Yarn to go

Yarn to Go is about a dessert baker taking over her aunt's yarn retreat. After living with her aunt for so long and with her death being too sudden, Casey finds herself taking over her aunt's retreat. With the confusion of taking the leadership position, an annoying manager continues to nag Casey about taking over at any point in time in case she wants to back out. And she's got her own yarn project to do as well for the retreat! But after an unexpected death from one of the members in the retreat, Casey's stuck figuring it out on her own. And this might even be the same murder from the yarn retreat before and her aunt's unexpected death..... This book was a little more down to earth but a bit slower than I thought it would be. Casey didn't realize who the killer was till the last chapter or so. It looked a little more realistic but I think could have been placed at least two or three chapters prior to the ending of the book.

The Last Dragonslayer

Recently, this series has caught my attention. The Chronicles of Kazam by Jasper Fforde starts out with The Last Dragonslayer. Jennifer Strange is 16, orphan and the back up manager of Kazam Mystical Arts Management in absence of the recent Great Zambini. But the world that she lives in doesn't try to hide the magic but rather use it for helpful services like moving illegally parked cars, de-mole a garden or fix the pipeline in a house. Jennifer must find out how to stop the death of the very last dragon on Earth but how can she do that if she's supposed to be the dragonslayer? This book was better than I expected and a different kind of take on the types of magic. It gives the world a new idea of the magical world, history and its high legends. I thought that this book would give a good laugh for girls who think that they can't go into business or some sort of agent. The characters were given the right kind of humor and sarcasm needed. There's new animals and a science sort of take on magic, preservation and the limited use of some types of energy.