‘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 … 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?
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Nadia agrees to host a Christmas party at Croakies. And of course, everything goes wrong. Everyone seems to be enjoying themselves until suddenly they all seem drunk. What caused the problem, did someone spike the punch or was it the cookies. While trying to solve this problem, suddenly everyone has swapped bodies. This is my favorite of this series.
I love Frosted Croakies. This book is fun and interesting. Full of adventure and magic. The book is impossible to put down. It is hilarious and entertaining. The characters are fantastic! Christmas at Croakies is quite an adventure. I fall in love with this series more with each book.
Fun, really fun mixed up read. Best holiday story, I read in a while.
Imagine someone else in your body and you are in a totally different body. Add non magical people, and magical items in a ‘library’ for safekeeping. Add in ‘elves’. Now you have the making for Nadia’s Yule party at the bookstore. Who would you put in whose body? Guess before you read for some fun.
I wished I had kept a scorecard of who was who. I had to flip back and forth to remember who was who. The author does provide a trick for remembering but it took me a minute to get it ( having a slow day, lol).
I still want to know more about Hob’s gift. Mr. Slimy, I have a theory about his talking ability, but will have to wait for next book to see if true (hopefully very soon?). Do you have one?
You can definitely read this in a day. Will not want to put it down because you will not ant to lose track of all the things happening.
This is my honest and freely given review> I did receive an ARC book.
[Actually, did a beta read, thank you Ms. Cheever for the wonderful opportunity!!!]