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A review by roadtripreader
Baker's Coven by Nancy Warren
3.0
Book 2 in the series is as lopsided as that crooked sponge Pierre made in Season 1 of the Great Canadian Bake Baking Show I mean that showstopper was a cake, it was baked, it was crooked but it just wasn't wow. And Julian the Builder-Baker was hella likeable. This is much the same case with this book. The characters of note are "almost" in every way. Almost intriguing, almost curious, Almost fantastic. Now, the book is not great and it's not good. It's that inbetween- satisfactory and nice.
So I've realized that I'm not a fan of modern day poesic witches and their spells that sound like bad poetry. It's giving " The power of three will set you free" Charmed Halliwell Sister vibes (no shade to the original series). I rolled my eyes when Elspeth Peach was reciting her cutsie protection spell.
Listen to this and tell me you don't want to cackle:
Earth, Fire, Water, all three
Elements Astral, I summon Thee
By the moon's light
On this special night
I call to thee to givr us your might
By the power of three
I conjure thee
To protect our sweet Poppy
And all that surrounds she
So I will, So mote it be
So I will, so mote it be
C'mon this is the stuff the little dweebs and dwebettes would practice as kids pretending to be witches. At least Wingardium Leviosa sounds like an exotic spell.
Now I prefer witches like you know THE WITCH staring Ana Taylor Joy. No poetry, no ryhming just the right amount of devil-speech or heck any of the old "Witch languages" in Europe and equally petrifying.
And yet; I still want it to be cozy. Is that too much to ask?
For now, this earns a 3.5 at best. I did like it, just didn't love it.
So I've realized that I'm not a fan of modern day poesic witches and their spells that sound like bad poetry. It's giving " The power of three will set you free" Charmed Halliwell Sister vibes (no shade to the original series). I rolled my eyes when Elspeth Peach was reciting her cutsie protection spell.
Listen to this and tell me you don't want to cackle:
Earth, Fire, Water, all three
Elements Astral, I summon Thee
By the moon's light
On this special night
I call to thee to givr us your might
By the power of three
I conjure thee
To protect our sweet Poppy
And all that surrounds she
So I will, So mote it be
So I will, so mote it be
C'mon this is the stuff the little dweebs and dwebettes would practice as kids pretending to be witches. At least Wingardium Leviosa sounds like an exotic spell.
Now I prefer witches like you know THE WITCH staring Ana Taylor Joy. No poetry, no ryhming just the right amount of devil-speech or heck any of the old "Witch languages" in Europe and equally petrifying.
And yet; I still want it to be cozy. Is that too much to ask?
For now, this earns a 3.5 at best. I did like it, just didn't love it.