing is the math.  It becomes a bit more noticeable in the second and third novels.  What I mean about the math is how it relates to certain details.  For example, during the third book it is mentioned that Bay is in her mid-twenties.  Even if Bay graduated college in three years, that would leave her exiting school at twenty one.  Add a couple of years working as a reporter in Detroit, and about five years working at the local paper, that would put her at least in her late twenties.  Although given her obsession with the Goonies (a 1985 movie) and the time she was scared to go in the water due to Jaws (a 1975 movie), I mentally put her and her cousins in their early thirties.