Happy Sunday! I am reviewing Midnight Magic by Jo-Ann Carson* today. It is a book that I was unable to feature when it was released. The other three novels in A Ghost & Abby Mystery series are I Messed Up Christmas, Death by Seance and Death by Tarot Card. The Perfect Brew is Jo-Ann Carson's newest novel. It is the debut novel in Perfect Brew Cozy Mystery series.
Midnight Magic by Jo-Ann Carson has
us traveling to the Pacific northwest to the town of Sunset Cove. Abby
Jenkins is a widow with three children under the age of six. Abby obtains the position as a night janitor at
the haunted Sunset Cove Teahouse owned by Azalea. With Abby’s contacts among the living and her
ability to talk to the dead, she has decided to supplement her income by
hanging out her shingle as a private investigator. Charisma Dubois hires Abby to find diamonds
that are somewhere on the haunted estate of Graystone Manor. Abby soon learns that locating the jewels
will be a challenging task. She will
certainly earn her fee on this case.
Midnight Magic by Jo-Ann Carson is
the first tale in A Ghost & Abby Mystery series. I thought Midnight Magic was a lighthearted
magical story with a cast of unique characters.
Abby Jenkins is thirty two years old, a widow and has three young children. Abby can speak with ghosts, but she does not
want others to know about her gift. If
Abby wants to keep her secret, she should really be more discreet since Sunset
Cove is a small town. I wish the author
had provided more details on the characters (like last names). I wanted them to be fleshed out a bit more as
well. I liked the author’s
conversational writing style which made Midnight Magic easy to read. It is a short story that contains under 190
pages (the rest is excerpts from other books).
The story is written in the first person point-of-view which allows us
to be privy to Abby’s thoughts. I was
not a fan of the foul language and the amount of time devoted to intimate
relations (too explicit). I did not feel
that Midnight Magic needed either of these elements. I did enjoy the sarcastic banter, but the
story felt incomplete to me. To get the
necessary answers, I would need to pick up the next book in the series which I
was not compelled to do. Midnight Magic
is an upbeat paranormal mystery with a haunted hall, a vintage Viking, potent
potions, and magical mayhem.
Midnight Magic is currently available for free on Amazon (US)* (Amazon UK). Thank you for stopping by today. I am reviewing Stamped Out by Tonya Kappes on Monday. It is the first novel in A Mail Carrier Cozy Mystery series. I am off to relax with a book. I hope you have a peaceful day. Take care and Happy Reading!
Kris
The Avid Reader
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