My February reads

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Sarah Addison Allen – First frost 4/5
In this sequel to Addison Allen's Garden Spells, we meet up with the Waverley sisters some 10 years later. Sydney's daughter Bay is now a self-assured teenager loving a popular boy at school from afar. When Sydney finds out who he is, she tries her utmost to keep him from getting involved with Bay, because of her past with the boy's father. Sydney's sister Claire is now a succesfull candy maker, but seems to loose herself more and more in her business.

Addison Allen is the queen of magical realism and I love the surprising way she weaves the Waverley magic into her stories, like in Sydney's hair which changes colour all by itself or the way the Waverley house can shut people out. That being said, this was a weak sequel compared to Garden Spells. It felt like a compilation of loose storylines and quite a few of them did not seem to go anywhere. My favourite storyline was about Bay and Josh, their bonding was really quite cute.

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