Monday, August 19, 2019

Witch is When series books 1-3 (Witch is When it all Began, Witch is When Life Got Complicated, and Witch is When Everything Went Crazy) review by Adele Abbott

Witch Is When It All Began (A Witch P.I. Mystery Book 1) by Adele Abbott
Paperback: 212 pages
Publisher: Implode Publishing Ltd (August 24, 2015)
Rating: 3 out of 5 stars

So, this series starts off okay. Not super thrilling, but not so horrible that I didn't finish the book. The main character is Jill Gooder who discovers that she is a witch.

I do think the secondary witch plot-line took too much of the story space up, I think it could have been used to develop the characters more. Jill's sister Kathy comes across as a bit of a bully, but apparently Jill is a serial liar to Kathy. Jill needs to grown a spine and stand up to Kathy every once in a while.
Spoiler...
Jill in an ineffective P.I., the crime solved itself. She was also very lucky to have not been killed confronting the killer alone and not letting anyone know, especially since Jill knew he killed his sister.



Witch Is When Life Got Complicated (A Witch P.I. Mystery Book 2) by Adele Abbott
Paperback: 237 pages
Publisher: Implode Publishing Ltd (August 24, 2015)
Rating: 2 out of 5 stars

This book is more of the first book, but the characters are even flatter. Jill becomes a doormat for her sister and cousins to walk all over. I completely disliked Kathy in this book, she bullies Jill into giving her daughter, Lizzie, some childhood toys that Jill had lied about getting rid of previously.
And if I remember correctly Jill goes again to confront the murderer with no backup and not letting anyone know what she is doing. The book felt dragged out, and that the author forgot her own character (i.e. Jill criticizes someone else's 70s style clothes, forgetting that her apartment is done in 60s and 70s style furniture.)



Witch Is When Everything Went Crazy (A Witch P.I. Mystery Book 3) by Adele Abbott
Paperback: 227 pages
Publisher: Implode Publishing Ltd (September 7, 2015)
Rating: 2 out of 5 stars

It feels like the author still hadn't figured out her own world. In this book Jill has to attend two events on the same day. One of the events is in Candlefield (where her witch relatives live) previously time was supposed to not pass while Jill is in Candlefield, but in this book Jill gets very worked up about how to attend the two events on the same day. Doesn't make sense. Jill hates everything except her beanies, that she let her sister, Kathy, bully her into giving to her niece Lizzie.
It feels like the mystery plot-lines in these books gets overshadowed by the craziness of Jill's life.



In conclusion... this series I believe is up to 33 books at the time of writing this post. It may get better, but I won't be continuing on with the series. It seems to average at 4 1/2 stars on amazon.com, I don't know how. In three books I became very frustrated with the characters, I wish the mystery plot-line and the witch plot-line tied in together, which it may do further in the series, but at the start is where it was really needed.



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