And her counterpart, the story’s antagonist Lily, also falls neatly into a type of her own, hers being the too-good-to-be-true outsider that, by story’s end, will be revealed to be an impostor of some sort.Īnyone, except maybe the middle-grade audience Littlewood wrote Bliss for, can see how things will play out when Rose’s parents, who’d never let Rose make any magic recipes, leave and give her the key to the place their special cookbook is hidden. Rose, our main character, is pretty typical in her all-consuming desire to feel special and pretty. All the different magical recipes were so cute and clever I was sad there had to be a story to accompany them.Įspecially one that breaks so little new ground when you remove said recipes from the equation. Similar to Rose, I was in awe when I read about her mother folding lightning into one of her baked goods, all in order to save a young boy who’d been struck by lightning. In that case, it was the castle itself in this case, it’s the magical recipes Rosemary Bliss’s parents make for the townspeople. could they?Kathryn Littlewood?s culinary caper blends rich emotional flavor with truly magical wit, yielding one heaping portion of hilarious family adventure.Not unlike with Tuesdays at the Castle, there was a kernel of something special here. Soon boring, non-magical recipes feel like life before Aunt Lily?a lot less fun.So Rose and her siblings experiment with just a couple of recipes from the forbidden Cookery Booke.A few Love Muffins and a few dozen Cookies of Truth couldn?t cause too much trouble. ?Aunt? Lily rides a motorcycle, wears purple sequins, and whips up exotic (but delicious) dishes for dinner. Rose and her siblings are supposed to keep the Cookery Booke under lock and whisk-shaped key while their parents are out of town, but then a mysterious stranger shows up.
It?s the Bliss Cookery Booke?an ancient, leather-bound volume of enchanted recipes like Stone Sleep Snickerdoodles and Singing Gingersnaps. Read Or Download Bliss (The Bliss Bakery, #1) By Kathryn Littlewood Full Pages.
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