Welcome to Lemon Bliss, Louisiana where an abandoned lemon tea factory is the most happening place in town and witches secretly rule the roost. Violet Broussard gets called back to the hometown she left in the dust when a dead body is found in the abandoned factory bequeathed to her by her grandmother. Violet has plans, big plans, and they most definitely don’t involve staying in Lemon Bliss any … Bliss any longer than necessary. The town is mostly famous for its lemon tea infused with enough alcohol to make one experience bliss, hence the town’s name.
Yet, once she’s there, things get a tad wacky. There’s the old factory, which has amateur supernatural investigators sneaking into it, there’s the fact that the moment Violet sets foot in town, no one wants her to leave, and then things get plain crazy.
Violet’s mother announces she’s a witch, and so is Violet and apparently half the freakin’ town. Violet’s busy trying to absorb this astonishing fact—who knew?!—and gets caught up in sorting out exactly how a dead body ended up in the factory.
Fending off the opinions of her mother and a gaggle of coven witches, Violet finds herself falling for Gabriel, a too-handsome-for-his-own-good sort who happens to be descended from witches as well. As if she doesn’t have enough going on already.
Loopy lemon tea, witches and wackiness abound in this cozy mystery.
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Great start of a new cozy mystery. Wish I could find out that I am a (good) witch. But I be mad that I was not told when younger. However, our new witch has more important things to do. Needs to protect her mom and soon to be coven from being accused of murder. It can’t be her since she is only the owner of the building and lives elsewhere.
Love the characters. Love the story line.
Admit that i am playing catch up since i started with book 3 first.
This is my honest and freely given review.
Witch You Wouldn’t Believe #1 – My first book by this author and I was pleasantly surprised by this good story. Set in Louisiana (my second choice after Texas), this well written story about a witch coven is intriguing and mesmerizing. The characters range from interesting to annoying and do grow as the series goes on (I’ve also read Witch is When it Gets Crazy #3). I do have a problem with a character not trusting her mother and she really doesn’t have a broom to ride with her suspicions. She has a good relationship with her mother, but still thinks she could be a murderer? Nope, didn’t work for me, but the story held my attention to the end. There is humor, but not much about magic. This book does a good job setting up the series. It is not a cliffhanger although I assume the story continues in book 2. (There’s still the background story from book 1 in book 3.) 5*
Witch is When it Gets Crazy #3 – As much as I would have enjoyed reading the second book, I didn’t have it. The coven is getting more interesting, along with the characters. The story is interesting, but I still have a problem with Violet not trusting her mother, and some of the older witches, she’s too strong with her suspicions and her actions. She was proven wrong in Witch You Wouldn’t Believe (#1), yet she didn’t learn a thing and her actions are dishonest. Why not use a “keep out” spell for the factory, like the Coven’s room. Otherwise, the characters are developing into an interesting bunch and the plot keeps the reader immersed. 4*
Violet Broussard runs a successful bakery near New Orleans.
She gets a call to come back to Lemon Bliss, Louisiana.
A dead body has been discovered in an abandoned
lemon tea factory. Violet inherited this factory and her
grandmother’s house.
Since the factory is legally hers, the Sheriff wants to talk
to her in person. It seems the deceased was one of two
supernatural investigators that believe the factory has
unnatural happenings occurring and that her mother and
several woman are involved.
Arriving home, Violet not only finds a problem with the
dead man but discovers that she is a witch. Her mother
had decided not to reveal this earlier in her life. In addition,
her mother and friends are all witches. Her mother heads
up a secret coven. Their meeting place is a secret room in the
old lemon tea factory.
Everyone wants a Violet to move back to Lemon Bliss.
What will she do? What will happen with the factory?
A quick read cozy story.
This is the first book in the Lemon Tea Cozy Mysteries series.
The epilogue hints at what is to come.