![]() Then I started skipping around in the book, because without the talking cat, there’s not much left. I took to skipping everything the cat said and did. I’m not a talking animals person, but sometimes I can get past that and enjoy the book. Actually: I couldn’t get past the talking cat. (Wait: what?) With the help of a talking cat, Demerara, Oz and Lily are tasked with stopping Isadore from achieving his goal. And another brother, Isadore, is remarkably still alive, and wants the molds so he can be immortal. Except one of the brothers invented a chocolate for immortality. The chocolate (and candy) was infused with magic in order to help and entertain people (think Weasly’s Wizarding Wheezes). ![]() ![]() Their family up and moves there, where the kids find out that the shop, run by their great-great-uncles, was a place for magic. Oz and Lily are twins - Oz is the genius, Lily has dyslexia - whose family has inherited a run-down, old chocolate shop in London. And the cover and title promised good things, as well. I really liked Beswitched last fall, and so when I found out that Kate Saunders had a new one, I was quite interested. Support your local independent bookstore: buy it there! ![]() First sentence: “‘We’ll probably sell the place,’ Dad said, from the driver’s seat.” ![]()
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