A Cast-Off Coven
by Juliet Blackwell
Series: Witchcraft Mystery #2
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Published by Berkley on June 1, 2010
Genres: Cozy Paranormal Animal Mystery
Pages: 336
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Also in this series: Secondhand Spirits, Hexes and Hemlines, In a Witch's Wardrobe, , Tarnished and Torn, Fool's Gold, A Vision in Velvet, A Haunting is Brewing, Spellcasting in Silk
Students are spooked at the San Francisco School of Fine Arts, and Lily is called in to search for possible paranormal activity. In return she's been promised a trunkful of Victorian-era clothes recently discovered in a school storage closet.
But Lily finds something else: the body of a wealthy patron of the school. In between running the store and seeing her new boyfriend, Max—a "mythbuster" who is uncomfortable with her witchcraft—she uses her sleuthing skills to try to solve the murder. Soon Lily senses something from the school's vintage clothes, but it's not the smell of mothballs—it's the unmistakable aura of evil intent.
A Cast-Off Coven by Juliet Blackwell is a fantastic read.
BEWITCHED 2.0!!
Lily Ivory is back in A Cast-Off Coven by Juliet Blackwell. This time we are dealing with some weird stuff at the San Francisco School of Fine Arts. Poor Lily. That’s all I have to say because that girl has to deal with Max’s jealousy over certain men she meets and sees throughout the book. Max also does not want her to do anything with her “witchy” powers.
All I gotta say is…this could be BEWITCHED Rebooted!! Haha, okay, I’m done. But seriously, they need to change their names and go back in time to when Bewitched was televised, and there they go.
But yeah, Lily has to deal with a ghost, a demon, a jealous boyfriend, and demon-possessed people. This book was pretty good as it held my interest. I am looking forward to seeing what else happens for Lily, Oscar, Aidan, Maya, Bronwyn, and Max. Those four are all going to be a whole lot busier now that Lily is staying in San Francisco.
Four Stars
A Cast-Off Coven by Juliet Blackwell gets a 4-star rating. My mom found one of Juliet Blackwell’s books at the airport, and I couldn’t be happier. Juliet Blackwell has some really great series’ that she is writing. If you haven’t read this Witchcraft Mystery series, I hope you will check it out now. Ms. Blackwell also has the Haunted Home Renovation Series set in the San Francisco bay area too.
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About Juliet Blackwell
Juliet Blackwell was born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area, the youngest child of a jet pilot from New York and an editor from Texas. She graduated with a degree in Latin American Studies from University of California, Santa Cruz, and went on to earn Masters degrees in Anthropology and Social Work from the State University of New York, Albany.
While in graduate school she published several articles based on her research with immigrant families from Mexico and Viet Nam, as well as one full-length translation: Miguel León-Portilla’s seminal work, Endangered Cultures. Juliet taught Medical Anthropology at SUNY-Albany, was a producer for a BBC documentary about Vietnamese children left behind by US soldiers, and worked as an elementary school social worker in rural New York. Upon her return to California, she became a professional artist and ran her own decorative painting, historical renovation, and domestic design studio for more than a decade.
In addition to mainstream novels, Juliet pens the New York Times Bestselling Witchcraft Mysteries and the Haunted Home Renovation series. As Hailey Lind, she wrote the Agatha Award-nominated Art Lover’s Mystery series. She is past president of Northern California Sisters in Crime and former board member of Mystery Writers of America.
Juliet lives in a hundred-year-old house with extensive botanical gardens in Northern California but spends as much time as possible in Europe and Latin America. She believes in the magic of language, travel, and cultural exchange to open hearts, minds, and souls.
