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Why Do I Keep Reading These?

January 23, 2017 by Emperor Cupcake 2 Comments

Despite my lukewarm feelings about the first book, I read the next two volumes in Juliet Blackwell’s Witchcraft Mystery series, A Cast-Off Coven and Hexes and Hemlines. I know that people hate-watch TV shows, but do they hate-read? It takes a fair amount of time and energy to read a full-length novel (even if you sort of skim parts of it), so why do I keep coming back these books when they aren’t particularly good? Is it because I realized that Lily Ivory (why not […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Mystery Tagged With: A Cast-Off Coven, Hexes and Hemlines, Juliet Blackwell, Lily Ivory, Oh My How Exotic, So White It Glows in the Dark

Emperor Cupcake's CBR9 Review No:9 · Genres: Fantasy, Mystery · Tags: A Cast-Off Coven, Hexes and Hemlines, Juliet Blackwell, Lily Ivory, Oh My How Exotic, So White It Glows in the Dark ·
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