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Witches Get Stuff Done (Starfall Point, #1)
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This needed... something. I don't know if it needed more "page time" (since it's an audio listen, that's what I'm going with) or what, but I feel like I would have liked it more if... something.
The characters were way too accepting of ghosts and magic, for one thing. And there were some characterization plot holes that felt like they weren't properly thought out ahead of time. (view spoiler) (view spoiler)
The bad guy was obvious, but that's usually the case with Molly Harper. (view spoiler) This also didn't feel very romantic. After a rocky first start, Edison and Riley fell into a relationship pretty easily. And that would have been fine if I'd gotten more of a chick lit or a magical mystery vibe, but the book didn't really go into either of those things.
I did like the relationship between Riley, Caroline, and Alice and would have enjoyed more there. This is definitely the first in a series though, so I'm assuming that will happen -- although I do wish I'd known that before I picked it up. There is nothing like a time gap to kill my desire to read the next book in a series. Only Ilona Andrews gets away with that on a regular basis these days. Molly Harper is still fun, but her more recent stuff just doesn't have the same zing that her early stuff had.
Regarding narration, this book commits one of my cardinal sins: the two narrators were clearly not given the same notes. Amanda Ronconi pronounces the butler character's name as rhyming with "clover" -- in fact at first that's what I thought that was what the name was. Teddy Hamilton pronounces it with a softer "ah", like "father." It takes me out of the story every time dual narrators do this and I don't understand how massive issues like that make it through the editing process.
The characters were way too accepting of ghosts and magic, for one thing. And there were some characterization plot holes that felt like they weren't properly thought out ahead of time. (view spoiler) (view spoiler)
The bad guy was obvious, but that's usually the case with Molly Harper. (view spoiler) This also didn't feel very romantic. After a rocky first start, Edison and Riley fell into a relationship pretty easily. And that would have been fine if I'd gotten more of a chick lit or a magical mystery vibe, but the book didn't really go into either of those things.
I did like the relationship between Riley, Caroline, and Alice and would have enjoyed more there. This is definitely the first in a series though, so I'm assuming that will happen -- although I do wish I'd known that before I picked it up. There is nothing like a time gap to kill my desire to read the next book in a series. Only Ilona Andrews gets away with that on a regular basis these days. Molly Harper is still fun, but her more recent stuff just doesn't have the same zing that her early stuff had.
Regarding narration, this book commits one of my cardinal sins: the two narrators were clearly not given the same notes. Amanda Ronconi pronounces the butler character's name as rhyming with "clover" -- in fact at first that's what I thought that was what the name was. Teddy Hamilton pronounces it with a softer "ah", like "father." It takes me out of the story every time dual narrators do this and I don't understand how massive issues like that make it through the editing process.
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October 29, 2022
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November 3, 2022
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Agreed. As much as I adore Molly Harper I do feel like she's losing a lot of steam. Everything from the last few years just seems like phoning it in.
I think Mystic Bayou is a little newer. When I refer to her older stuff, I'm thinking of the early Jane Jamison books (which start off with Nice Girls Don't Have Fangs) and the earlier Half Moon Hollow books from the same world. I also really enjoyed How to Flirt with a Naked Werewolf and a few other books around that time. Her newer stuff seems to be following some patterns and just aren't quite as much fun as the early stuff.
Exactly. I'm still probably going to check out the next book because it is still Molly Harper, but unfortunately, I'm going to brace for "meh".
Yeah I seem to recall a similar problem. It's really unfortunate because I still want to like Molly Harper but her new stuff just doesn't compare to her older stuff.
I agree—her earlier work was better. I find most of her work now to just be okay.