A review by jassmine
The Worst Witch Saves the Day by Jill Murphy

4.0

The best thing to have done would have been for Mildred to change herself back once she was safely out of

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Miss Granite's

bedroom, but she found it difficult to focus her ant brain on the intricacies of the reversal spell, especially as she had stumbled across a large cake crumb just outside the door and immediately felt an overwhelming desire to start dragging it back underneath the door towards the airing cupboard.

After being severely displeased with the previous installment, I'm happy to announce that I enjoyed this one! Mildred, Maud and Enid are in Third Form now and have new teacher Miss Granite and from the beginning you can see that there is something fishy about her, which makes for a nice mystery element! (I was kind of reminded of the Alastor Moody plotline from HP and the Goblet of Fire, but... things are a bit different.) There is also a plotline that really reminded me of [b:Anne of Green Gables|1263152|Anne of Green Gables|L.M. Montgomery|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1348247270l/1263152._SY75_.jpg|3464264] which I obviously loved. Ethel Hallow is still described in a way that's completely ridiculous, but Miss Hardbroom seems to gain some humanity in this one and I'm so glad for it, because... as you know if you read my previous reviews, I... might be a little too invested into Miss Hardbroom?

Also! Also, in this installment Miss Hardbroom goes to play evening chess with Miss Pentangle and returns at two in the morning! As you can tell I have my own theories about this meeting...

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pining lesbians...

Clearly, I had a good time with this, looking toward the next book! I'm now getting to the completely unknown territory, because I didn't read the last three books in the series before.