Welcome fellow readers! I hope you are having a nice, relaxing Sunday. Amy Clipston has a new novel releasing on May 9. It is The Beloved Hope Chest which is the fourth book in An Amish Heirloom series. It is a lovely story that nicely wraps up the series.
The Librarians and the Mother Goose Chase by Greg Cox is the second book in The Librarians trilogy. Eve Baird along with Cassandra Cillian, Jake
Stone, and Ezekiel Jones have just returned to the Library annex in Portland, Oregon
after another successful mission. They
are all off to relax when the Clippings Book (and the Librarians miniature
versions) start acting up. A professor
in Northumberland wakes up inside a pumpkin, a tree trimmer in Miami gets
carried away by a freaky wind, a librarian in Ohio found three mice without
eyes in her kitchen (and she attacked them with a butcher knife), and Mother
Goose’s Magic Garden, an amusement park, is about to be demolished. Jenkins believes that the 1918 Mother Goose
Treaty has been broken. In the 1700s
Elizabeth Goose created a spellbook that ended up getting published. The Librarian at that time rounded up all the
copies except one which remained with the family. It ended up getting divided into three
sections for the three different factions of the Goose family in 1918. It seems that a descendant has decided to
stage a coup and claim all three copies to enact a horrible spell. Stone, Cassandra, and Ezekiel each take a
different clipping and set off. Eve and
Jenkins have their hands full in the Library.
Mother Goose’s magic has set off the goose that lays the golden
egg. They need to catch it and return it
to its cage before more magical items start acting up. Just another typical day for the Librarians
and their Guardian! Join Eve, Ezekiel,
Stone, Jenkins and Cassandra on another magical adventure in The Librarians and the Mother Goose Chase.
The Librarians and the Mother Goose Chase is bewitching. Greg Cox
captured the quirky character’s personalities perfectly (for those of you who
watch the show) as well as the Library.
I could just envision the Library from the written descriptions. I found the book to be well-written,
engaging, and entertaining. I thoroughly
enjoyed the humor in this story. I found
myself laughing out loud many times while reading The Librarians and the Mother Goose Chase (especially when Jenkins was trying to capture the goose and Eve
with Dead Man’s Chest). The book has a
fast pace that never slacks. The
description of Mother Goose was spot on from the children’s books. I give The Librarians and the Mother Goose Chase 5 out of 5 stars. I do wish,
though, that the mystery had not been so easy to solve. One clue was all I needed to identify the responsible
party. Others not used to reading mysteries, will enjoy the twist! The book is written with four
points-of-view (Cassandra, Stone, Ezekiel, and Eve) which works for this
book. It is not confusing or
complicated. If you have not watched the
show or the movies, you can read the book.
The author provides the backstory
needed. I think it does help, though, to
have watched the show. As I read the
book, I could picture it in my head. I
have not had the opportunity to read The Librarians and The Lost Lamp (first
book in trilogy), but I have moved it to the top of my TBR pile. The Librarians and the Mother Goose Chase will be available on April 25.
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