The book selection of the month takes the club into a charming and idyllic world of gnome-like people who love the earth, celebrating, and honey. What they don’t like is the mysterious ailment that is turning students at the local college into hideous versions of themselves.
The timing is terrible, as it coincides with the upcoming Honeybee Moon Festival, the community’s biggest celebration of the year.
The event is only a week away. Can the motley group determine what’s causing the students’ transformations, stop it from spreading, and get them back to normal? They better, since it’s the only way they can exit the book and get back home to Colorado.
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Hexes and Hooligans by Elizabeth Pantley is a novella in the Magical Mystery Book Club series. It can be a stand alone story that is short enough for you to read in one day, like I did, or you can take your time reading it. It is considered a novella because it is shorter than a regular novel and is about half the size.....however it is probably more story because of the size the author gets to the point quicker and the pace may be faster as well. Regardless of the size and number of pages Hexes and Hooligans will grab your attention immediately !!
In the Magical Mystery Book Club series there are a group of eight people ranging from a mother and young son to Zell who was one of the originals with Gee-Gee, Paige's great-grandmother. Paige and her Aunt Glo inherited the book club and along with the other members go down to the basement where there is a magical library. They decide on a book and start reading it out loud and then they are magically placed inside the book and have to solve the case before they can return to Colorado. Luckily the Snapdragon Inn, their home and base, travels with them and adapts to the time frame that the story takes place. Oh and I forgot to mention that among the members of the group are Frank, a talking cat and Mollie who is a ghost that returned with them when they solved a case in the Wild West.
In Hexes and Hooligans there is one significant difference in that there are no murders for the book club to solve. However the book that the group chooses has a unique storyline..... They pick Beauty is in the Eye of the Hexer and start reading the story out loud. They then find themselves in a beautiful little town that is adorable !! They come across three young and beautiful girls who are very upset thinking that they are ugly. The book club members soon learn that they are in a town of gnomes and the three girls have had a curse or something placed on them to make them look "different and ugly".
The group then learns that they are in the book as visiting professors to the college where the girls are students and they are to work with the detective to find out what is happening. As they are trying to get to know the area and the people, more students are placed under the spell and the only thing they have in common besides being students are that they are all in the pageant in the upcoming Honeybee Moon Festival.
Readers will love not only this story but all the previous books in this series. Pantley knows how to hook you in immediately and you are whisked away with the book club. This is such a unique series that you will want more and more and luckily Pantley has no problem providing readers with books regularly. So if you haven't read any of the books in this series, I cannot stress it enough....you have got to get reading this series !!! I guarantee you will LOVE, LOVE, LOVE it !!!!
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