Would-Be Witch by Kimberly Frost

What a delight this novel was. It was great fun to read and I finished it in only a few days.

Tammy Jo is from a family of witches. Trouble is, she has no power. Or rather, she has power, but she cannot wield it. Or something like that. As the story opens, she's given up on magic and has become a pastry chef. And she's good at it.

Too bad her temper got in the way. A confrontation with a difficult customer left her out of a job. On the way home, Edie, her personal ghost who inhabits that locket you see on the cover, decided to pop in, startling Tammy Jo into a car accident. And once she finally makes it home, she discovers that the costume that she ordered for tonight's party — which was supposed to be Robin Hood — turned out to be "something of a pornographic peacock."

But the bad day gets worse when masked robbers invade the party and steal h... Read More

Barely Bewitched

I read and thoroughly enjoyed Kimberly Frost's Would-Be Witch, so when I saw that the sequel, Barely Bewitched, was out, I just had to read it. Unlike many second novels, Barely Bewitched is even better than the first novel.

Barely Bewitched begins a week after the events of Would-Be Witch. In a rare plot convenience (there are very few of these, so I will allow Kimberly Frost the luxury of one or two without dinging her star count), Tammy Jo Trask's mother and step-mother — who are both witches — are still away. Tammy Jo is planning to rob her nemesis, Jenna Reitgarten, of Tammy Jo's jewelry, which Tammy Jo had pawned in the last book, and which Jenna had purchased from the pawn shop and refused to sell back to... Read More