Thursday, October 31, 2019

BAD TO THE CRONE by Amanda M. Lee


Title:  BAD TO THE CRONE

Series:  Spell’s Angels Cozy Mystery #1

Author:  Amanda M. Lee

Narrator:  Meghan Kelly

Length:  9 hours 21 minutes

Audible Release Date:  02.28.2019

Publisher:  Amanda M. Lee

Publish Date:   03.04.2019

Category /Genre:  Cozy Mystery

Recommended for:  18+ due to sexual content

Listenability:  OK  or  NSFW

Received from:  Meghan Kelly (as an Audible gifted copy)

Goodreads link: Bad to the Crone

Date completed: 08.08.2019



Description from the publisher:

Scout Randall is more than a witch on a motorcycle.  She’s more than the magic she wields.  She’s also a woman with a secret past that she can’t remember...a sarcastic wonder who acts before she thinks.

The one thing Scout knows with absolute certainty is that she’s got a purpose in life...and that purpose is fighting evil.  That’s why she joined the Spell’s Angels, a biker group with offices all across the world.  It’s because of the group that she finds herself in northern Lower Michigan, in a place called Hawthorne Hollow, where magic is out in the open and Scout finds her powers are constantly on display.

She was transferred to the town because they needed help, although no one will tell her what happened to the woman who held the position before her, and she’s constantly distracted by the local denizens, including Gunner Stratton, a shifter with a history he would rather keep to himself.

Scout is determined to do her job...even if it means taking on the congregation of a local church with murky origins.  It seems the dead are rising in Hawthorne Hollow, and it’s up to Scout to figure out why.

She’s going to have to learn to trust her new coworkers - and a few random outsiders in the colorful town - on the fly because they’re all going to have to come together to take down an enemy that is strong enough to wipe Hawthorne Hollow off the map.

Get ready for adventure because it’s going to be nonstop from here on out.

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BAD TO THE CRONE is the first book in the Spell’s Angels Cozy Mystery series.  These will definitely need to be read in the order of release.



This is entertainment!  Humor, suspense, snarkiness, and a touch of romantic interest had me glued to the steering wheel much more than my fear of driving!



This is a light-hearted cozy-witchy-detective team out to stop the enemy from destroy their town while getting to know the new witch in town.  The characters are sweetly diverse.  The storyline is simple enough, but engaging, and there is plenty of backstory.



The new witch in town, Scout, was left on at a firehouse when she was a toddler with nothing – not even a name.  The firemen named her after a character in a book (by someone whose last name is also Lee).  Turns out she is like no other witch any one has ever seen before.  I look forward to finding out more about Scout’s past and why she is so magically strong.



Narration:  Meghan Kelly did a wonderful reading of the story with just the right amount of dramatic flair.  Her pronunciations, enunciations, and emotions were well done.



Note:  While I received this book as a gifted audiobook copy, my opinions are my own and are given freely.



Spells Angels series:

1.      Bad to the Crone

2.      No Crones About It

Also from Amanda M. Lee:

·         Cupid in Crisis

·         Freaky Witches

·         Grim & the City

·         Grim Like Me

·         Luke on the Loose

Aisling Grimlock series:

1.      Grim Tidings

2.      Grim Offerings

3.      Grim Discovery

4.      Grim Reunion

5.      Grim Expectations

6.      Grim Holiday

7.      Grim Rising

8.      Grim Tempest

9.      Grim Vows

Avery Shaw Mysteries:

1.      Who, What, Where, When, Die

2.      If It Bleeds, It Leads

3.      Buried Leads

4.      Shot Off the Presses

5.      The Preditorial Page

6.      Misquoted & Demoted

7.      Headlines & Deadlines

8.      Misprints & Mistakes

9.      Bylines & Skylines

10.  Off the Record

11.  Unwritten & Underwater

12.  Extra!  Extra!  Dead All About It

13.  On Deadline & Under Fire

14.  Above the Fold & Below the Belt

15.  Oracles & Obituaries

Charlie Rhodes Mysteries:

1.      The Bigfoot Blunder

2.      The Chupacabra Catastrophe

3.      The Werewolf Whoops

4.      The Megalodon Mix-Up

5.      The Undead Uproar

5.5   Millie on a Mission

6.       The Incubus Impasse

Covenant College Mysteries:

1.      Awakening

2.      Whispering

3.      Conjuring

4.      Waxing & Waning

5.      Graduating

Wolf on the Job

Death Gate Grim Reapers series:

1.      Only the Lonely

2.      Only the Quiet

Dying Covenant Trilogy:

1.      Haunted Covenant

2.      Desperate Covenant

3.      Everlasting Covenant

Elemental Witches of Eternal Springs series:

1.      Bat Out of Spell

Grimlock Family shorts:

Now & Grim

Grim & Bear It

The Grim & the Dead

Jerry Takes Charge

Living Covenant Trilogy:

1.      Rising Covenant

2.      Dark Covenant

3.      Eternal Covenant

Moonstone Bay Mysteries:

1.      Witchin’ USA

2.      Witch Out of Water

3.      Freaky Deaky Tiki

4.      To Spell with It

Mystic Caravan Mysteries:

1.      Freaky Days

2.      Freaky Lies

3.      Freaky Hearts

4.      Freaky Games

5.      Freaky Places

6.      Freaky Rites

7.      Freaky Reapers

Wicked Witches of the Midwest series:

1.      Any Witch Way You Can

2.      Every Witch Way But Wicked

3.      Witching You Were Here

4.      Witching on a Star

5.      Something to Witch About

6.      Witch Me Luck

7.      Life’s a Witch

8.      Charms & Witchdemeanors

9.      The Trouble with Witches

10.  Murder Most Witchy

11.  A Witch Before Dying

12.  A Breath of Witchy Air

13.  Witch, Interrupted

14.  Flip the Witch Switch

15.  Witchin’ Around the Clock

Wicked Witches of the Midwest Fantasy series:

1.      Witchy Tales

2.      A Witch in Time

3.      Make a Witch

4.      A Witchmas Carol

5.      All My Witches

6.      Close Encounters of the Witchy Kind

Wicked Witches of the Midwest shorts:

1.      Careful What You Witch For

2.      Wicked Brew

3.      On a Witch and a Prayer

4.      You Only Witch Once

5.      The Christmas Witch

6.      Bewitched

7.      A Solstice Celebration

8.      Witchdependence Day

9.      Happy Witchgiving

9.6  Four-Leaf Clover

10.  Merry Witchmas

11.  Thistle While You Work

12.  Landon Calling

13.  I Dream of Twila

14.  How Aunt Tillie Stole Christmas



















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