Witchy Sour

Witchy Sour by Gina LaManna
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

I’m starting to sense a theme here - Lily keeps diving straight into trouble and/or kidnapping. This book, however, really raised the stakes and also built out the world of the isle.

So, for her first week on the isle, Lily managed to get herself into quite a bit of trouble. Now that she’s the official Mixologist, she is splitting her time between study and actually serving customers. Gus is still grumpy, but in this book we also get a bit more background on him but not all of it good. We also get introduced to a new secret society or two. One is a small group that is fighting against the Faction (the one that wants to have magical rule humans) and the other is some sort of Hogwarts-like wizard academy where they wear robes and colored ribbons indicating their proficiency in magic. One such robed person starts this book by asking for the Elixir, a potion that kills you, which sets off a number of wibly-wobbly timey-wimey stuff.

As far as the good stuff, Lily and X continue to grow closer, even going on a “non-date.” Her cousins continue to be in various sorts of trouble - Poppy is running out of her vampire potions which require a difficult to find ingredient and Zin is still determined to be the first female ranger. Both things get wrapped up in a nice way with only a little bit of hand waving (it just so happens Lily meets a new person on the isle who can procure hard to find ingredients). All in all, while Lily once again gets battered and bruised, this was a really great second book in this series.

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