Mystery with preachy wiccan, New Age ideas ( )

I really enjoy this series. It transports me to a mindset that fills the cozy mystery need. The characters are enjoyable, not annoying and they continue to evolve. Will continue tonread the whole series. Not too many series i can say that about.
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Crap, just total endless blathering..."yadda yadda yadda" crap.

This is it for the series......I guess I have no patience for stoopidity.

Ok, I bumped this up to a "2". reason being the 2nd 1/2 of the book had less personal narrative...still quite a bit of co-dependence, but that's when the action began.

I was still able to figure out "who done it" well before the final 1/4 of the book. ( )

Because I read book 5, Where There's a Witch, before book 4 No Rest For the Wiccan, I know that quite a bit of what happens in this book sets up subplots for the next, including the romantic problems. Maggie O'Neill's younger sister, Melanie 'Have Gossip - Will Spill' Craven, is the one to set a major subplot in book 5 rolling. Melanie is not like her sister. The only thing about Mel that I found at all likeable was her fierce and protective love toward her little daughters, Jenna and Courtney. Mel is six months pregnant and on enforced bed rest. Her mother's spoiled princess, Mel has been running Mrs. Patty O'Neill ragged. Patty ropes Maggie into caring for the kids after work until Greg Craven comes home. Greg is a very busy lawyer and he's been working longer hours lately. (If Mel treats her husband the way she treats her mother and sister, I don't blame him.)

It seems a good bet that one or both of Maggie's nieces is a sensitive, too. I wonder if all three got it from Patty's mother, the late Grandma Cora.

Mel does something really foolish that makes her home less secure. One of Mel's friends is part of the book's mystery and Libby brings Maggie into it even more than a date with Deputy Tom Fielding already had. It wasn't difficult to figure out the killer, but I don't read this series for the murders.

The obnoxious Reverend Baxter Martin of the First Church of Evangelical Light makes an unwelcome appearance. (With all the enjoyable pop culture references sprinkled throughout the book, I wish Maggie were not too young to compare Martin with the first Reverend Trask of the original Dark Shadows soap opera. Alas, it doesn't seem likely that Maggie will ever deal with him as Barnabas Collins did with Trask or even as Judith Collins dealt with his descendant, the Reverend Gregory Trask. If Baxter becomes the murder victim in a later book, I will be neither surprised nor sorry.)

I enjoyed the interaction between Maggie and her kith and kin more than the actual mystery, which is fine by me.

Fellow cat lovers, you will probably delight in the adorable stray black kitten introduced in this book. Also, the information about Scotland and white cats in chapter 9 was interesting. ( )

The family/townie interaction is interesting here, but the romantic issues are irritating. ( )