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Pies and Prejudice (A Charmed Pie Shoppe Mystery, #1)
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Where: Havenwood, Georgia
Who: Ella Mae
Georgia here I come! It was going to be fabulous….was finally going to meet Ella Mae, try all the pies in her new pie shoppe (gimme, gimme, gimme), and spend some time with her Aunts. Ella Mae had recently returned home to Havenwood after she separated from her cheating husband. She and her aunts have always been close, but Ella Mae and her mother have been estranged since she married and took off for New York. They are working on mending fences with the help of her aunts and the opening of her pie shoppe. For Ella Mae...when the going gets tough the tough gets to baking. A store front in the small town of Havenwood has become available and it is perfect for this new adventure...everyone thinks so. Well that is not exactly true Ella Mae’s high school nemesis Loralyn doesn’t. She wants to open a second hair salon in that same location, and resorts to threatening Ella Mae to get it. Ella Mae’s response...she charges full speed ahead with the help of her aunts to get the shoppe and start renovations to design her perfect space. This isn’t any ordinary shoppe and Ella Mae isn’t any ordinary baker she doesn’t quite understand, but her pies have magical effects on people. One thing she does understand is that her customers LOVE her new treats! When Loralyn’s fiancée turns up dead...the murder weapon the rolling pin from Charmed Pie Shoppe...her and I turn our focus to finding out what really happened….
My thoughts:
The narrator for this book was ok. Neither good nor bad...which if you have been reading my reviews...this seems par for the course.
This is the first in a series. I would say this book is 3.5 stars. I loved this debut!! The small southern town, the pie shoppe, and the secondary characters were fabulous!! I loved her aunts, mom, her dog chewy, and even loved to hate Loralyn! The mystery was really interesting...the horse racing world seems fascinating! I was 100% invested. I would say up until the very end this book was easily a 4 or even 4.5. I liked the little enchantments and how the pies influenced her customers. I liked that it wasn’t Ella Mae waving a wand, but instead her emotions baked into the pies. It just got a little too bizarre for me when she was trying to learn about her magic, and that of her mothers and aunts. Now I realize this is a magical series, so maybe it's me. I will for sure be reading the second in the series. I’m also going to try my hand at baking one of Ella Mae’s delicious recipes...who knows maybe I'll be able to bake a little magic in it!
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Where: Havenwood, Georgia
Who: Ella Mae
Georgia here I come! It was going to be fabulous….was finally going to meet Ella Mae, try all the pies in her new pie shoppe (gimme, gimme, gimme), and spend some time with her Aunts. Ella Mae had recently returned home to Havenwood after she separated from her cheating husband. She and her aunts have always been close, but Ella Mae and her mother have been estranged since she married and took off for New York. They are working on mending fences with the help of her aunts and the opening of her pie shoppe. For Ella Mae...when the going gets tough the tough gets to baking. A store front in the small town of Havenwood has become available and it is perfect for this new adventure...everyone thinks so. Well that is not exactly true Ella Mae’s high school nemesis Loralyn doesn’t. She wants to open a second hair salon in that same location, and resorts to threatening Ella Mae to get it. Ella Mae’s response...she charges full speed ahead with the help of her aunts to get the shoppe and start renovations to design her perfect space. This isn’t any ordinary shoppe and Ella Mae isn’t any ordinary baker she doesn’t quite understand, but her pies have magical effects on people. One thing she does understand is that her customers LOVE her new treats! When Loralyn’s fiancée turns up dead...the murder weapon the rolling pin from Charmed Pie Shoppe...her and I turn our focus to finding out what really happened….
My thoughts:
The narrator for this book was ok. Neither good nor bad...which if you have been reading my reviews...this seems par for the course.
This is the first in a series. I would say this book is 3.5 stars. I loved this debut!! The small southern town, the pie shoppe, and the secondary characters were fabulous!! I loved her aunts, mom, her dog chewy, and even loved to hate Loralyn! The mystery was really interesting...the horse racing world seems fascinating! I was 100% invested. I would say up until the very end this book was easily a 4 or even 4.5. I liked the little enchantments and how the pies influenced her customers. I liked that it wasn’t Ella Mae waving a wand, but instead her emotions baked into the pies. It just got a little too bizarre for me when she was trying to learn about her magic, and that of her mothers and aunts. Now I realize this is a magical series, so maybe it's me. I will for sure be reading the second in the series. I’m also going to try my hand at baking one of Ella Mae’s delicious recipes...who knows maybe I'll be able to bake a little magic in it!
For more book fun subscribe to my blog @ http://beachbumbookworm.com/.
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January 12, 2020
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