{"id":21709,"date":"2023-03-05T10:54:25","date_gmt":"2023-03-05T15:54:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/?p=21709"},"modified":"2023-09-25T19:19:44","modified_gmt":"2023-09-25T23:19:44","slug":"bitter-sweet-magic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/21709","title":{"rendered":"Bitter, Sweet, Magic"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bitter, Sweet, Magic<\/a><\/em> (2022) Jessica Rosenberg<\/a> (Baking Up a Magical Midlife)<\/p>\n

\"Bitter,<\/a>The third book finds Cassie settled into her life in Maine, even though her daughter is still struggling to fit in to a new school and make friends.<\/p>\n

She also preparing for the fall festival the town is putting on–which is run by the town matriarch who hates her.<\/p>\n

She also has to deal with a strange man who keeps hanging around at her tent at the festival.<\/p>\n

Each book in the series has been a fun, quick, entertaining read. There were a couple of things I was a little iffy about, but can’t discuss them without spoilers. <\/p>\n

But it was a quick, diverting read, so it did what it was supposed to.<\/p>\n

Publisher: Blue Octopus Press<\/p>\n

Rating: 7\/10<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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She also preparing for the fall festival the town is putting on–which is run by the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[193,292,2,48,24],"tags":[656,707],"class_list":["post-21709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-7-10","category-ebook","category-fantasy","category-female","category-food","tag-bakery","tag-jessica-rosenberg"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piQkW-5E9","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":21537,"url":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/21537","url_meta":{"origin":21709,"position":0},"title":"Bread, Coffee, Magic","author":"Michelle","date":"February 24, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"Bread, Coffee, Magic (2022) Jessica Rosenberg (Baking Up a Magical Midlife) Cassie is settling into running her bakery and living in Maine, but her daughter misses her friends back in Georiga--and Cassie's ex has decided to come north and try and take Aurie back. 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