{"id":21532,"date":"2023-02-24T17:00:07","date_gmt":"2023-02-24T22:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/?p=21532"},"modified":"2023-02-27T20:49:04","modified_gmt":"2023-02-28T01:49:04","slug":"love-lies-and-hocus-pocus-allies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/21532","title":{"rendered":"Love, Lies, and Hocus Pocus: Allies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3xMYWpE\">Love, Lies, and Hocus Pocus: Allies<\/a><\/em> (2017) <a href=\"https:\/\/klishis.com\/Books\/authors\/Sherrer_Lydia.php\">Lydia Sherrer<\/a> (The Lily Singer Adventures)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3xMYWpE\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Love_Lies_and_Hocus_Pocus_Allies.jpg?resize=188%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Love, Lies, and Hocus Pocus: Allies\" width=\"188\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-21533\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Love_Lies_and_Hocus_Pocus_Allies.jpg?w=313&amp;ssl=1 313w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Love_Lies_and_Hocus_Pocus_Allies.jpg?resize=188%2C300&amp;ssl=1 188w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 188px) 100vw, 188px\" \/><\/a>Lily managed to escape from her father, which led to reuniting with her mother, but now knowing her father, she and Sebastian are working to stop him&#8211;any way they can.<\/p>\n<p>She is also returning home to visit the family she grew up with&#8211;including her step-brother.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;It wouldn\u2019t have been so bad if you\u2019d just come back once in a while. But you never called, never visited. You didn\u2019t even return my letters. It was like you didn\u2019t love me anymore.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Sir Kip decided to keep the power of communicating with Lily (but only Lily) and what seems to be greater intelligence, but it&#8217;s hard to tell with cats.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>She was informed, loudly and unequivocally, that cats prefer jazz, specifically ragtime.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>Nothing good ever came from spoiling a cat. They already thought they were gods. It was unwise to feed into their fantasy.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Publisher: Chenoweth Press<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rating: 7.5\/10<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Love, Lies, and Hocus Pocus: Allies (2017) Lydia Sherrer (The Lily Singer Adventures) Lily managed to escape from her father, which led to reuniting with her mother, but now knowing her father, she and Sebastian are working to stop him&#8211;any way they can. She is also returning home to visit the family she grew up [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[194,190,292,2,204,8,26,16],"tags":[665],"class_list":["post-21532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-7-5-10","category-cozy","category-ebook","category-fantasy","category-good","category-mystery","category-romance","category-supernatural","tag-lydia-sherrer"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piQkW-5Bi","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":21507,"url":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/21507","url_meta":{"origin":21532,"position":0},"title":"Love, Lies, and Hocus Pocus: Beginnings","author":"Michelle","date":"February 12, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"Love, Lies, and Hocus Pocus: Beginnings (2016) Lydia Sherrer (The Lily Singer Adventures) Lily Singer is a wizard. 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