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Love, Lies, and Hocus Pocus: Beginnings (The Lily Singer Adventures, Book 1) (Volume 1) (2016. Auflage)

von Lydia Sherrer (Autor)

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Fantasy. Fiction. Humor (Fiction.) HTML:

Saving the world is such a bother when it makes you late for tea.


Wizard Lily Singer is kept busy managing library archives, studying magic, and trying to keep her witch friend Sebastian from dragging her into trouble. Unfortunately, he loves adventure even more than she loves being left alone.
She doesn't want to investigate a malignant spell in a haunted house, but Sebastian is promising rare books as the reward. She also doesn't want to hurt her family, but is tired of being lied to about her past. And she definitely doesn't want to get stuck in a dangerously unstable time loop, but Sebastian is in trouble??again...
Strangling her friend, as satisfying as it would be, won't fix her problems. If she wants answers, and to not miss tea, she had best find the right spell for the job??before everything goes to hell, and takes them all with it.
With 400+ five star ratings on Amazon and Goodreads, this urban fantasy series full of adventure and snarky humor is guaranteed to cause loud snorts of laughter, tea cravings, and sleep loss. Don't start reading at night or you'll never go to bed! Great for fans of urban fantasy from Harry Potter to Harry Dresden. Pick up Book 1 and enter your magical escape today.
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Love, Lies, and Hocus Pocus Universe Books:

LILY SINGER ADVENTURE SERIES
Beginnings (#1)
Revelations (#2)
A Study In Mischief (#2.5) - novella, can be read as a standalone
Allies (#3)
Legends (#4)
Cat Magic (#4.5) - novella, can be read as a standalone
Betrayal (#5)

Identity (#6)
DARK ROADS TRILOGY (Sebastian Blackwell backstory)
Accidental Wtich (#1)
More coming s
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Titel:Love, Lies, and Hocus Pocus: Beginnings (The Lily Singer Adventures, Book 1) (Volume 1)
Autoren:Lydia Sherrer (Autor)
Info:Chenoweth Press (2016), Edition: 1st, 240 pages
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Hmm... I really struggle with with this review. Mostly because I didn't realize this was a 3 part book (the book description does not make light of this) and so when the characters and story completely changed I was sooo confused!

Each part was good but I honestly only remember the first part...

Apparently each part of the story introduces characters for the future books.

I powered through the book because I listened to the audiobook while I was doing chores and walking and wanted to finish it.

I'm going to have to re listen to this one though before I move on to the next book in the series and will update my review at that time. ( )
  thisgayreads | Nov 4, 2023 |
Lydia Sherrer’s Lily Singer Adventures now has seven volumes plus a few interstitial novellas. It is an urban fantasy about Lily, a young wizard, and Sebastian, a witch. The wizards in this world have inborn magical talent. Witches must study magic and often know more than they can practice. I was expecting more zip from the first volume of a series of this length. The story is told in a workmanlike manner but with nothing much to distinguish it. 3 Stars. ( )
  Tom-e | Feb 13, 2023 |
Grindingly mediocre.
  2wonderY | Jan 2, 2023 |
Saving the world is such a bother when it makes you late for tea.

By day, book-loving wizard Lily Singer manages library archives. By night? She sleeps, of course. In between, she studies magic and tries to keep her witch friend Sebastian from dragging her into trouble. Unfortunately, trouble comes looking for her on a regular basis.

When Sebastian needs help breaking a magical curse, Lily knows things are not as they seem. Their quest to unravel the truth and free a tormented soul uncovers hints about Lily's mysterious past--and those working to hide it from her. As if that were not enough, Sebastian gets them stuck in a time loop and Lily must track down the culprit. But they are not the only ones interested in this strange phenomenon, and it becomes a race to the source of the magical disturbance, with all their lives hanging in the balance.

Full of unexpected twists and snarky humor, Love, Lies, and Hocus Pocus: Beginnings is book one of the Lily Singer Adventures urban fantasy series. If you enjoy magic-filled adventures like Harry Potter and Supernatural, then you'll love this delightful new series. Pick up Beginnings and enter your magical escape today!
  Gmomaj | Sep 10, 2022 |
Review of Lydia Sherrer’s Love, Lies and Hocus Pocus

Split into two halves, this novel features a wizard, Lily Singer, and a witch, Sebastian Barrington, using ancient Sumerian (the oldest known written language) to cast magic. Lily is a wizard because she was born able to touch “the Source” of magic in the world, whereas Sebastian was not, so he has to manipulate magical beings, like the fae, in order to do magic.

The first half of the book sees Lily helping Sebastian, who hires himself out to break curses and exorcise ghosts from ancient Georgian homes, break a 100-year-old curse on a plantation house which a man, cursed by his jilted lover, has haunted since his death. In the second half of the book, Lily once again helps Sebastian, this time to recover an ancient clay magical device called a lugal-nam, which controls time.

While each story is well written and interesting, the book as a whole would have hung together better if the two stories had been intertwined.

For a first novel, it’s still a fun and interesting read, and refreshingly demonstrates the ancient Sumerian love of magic, moving magical stories decidedly away from some writers’ love of Latin. ( )
  hefruth | Feb 4, 2022 |
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Fantasy. Fiction. Humor (Fiction.) HTML:

Saving the world is such a bother when it makes you late for tea.


Wizard Lily Singer is kept busy managing library archives, studying magic, and trying to keep her witch friend Sebastian from dragging her into trouble. Unfortunately, he loves adventure even more than she loves being left alone.
She doesn't want to investigate a malignant spell in a haunted house, but Sebastian is promising rare books as the reward. She also doesn't want to hurt her family, but is tired of being lied to about her past. And she definitely doesn't want to get stuck in a dangerously unstable time loop, but Sebastian is in trouble??again...
Strangling her friend, as satisfying as it would be, won't fix her problems. If she wants answers, and to not miss tea, she had best find the right spell for the job??before everything goes to hell, and takes them all with it.
With 400+ five star ratings on Amazon and Goodreads, this urban fantasy series full of adventure and snarky humor is guaranteed to cause loud snorts of laughter, tea cravings, and sleep loss. Don't start reading at night or you'll never go to bed! Great for fans of urban fantasy from Harry Potter to Harry Dresden. Pick up Book 1 and enter your magical escape today.
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Love, Lies, and Hocus Pocus Universe Books:

LILY SINGER ADVENTURE SERIES
Beginnings (#1)
Revelations (#2)
A Study In Mischief (#2.5) - novella, can be read as a standalone
Allies (#3)
Legends (#4)
Cat Magic (#4.5) - novella, can be read as a standalone
Betrayal (#5)

Identity (#6)
DARK ROADS TRILOGY (Sebastian Blackwell backstory)
Accidental Wtich (#1)
More coming s

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