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cheesygiraffe's review
3.0
Another cute paranormal romance. They way this ended there better be a 3rd book!
snowblu3's review
5.0
Another delightful bit of knitting fluff. I recommend this to knitters and only to knitters. If you don't knit, you're not going to find my favorite quotes relevant to anything.
"Suddenly I had everything I had ever dreamed about: magick and love and enough yarn to last ten lifetimes."
"Believe me, you know you love a guy if you're willing to knit a pair of socks for his size-twelve feet." My husband wears 12.5 EEEE. I am not effing around. This is love, people.
"Hadn't a lovely selkie couple from the Orkney Islands passed through town last month? Or maybe she was a wayward knitter who had been attracted by the lights and the promise of some lace-weight mohair." I'm a moth.
"I'd knitted my boyfriend a sweater and we'd lived to love another day. If that wasn't magick, I didn't know what was." Knitting your SO a sweater is like getting their name tattooed on you. You better be damn sure about that relationship.
"Not that anyone ever actually applauded when I showed them how to turn a heel or pick up the gusset stitches, but I wouldn't have been at all surprised if one day they did. Sock knitting is that great." Seriously though.
Last bit of knitting magick: "Your yarn never tangles, your sleeves always turn out the same length, and you always get gauge."
Bonus quote: 'Or maybe she had some weird kind of knitting superpowers, paranormal crafting skills straight out of a Harry Potter -- She stopped, needle poised above the piece of knitted fabric she was using to demonstrate her technique. "Actually I've never read Harry Potter." You could hear my breath leave my body in one loud whoosh. "What did you say?"' Ha ha ha. I took this out of context. But that's basically my reaction every time too.
"Suddenly I had everything I had ever dreamed about: magick and love and enough yarn to last ten lifetimes."
"Believe me, you know you love a guy if you're willing to knit a pair of socks for his size-twelve feet." My husband wears 12.5 EEEE. I am not effing around. This is love, people.
"Hadn't a lovely selkie couple from the Orkney Islands passed through town last month? Or maybe she was a wayward knitter who had been attracted by the lights and the promise of some lace-weight mohair." I'm a moth.
"I'd knitted my boyfriend a sweater and we'd lived to love another day. If that wasn't magick, I didn't know what was." Knitting your SO a sweater is like getting their name tattooed on you. You better be damn sure about that relationship.
"Not that anyone ever actually applauded when I showed them how to turn a heel or pick up the gusset stitches, but I wouldn't have been at all surprised if one day they did. Sock knitting is that great." Seriously though.
Last bit of knitting magick: "Your yarn never tangles, your sleeves always turn out the same length, and you always get gauge."
Bonus quote: 'Or maybe she had some weird kind of knitting superpowers, paranormal crafting skills straight out of a Harry Potter -- She stopped, needle poised above the piece of knitted fabric she was using to demonstrate her technique. "Actually I've never read Harry Potter." You could hear my breath leave my body in one loud whoosh. "What did you say?"' Ha ha ha. I took this out of context. But that's basically my reaction every time too.
jazzrizz's review
4.0
This one wasn't quite as good as the first in this series, but the ending was pretty cool . . . with a great cliff hanger. I can hardly wait to find out what happens in the next book.
rebeccasreadingrambles's review
4.0
Another great book in this series. Again, really a "mystery" here, other than solving problems and learning more about the towns history / Isadora's plan. This one was full of emotion and dark powers and romance. Poor Chloe has so much on her plate I can't imagine dealing with it all. There are some very big choices to be made in this book, about love, about fate, about choosing a town over a child, etc. It was really well done and easy to read. The characters are interesting and I'm looking forward to see more and maybe even learning more about them. I thought there was so way in heck this all works out and I can't wait to read more of this series.
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I loved the ending. Even though Karen died, she was reunited with her child and that's all that mattered to her. And Chloe and Luke are going to hopefully stay together in Sugar Maple. Yay! Except.....Sugar Maple is gone. What a great cliffhanger!tiredcat's review
4.0
I really enjoyed this book. It was a quick read but had some great characters. Since it ended with such a cliff-hanger, I can't wait to start the next one!
poorashleu's review
4.0
Originally posted at Nose in a Book
We meet Chloe once again. Chloe still lives in Sugar Maple, Vermont, with her boyfriend Luke, whose contract is up soon which leads Chloe to wonder if he is going to stay or if he is going to move back to the big city. Another problem, magic is running amok in town. If that isn’t bad enough, Luke’s ex-wife comes into town with some secrets of her own. And these secrets are a doozey.
