How (Not) to Kiss a Toad (Cindy Eller, #1)

by Elizabeth A Reeves

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I got the second in this series free and loved it so much I bought all the rest!! This is my guilty pleasure type of book, a magical story and it involved baking! It moved at a steady pace, not too rushed but not dragging either, from one form of bad luck for Cindy to another.

I loved Cindy and her family, especially her sisters. Her mother is fantastic, exactly the right sort of character to pick the names she did for her daughters (Cindy Eller, Golden Locke are two examples). Even the bad guys were well written and tricksy, I had a lot of fun trying to beat the book in guessing who was bad. And I generally failed.

There were typos throughout the series, it could probably do with a quick proof-read over, but they didn't particularly detract from the story and definitely had no effect on my enjoyment.

Definitely well worth a read, and I'm already on to the spin-off series Goldie Locke and the Were Bears.

★★★★☆ 4 stars