Ever hear of Murphy’s Law: anything that can go wrong will
go wrong? Well, for someone like Cindy Eller, her life is practically a living
example of Murphy’s Law. Lately, everything has been perfect. She has a
wonderful ordinary (non-magical) boyfriend named Timothy, her bakery is doing
well, and her magic, limited though it is, is mostly behaving itself and no
longer turning men she kisses into toads. She shouldn’t have spoken so soon, however.
When a prince from the Middlelands shows up at the bakery claiming to be her
betrothed since before she was born and says Cindy’s younger sister can’t marry
until they do, everything starts going downhill. Too bad this prince just won’t
turn into a toad when he’s kissed. When she confronts her mother, she discovers
that she bargained for her eldest daughter to marry said prince in exchange for
a two-way ticked to Fairy. After returning, she discovered she was pregnant
with a Fae’s baby and blocked Cindy’s magic, but that’s all she will tell her.
To make matters worse, Cindy’s newest employee, a former cupid named Sumac’s
magic is going haywire and making everyone fall in love with the desserts from
Cindy’s shop. Will Cindy find a way to become un-betrothed? Will she survive
two weddings in two weeks, a really busy shop, and figuring out the truth about
her past?
Narrator, Michele Carpenter is a unique, funny, entertaining
narrator ideally suited for this book. Although the narration was a bit choppy
in the beginning, her use of different voices quickly draws the reader in and helped to distinguish and bring to life the well-developed characters. The plot is well-developed, fast-paced,
and keeps the reader laughing from start to finish and the narrative does a great job of keeping pace. Transitions between action,
humor, and internal dialogue are masterfully done. I especially liked the addition of songs at
the beginning and the end of the book that the narrator created. It would have been nice to have a bit more drawn out of a conclusion, but the ending was satisfactory and leaves the reader wanting to further follow Cindy's adventures. Although it is
recommended that listeners listen to How (Not) to Kiss a Toad first, it can
be listened to out of order. This funny, lighthearted novel will appeal to
humorous fantasy fans everywhere.
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