This book is an excellent second book in the series. It does not hit the sophomore slump that many books fall to. I could not put this book down, nor did I want to. Luke’s ex-wife starts off annoying enough and then you kind of start to fall in love with her (in her own way.) The town acts as crazy as ever, but it’s the perfection continuation of book one, mentioned here. There is another mystery which Chloe helps to solve once again, in part to the fact it involves Luke and his ex-wife. Chloe doesn’t want to help in part because it kills her (Luke kept a secret) but she does, and thank heavens she does because it involves a bad guy from the first book.
The thing is, as much as I mention the first book, you could easily read this book without reading the first book. It recaps it in a way you don’t even feel like you’re getting a recap, which is always lovely. Plus this book ends on a wicked cliffhanger, rivals those of the YA variety.
We meet Chloe once again. Chloe still lives in Sugar Maple, Vermont, with her boyfriend Luke, whose contract is up soon which leads Chloe to wonder if he is going to stay or if he is going to move back to the big city. Another problem, magic is running amok in town. If that isn’t bad enough, Luke’s ex-wife comes into town with some secrets of her own. And these secrets are a doozey.
This book is an excellent second book in the series. It does not hit the sophomore slump that many books fall to. I could not put this book down, nor did I want to. Luke’s ex-wife starts off annoying enough and then you kind of start to fall in love with her (in her own way.) The town acts as crazy as ever, but it’s the perfection continuation of book one, mentioned here. There is another mystery which Chloe helps to solve once again, in part to the fact it involves Luke and his ex-wife. Chloe doesn’t want to help in part because it kills her (Luke kept a secret) but she does, and thank heavens she does because it involves a bad guy from the first book.
The thing is, as much as I mention the first book, you could easily read this book without reading the first book. It recaps it in a way you don’t even feel like you’re getting a recap, which is always lovely. Plus this book ends on a wicked cliffhanger, rivals those of the YA variety.
iffer's review against another edition
3.0
Warning: This volume ends on a cliffhanger!
These books are surprisingly well-written. I enjoyed how this book was fluffy and fun, yet at the same dealt with some serious issues. Many romance stories end after the chase and the couple getting together. This book gives us a glimpse into what happens that isn't magically happily-ever-after. Barbara Bretton does a good job dealing with the dynamics of Chloe meeting Luke's ex. They don't love each other at first sight, even if they're both knitters, but they get along. The initial animosity and the dash of jealousy that both women feel makes the interactions ring true.
One thing that annoyed me about this book, which appeared a little bit in the first book in the series but was more pronounced in this second volume, were the several statements of the sentiment, "Men...!" Fill in the ellipses with saying like, "The more words you throw at the them, the less they hear," and " They just feel the need to protect women." ::eye roll:: It bugs me when women are written this poorly in sci-fi books oriented towards women, and it equally bugs me when men are written this cardboard-ey, even in women's romance novels. It just made me think, "Wow, this really is oriented towards stereotypical knitters, i.e. middle-aged white women."
The other thing that niggled, just a little bit, was the how it seemed obvious that Bretton was drawing a line between supernatural races and human. It became irritating. I mean, I know that the X-Men and Inhumans evoke similar issues concerning fear of persecution, but, for whatever reason, in this book, it read more like an excuse for cozy New England romance women to feel persecuted.
These books are surprisingly well-written. I enjoyed how this book was fluffy and fun, yet at the same dealt with some serious issues. Many romance stories end after the chase and the couple getting together. This book gives us a glimpse into what happens that isn't magically happily-ever-after. Barbara Bretton does a good job dealing with the dynamics of Chloe meeting Luke's ex. They don't love each other at first sight, even if they're both knitters, but they get along. The initial animosity and the dash of jealousy that both women feel makes the interactions ring true.
One thing that annoyed me about this book, which appeared a little bit in the first book in the series but was more pronounced in this second volume, were the several statements of the sentiment, "Men...!" Fill in the ellipses with saying like, "The more words you throw at the them, the less they hear," and " They just feel the need to protect women." ::eye roll:: It bugs me when women are written this poorly in sci-fi books oriented towards women, and it equally bugs me when men are written this cardboard-ey, even in women's romance novels. It just made me think, "Wow, this really is oriented towards stereotypical knitters, i.e. middle-aged white women."
The other thing that niggled, just a little bit, was the how it seemed obvious that Bretton was drawing a line between supernatural races and human. It became irritating. I mean, I know that the X-Men and Inhumans evoke similar issues concerning fear of persecution, but, for whatever reason, in this book, it read more like an excuse for cozy New England romance women to feel persecuted.