Book Review: The Witching Moon Manor (The Spellbound Sisters #2) by Stacy Sivinski

The Witching Moon Manor by Stacy Sivinski
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

This month it seems like my Libby holds have gas after gas after gas-and reading The Witching Moon Manor made me really happy-just like the first book, it is a happy, warm hug while you sit and enjoy a cup of tea.

The Quigley sisters are reunited again after having their birthday visions and came home, each sister having problems-Anne is the Diviner of Chicago, but even she can't figure out why Mr. Crowley hasn't done his final Task. Violet had an accident at the circus with her husband, Emil, and decided to come home, and Beatrix...well, Beatrix can't write herself a new novel, and she's in a writer's block. So the three sisters come back together to figure things out like they always do, and just like magic, things start to unravel themselves and are put back to rights in their own ways.

Beatrix is having a problem writing her new book. She sits in front of her notebook, but no words have come to her. So she gets up and helps her sister, Anne, only to find herself in a bookstore where she becomes the sole owner thanks to Violet, and she opens a book and starts to read it, thinking that once she gets to the end, she'll see the words The End.

Instead, the words are scratched out, and new words are written...words I have forgotten, but I think they said "There are new endings' or something like that?

Once Beatrix reads those words and is also around Jennings and is slowly falling for him, it turns out that the dusty bookshelf is an enchanted bookstore, and then soon Beatrix is writing again.

Anne is trying to figure out how to keep Mr. Crowley and Philip together in the afterlife once she figures out what Final Task Mr. Crowley has been ignoring/didn't do. She meets his nephew, Vincent, and the two work together to figure out who the ring belongs to. They do butt heads during the whole thing, but then when they do come together, that's when she finds out that thanks to the ring and her new powers, she can walk through the past, and thanks to Vincent's help, she figures out who the ring belongs to, and even though it does belong to Vincent Crowley, it went from Mr. Crowley, Anne, May, Philip's sister, and then Vincent.

Violet was having problems with what had happened at the circus, and she threw herself into helping her sisters with their problems, ignoring her own. When she finally has a chance to sit down and think about what happened at the circus and to poor Emil, she talks to her sisters and drinks some tea, then goes to bed and has a dream that changes everything. Then, when they were together at the end, they all looked at the tea leaves....

...and finds out that someone is pregnant and is going to have a baby by the sign of the birds or something in the tea leaves.

This is my favorite series of all time and I need everyone reading this cozy series.

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Book Review: The Crescent Moon Tearoom by Silvia Sivinski

The Crescent Moon Tearoom by Stacy Sivinski
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

The Crescent Moon Tearoom is a book like a warm hug from a friend. That is the only way I can describe the book and how cozy it was. I wanted to stay there and never ever leave, that's how good it was. I didn't mean to fall in love with the characters and the writing, and how much I found that I needed it. It was also witchy as well, which was something I really liked, along with the Quigley sisters finding their true calling--one becoming a part of the circus, one becoming an author, and the last one becoming a Diviner of the City.

I felt like I wanted to drink all of the tea that was featured in the book, and also wished I could read tea leaves, but eh, I'll be fine without it. I also wished I could live in the tearoom with the sisters as they figured out the tasks the three witches needed so they could do it. I liked how they used different types of seeing magic to see which one it was that they had to go do, while at the same time the Council was pushing them to do their own thing in the background.

I forgot the sisters' names (my bad) but I still enjoyed reading them going their separate ways while the other sister wanted them together because of a curse. But it turns out their mother was haunting them and wanting them to be happy instead of being in that house alone together, running their tea shop. But it does turn out that one of the sisters's powers was growing and they became the Diviner of the City after the other Diviner stepped down, and the other two did their own thing. To me, it means that they're still family, but they're moving on to bigger and better things.

I also like the house in the book too, feeling almost realistic to the sisters and to me as I kept on reading. I wanted to live in the house too.

All in all, a really good cozy book that was very fun indeed.

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