It’s Christmas in Banshee Creek and Kat Ramos and her witch friends face their greatest challenge yet—baking. It’s the First Banshee Creek Holiday Cookie Contest and the girls all want to win. But cooking can be tricky in the Most Haunted Town in America, particularly when a creepy urban legend is making the rounds…and there is a formidable new witch in town. Will Kat win the coveted first … prize, or will the new arrivals make her life hell…literally.
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I was happy to discover there was one more book in the Main Street Witches series allowing me to enjoy more time with Kat and Liam, Luanne and Sean, and Fiona and Gavin along with other regular Banshee Creek quirky folks. I soon discovered that this was not just wrapping up one series, but also the transition book introducing another so there was some hello-ing going on with my good-byes.
A Very Merry Witchmas is the four book in the Main Street Witches series. It is following up on characters from previous books so doesn’t make a good place to begin even if it does transparently introduce newcomer, Claire the necromancer who gets her own series beginning with Hex Marks the Spot
But, in this one, we have the usual town love for festivals and parties. Its the Christmas season so the paranormal group have picked the high school where a ghost of a prom girl wants to dance with all the boys as the place to host their televised cookie baking contest for all the local businesses. Things get off on an ominous foot when a person is found murdered and it seems a once harmless ghost may be the culprit.
Kat is busy burning cookies in her practice run throughs, feeling dread that something bad is happening while suspecting the new TV Celebrity witch in town of more than being too intent on her craft. Luanne is seeing a bad omen in the cards and Liam even starts to be affected by the atmosphere.
It was chaotic and fun as usual, but has grown progressively darker as the witches and paranormies all sense something big is going down soon. I had a good time seeing how Kat and Liam are doing after their unique romance and adventure with their cursed house, but it was meeting the colorful and unique Claire who will be getting her own series that had me most intrigued- okay maybe it was also Claire’s Chihuahua hellhound, Pookie, too.
All in all, it was a fun Banshee Creek-style Christmas and wrap-up for a series and I don’t have to be sad because there is more to come from a world I have come to love. Those who enjoy paranormal cozies should give this series (and the one before it) a try.
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Another must-read episode in the extraordinary town of Banshee Creek. Even if this is your first visit, you won’t get lost or feel friendless, just ask my friends who have gotten hooked on this series! The publisher’s blurb gives clues but can’t begin to prepare you for all the suspense and fun. Just dive right in and enjoy!
Magic, cookies, and Christmas!
What could go wrong? In Banshee Creek, lots of things! Love these characters and their friendships. Love, laughter, and some creepiness kept this one going strong.
I love Main Street Witches Series. I’ve read three of four and they are edged more into the paranormal, but please read Banshee Creek Series first. I enjoy how all the characters intertwine from book to book, series to series.
*****SPOILER ALERT*****
Now we get a book without an additional romantic interest, but a whole new look to the creepiness that has been hinted at in the other books. Claire and her hellhound Chihuahua…love it. Is it just me or is there a hint of a romantic interest between the Ghost Cole and Claire? Maybe I’m reading too much into the story.
I so love Banshee Creek where different is celebrated and nothing is too strange. This trip we get to enjoy a high school prom dress-up cooking contest with a side of dead body. We’re introduced to new characters and one even teams up with our defenders.
I love supernatural books and this one was very super!!! Kat can’t bake but is entering the cookie baking contest. This one was funny, scary, but also sweet. Enjoyed catching up with past characters and meeting new ones. Looking forward to book 5.