Frosted Croakies
(Enchanting Inquiries Book 5)
by
Kindle Edition, 113 pages
Published December 3rd 2019 by Electric Prose Publications
Goodreads synopsis:
’Tis the season for great folly…walawalawalawalala…ribbit.
It’s Christmas time at Croakies. The tree is up. The stockings are hung. And Christmas tunes are turning the atmosphere jolly. After a tumultuous Samhain, I’ve found my chi again and I’m starting to enjoy the season of love and giving.
Yeah. You probably know how this is going to end.
When Sebille suggests I open the bookstore up to a small holiday party, I foolishly agree. How was I supposed to know that the hobgoblin would decide it would be fun to hide everybody’s stuff? Or that we’d be hit with a freak winter storm that confined everybody inside for the duration. Or that a “You’re me but who am I?” spell would be released inside the shop, switching everybody’s identities and creating general chaos and hysteria?
I could probably deal with all that if it weren’t for the fact that my friend, Lea…the one person who could possibly reverse the spell…was ensconced in SB the parrot, with no opposable thumbs for spelling.
And me? Of course, I’m sitting fat and squishy inside Mr. Slimy. Thank goodness Rustin isn’t currently in residence, or it would be really crowded in here.
Who spelled my party? What do a pair of Santa’s elves have to do with it? And why have old enemies suddenly become new friends? I apparently have a little holiday mystery to solve inside Croakies, and I have no idea how I’m going to solve it with everybody mixed up and some of us human.
Have I told you I hate this season?
Ribbit!
It’s Christmas time at Croakies. The tree is up. The stockings are hung. And Christmas tunes are turning the atmosphere jolly. After a tumultuous Samhain, I’ve found my chi again and I’m starting to enjoy the season of love and giving.
Yeah. You probably know how this is going to end.
When Sebille suggests I open the bookstore up to a small holiday party, I foolishly agree. How was I supposed to know that the hobgoblin would decide it would be fun to hide everybody’s stuff? Or that we’d be hit with a freak winter storm that confined everybody inside for the duration. Or that a “You’re me but who am I?” spell would be released inside the shop, switching everybody’s identities and creating general chaos and hysteria?
I could probably deal with all that if it weren’t for the fact that my friend, Lea…the one person who could possibly reverse the spell…was ensconced in SB the parrot, with no opposable thumbs for spelling.
And me? Of course, I’m sitting fat and squishy inside Mr. Slimy. Thank goodness Rustin isn’t currently in residence, or it would be really crowded in here.
Who spelled my party? What do a pair of Santa’s elves have to do with it? And why have old enemies suddenly become new friends? I apparently have a little holiday mystery to solve inside Croakies, and I have no idea how I’m going to solve it with everybody mixed up and some of us human.
Have I told you I hate this season?
Ribbit!
4 Stars This is the fifth installment of the Enchanted Inquiries series by Sam Cheever. This is just a bunch of body swapping Christmas fun. This makes you want to take a second look at the cookies put out for a yuletide celebration. You never know what might happen to you. Nadia is the magical keeper of oddities. So, when Sebille asks her to host the holiday party at the bookstore… how can she say no? Seems like that would be the last place you would host a party since there are so many magical objects just hanging around, but what do I know? When a couple of humans dressed as elves take refuge from the cold at the bookstore… things start to go a little wonky. Somehow everyone ends up as someone else. And Nadia is suddenly in a frog’s body. It gives the manager of Croakies a whole new outlook on life. I thought the magical parts of this were great. There were a few times I got lost since everyone was someone else but that is to be expected, I think. As the mystery unfolds, you are sitting at the edge of your seat wondering what is going to happen next and fret with Nadia whether she will ever be a human again! If you love a good cozy\ mystery, definitely check this one out. You won’t be disappointed! I received this as an ARC (Advanced Reader Copy) from the author via Booksprout in exchange for an honest review. |
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