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Sprites and Scuttlebutt
by Elizabeth Pantley
Series: Magical Mystery Book Club #6
Series Rating:
Published by Independently Published Setting: Cascade Valley, Colorado; Everglow
Genres: Cozy Paranormal Animal Mystery
Pages: 289
Format: ebook, Kindle
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Also in this series: Shifting and Shenanigans, Vampires and Villains, Cowboys and Chaos, Bakeries and Buffoonery, Genies and Gibberish, Secrets and Scallywags, Hexes and Hooligans, Meditation and Mischief
This book club is hooked on traveling into books to become the amateur sleuths! In this journey, the club travels to the Kingdom of Everglow.
The royal family is rocked to the core when a key staff member falls dead at a community event. In the turmoil that follows, any evidence of what happened is destroyed, so they must go by the recollection of witnesses who were too busy enjoying the celebration to offer any valuable testimony.
The royal family is further distressed when they return to the castle to see signs of a break in that somehow defied their complex security system. They wake the next day to discover that one member of the royal family has fallen into a deep, deathlike sleep.
Can the Snapdragon Inn Book Club uncover the plot behind this attack on the royal family? Can they find the antidote to wake the sleeping royal from a supernatural slumber? Can they bring peace back to the worried royal family and the frightened community?
Let’s hope they can, since they must solve the mystery and reach The End to get out of the book and back to their home in Colorado.
Sprites and Scuttlebutt by Elizabeth Pantley has the book club entering a book about sprites.
Will the Book Club stop the culprit?
The Book Club
Paige, Glo, Sebastian, Zell, Frankie, Mollie, Valeria, Moonbeam, and Forrest are going to have to rely on their information-gathering skills. The book club has to not get distracted by the colorful scenery of the story and everything else to be able to solve the mystery. Besides that, I love how, with each new installment, each member of the book club gets character development. I also love how they help Valeria embrace the role of being an amateur sleuth with them and help her discover what not to do. Zell and Frankie just keep getting more hilarious with each new installment. Mollie is getting a bit better about embracing the fact that she won’t always be seen by the book inhabitants.
Overall I love this gang and I can’t wait to jump back in with another installment.
The Mystery
The Book Club enters the book and is having fun at the festival when one of the royal staff members gets killed, and then the very next day, they find out that one of the royal family members got put into a deathlike sleep. They are determined to find out who did this and bring them to justice.
I must say, wow. Ms. Pantley had me going there on everything. I didn’t catch anything about what was going on within the royal family.
Five Stars
I am giving a five-star rating to Sprites and Scuttlebutt by Elizabeth Pantley and a recommendation to any cozy paranormal mystery readers. Ms. Pantley sure knows how to weave a great story that will keep you guessing. I’m only saying that because she did with me and had me feeling like I was one of the book club members getting to go on an adventure with the rest of them to solve another mystery.
Magical Mystery Book Club Series
Thank you for dropping by! I hope you enjoyed this review of Sprites and Scuttlebutt by Elizabeth Pantley.
Until the next time,
Happy Reading!
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About Elizabeth Pantley
Elizabeth Pantley is the international bestselling author of The No-Cry Sleep Solution and twelve other books for parents, published in over twenty languages.
She simultaneously writes well-loved cozy mysteries: The Destiny Falls Mystery & Magic book series and the Magical Mystery Book Club series.
Elizabeth lives in the Pacific Northwest, the gorgeous inspiration for the setting in many of her books.
Reading this book contributed to these challenges:
- 2024 Alphabet Soup RC
- 2024 Alphabet Soup-Author Edition-RC
- 2024 Cloak and Dagger
- 2024 Cozy Mystery Reading Challenge
- 2024 Craving the Cozies
- 2024 Cruisin' thru the Cozies
- 2024 Finishing the Series RC
- 2024 Goodreads RC
- 2024 Literary Escapes
- 2024 Medical Examiner Mystery RC
- 2024 Mystery Marathon
- 2024 Six Shooter RC
Wow! Thank you for the amazing feature for Sprites! I have so much fun writing this series – I skip to work every day. I feel like one of the book club members and they just drag me along and tell me what’s happening and I write it down. They are a pushy bunch! 🙂