Suspects aren’t really over the top, and motives are present if a bit convoluted. It’s not to say that Ink and Shadows, or the series, don’t have value these books are entertaining and even emotional at times I dare say more than one reader will choke up at the ending of this book. Books are everywhere, and this is one of the bright spots in the series. The CBD twist in this book seems as though it was just thrown in.
The scones are far and few and play little to no part in the overall scheme of things.
Everyone knows about Nora and her co-conspirators. The premise of this edition to the series has made me wonder if the author might be trying to take the character down a different path from where she started and this might be a transition book? First off, there is no real secret society, which is one of the things that drew me to the series in the first place. There are times when I have wanted to shout at her to “get a spine”. Although she has friends and the community’s support, she always backs off whenever she wants to do or say something, making it hard to like her. Her bookstore sounds impressive, as does the town itself. But it’s not as if she killed someone, although, if you are just now reading book one, you might not realize this. I get not wanting to lose control, and given her past, I can understand her reluctance to drive or reveal her past. Nora has never seemed to grow to me even now, in book four, Ink and Shadows, she is far too namby-pamby. The main character is easy to like and dislike equally. My take on the “A Secret, Book, and Scone Society” series has sometimes been good, at other times not good. Genre/Category: Cozy – Amateur Sleuth/Bookstore Series: A Secret, Book, and Scone Society Novel – Book #4 It’s up to Nora and the Secret, Book, and Scone Society to sort out the clues before more bodies turn up and the secrets from Celeste’s past come back to haunt them all.
Declared an accident, the ruling can’t explain the old book page covered with strange symbols and disturbing drawings left under Nora’s doormat. Nora and her friends in the Secret, Book, and Scone Society are doing their best to put an end to the strife-but then someone puts an end to a life. Suddenly, former friends and customers are targeting not only Nora and Miracle Books but a new shopkeeper, Celeste, who’s been selling CBD oil products. But a family-values group disapproves of the magical themes and wastes no time launching a modern-day witch hunt. Known for her window displays, Nora Pennington decides to showcase fictional heroines like Roald Dahl’s Matilda and Madeline Miller’s Circe for Halloween.
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