Adventures in Babysitting meets Buffy the Vampire Slayer in this funny, action-packed novel about a coven of witchy babysitters who realize their calling to protect the innocent and save the world from an onslaught of evil.
Seventeen-year-old Esme Pearl has a babysitters club. She knows it's kinda lame, but what else is she supposed to do? Get a job? Gross. Besides, Esme likes babysitting, and she's good at it.
And lately Esme needs all the cash she can get, because it seems like destruction follows her wherever she goes. Let's just say she owes some people a new tree.
Enter Cassandra Heaven. She's Instagram-model hot, dresses like she found her clothes in a dumpster, and has a rebellious streak as gnarly as the cafeteria cooking. So why is Cassandra willing to do anything, even take on a potty-training two-year-old, to join Esme's babysitters club?
The answer lies in a mysterious note Cassandra's mother left her: "Find the babysitters. Love, Mom."
Turns out, Esme and Cassandra have more in common than they think, and they're about to discover what being a babysitter really means: a heroic lineage of superpowers, magic rituals, and saving the innocent from seriously terrifying evil. And all before the parents get home.
Star Rating: —> 4 Stars
Man, this was laying the nostalgia vibes on THICK! BUT I LOVED IT! I am what you may call a buffy super fan. I grew up on Buffy; literally my mom and I watched it together every single week, and I own every single season on itunes from the BNF (Before Netflix) Era lol.
This was so fun! It was a delightful romp that was in that mid YA range, a cool, fun, little mash up between Buffy The Vampire Slayer and The Babysitter's club (which I don't remember too much of though,) as well. I loved the whole "Chosen Sitters" stuff lol.
I feel like your odds of liking this are greatly affected by those shows & what they mean/ meant to you, because this is a bitttttt cheesy (but in a really good way for me at least). This may be a 3-3.5 star read for those less invested in Buffy, for all I know
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