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Pies And Potions (2012)

by Rose Pressey(Favorite Author)

4.02 of 5 Votes: 1

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

Amazon Digital Services

series

Mystic Cafe

review 1: I like this series much more than the author's "How to Date a.." series. The characters were a bit more fleshed out and less annoying, and the whole thing felt more...cohesive.There were still some writing/editing issues that stood out to me and kept yanking me out of being immersed in the story"Her callous words made my stomach turn. How could she be so cold and evil? My stomach turned."Repetitiveness from sentence to sentence drove me batty. At least use some other phrase to describe what you're describing, if you feel the need to repeat it.I also was sad that the character descriptions were basically copied and pasted from the first book. Her best friend who helps her run the cafe had no new introduction at all, just the few sentences about her crazy hat collection... more that we had read before. I understand the need to catch the reader up in case they missed the first book- but I felt like it was a cop-out not to do a few new sentences.Lines I liked:"That girl is one relationship disaster away from her fourth cat."HA!Still rooting for Ellie, till curious about Tom- I will read the next one, and continue to try to ignore the writing style
review 2: Cute, quick read. I love that Tom is back - he's a much more interesting character than Rory (who is basically just hot. He has no other characteristics that I could see). It was pretty obvious that something was up with Sydney, but the predictability didn't bother me much. And even though Elly waits too long to ask for help and can be a bit oblivious sometimes, I do like her. Again, she should totally ditch Rory for Tom. Just sayin. Things I didn't like. There were a lot of errors that the editor should have picked up on (and although this was self published, the author did thank her editor, so there was one). The chapter breaks came at really weird times that didn't make any sense. Elly does have, on occasion, too dumb to live syndrome (another favorite character of mine, Cassandra Palmer from a Karen Chance series, has this from time to time as well). It doesn't happen enough to turn me off from her character altogether, but she really should have learned a few things by this point, you know?Um, I know there was more (I should start taking notes when I read or something) but I finished this yesterday and I'm sick and sort of fuzzy on the details. Anyway, I've read at least the first book in the author's other series and this series is my favorite of hers by far. less

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