Southern Magic Christmas

by Amy Boyles

It's Christmas in Magnolia Cove and Pepper Dunn is ready. She's making her list and checking it twice. Giant snowmen? Check. Magical snow? Check. Murder? Check. Wait-what? Axel's parents are visiting for the holiday and Pepper wants things to go smoothly. But when his mom insults the town Scrooge things turn rocky fast. Worse, when the town Scrooge is murdered, fingers quickly point to Axel's mom. Now it's up to Axel and Pepper to find the real murderer...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1791664857
• ISBN13: 9781791664855
• Release Date: December 2018
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 180 Pages
• Weight: 0.64 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Wishes and Freezing

Southern Magic Christmas It’s Christmas in Magnolia Cove, Alabama and brrr the temp is lowering a bit too quickly. I suppose it’s good writing that this one and the past 2 books have driven me crazy for Pepper to figure out something that is right in front of her face. I couldn’t put the book down until she got it. It actually causes me a lot of anxiety and sometimes I want to skip ahead to the answer and then go back to where I left off just so I can relax. But so far I haven’t done that. Proud of me? Lol. In this read I was screaming in my head for Pepper to figure out what was blatantly obvious. To me, anyway. I’d known about the “key” since about 10% through the book, yet it took Pepper nearly the entire book (89% through) to finally have an “Aha!” moment! Geez! Ok, she is a newer witch, but that won’t be an excuse forever. Eventually she’ll be a witch long enough to know better. However, she did figure everything out including the fire within and how to use it to her advantage. It was getting colder all the time in Magnolia Cove, ya’all! And Axel’s mom, Karen was found standing over a body with a knife in her hand. Oh dear. Although we know Axel’s momma would never kill anyone, it sure did look sus. And then the wraiths wanted to take Karen away forever because the victim’s husband said to do so. Luckily the wraith was fought off temporarily by someone whose strength is bigger than she thought as that gave Karen and Pepper more time to figure things out. Oh and I was thinking about something. Pepper now knows that Amelia and Cordelia are part genie, so they can possibly grant wishes yet the girls don’t know this of themselves. Betty also knows. So anyway, every time one of the girls says “wish” in a sentence, Pepper waits to see if the wish comes true. For instance, Amelia said, “Sometimes I wish I lived in a house as big as the Mobley’s.” Pepper instantly held her breath waiting to see if anything would happen. The thing is, don’t genies grant OTHER people’s wishes? They don’t grant their own, right? Plus, Amelia didn’t actually wish. She didn’t say, “I wish a I lived in a house as…” No, Amelia said that sometimes she wished… Something to think about. The last we we read about is a wish or two coming true and then a couple of folks just entering town. Those folks will definitely be in the next book. And even if not in the next book, a Christmas gift that Pepper got for Axel will definitely be brought up in a book soon, because it’s pretty major and could solve Axel’s biggest concern. Next in the Sweet Tea Witch Mysteries is book 9 of 28: “Southern Potions”