Cupcakes, Trinkets, and Other Deadly Magic
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4.3 • 275 Ratings
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Publisher Description
If you’d asked me a week ago, I would have told you that the best cupcakes were dark chocolate with chocolate cream cheese icing, that dancing in a crowd of magic wielders — the Adept — was better than sex, and that my life was peaceful and uneventful. Just the way I liked it. That’s what twenty-three years in the magical backwater of Vancouver will get you — a completely skewed sense of reality. Because when the dead werewolves started showing up, it all unraveled … except for the cupcake part. That’s a universal truth.
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Cupcakes, Trinkets, and Other Deadly Magic is the first book in the Dowser series, which is set in the same universe as the Oracle, Reconstructionist, Amplifier, Archivist, and Misfits of the Adept Universe series. While it is not necessary to read all the series, in order to avoid spoilers the ideal reading order of the Adept Universe begins with Cupcakes, Trinkets, and Other Deadly Magic (Dowser 1).
Customer Reviews
This was surprisingly enjoyable
This was surprisingly enjoyable:)
Cupcakes, Trinkets and other Deadly magic
Meghan Ciara Diodge
Cupcakes, Trinkets and other Deadly magic 7.5/10
Free iBook. Good book, great writing style, interesting story, although I do get infuriated reading about stupid heroines who make bad choices, put themselves in danger, don’t see the obvious, and don’t ask intelligent questions. I prefer smart heroines, like the other Amplifier series.
Anyway, Jade is a young half/witch, half-human who has a cupcake bakery in Vancouver, and doesn’t pay much attention to magic. Were-wolves are being murdered, and Jane is pulled into the inquiry by a vampire and the werewolf pack since her trinkets are at the scene of the murders. It seems she isn’t half-human...but no one seems to be able to tell what she is.
A great writer
The starting point for a fantastic series. At one point, my entire “past read” list was a screen of just this author’s entire book catalogue. She’s just that good.
I am so glad I found her books, I’m glad I continued reading them all, and I still come back to hang out with the OG series for a comfort read.
It is well written and well paced - and I would award a five star review just for plot driven character development, even in side characters, throughout the series.