The Last Of The Moon Girls by Barbara Davis

I had a fear early on that this was going to play like a made-for-TV movie, which isn’t really my thing, so it did take a couple chapters to feel invested. Only, someone doesn’t want her digging into the past and is finding increasingly threatening ways to try to stop her. Lizzy, who left in shame after these events, now returns eight years later, and despite initial reticence, is inspired by her grandmother’s Book of Remembrances to clear Althea’s good name before she sells the Moon Girl Farm, walks away from their family legacy, and returns to her independent life in NYC. A past tragic event involving two teenage sisters found in a pond on the property has cast a pall over Althea and all the Moon women, with townsfolk presuming Althea’s guilt and strongly intimating that all the Moon women are witches, despite the fact that they’ve always used their farm and talents to bless their neighbors.

This charming story centers around Elzibeth ‘Lizzy’ Moon, a successful creative director and perfumer in NYC who returns to her New England hometown of Salem Creek and her grandmother Althea’s Moon Girl Farm after her death. While I wasn’t a fan of the mystery and romance, I appreciated Lizzy’s narrative/self discovery in general. So it just came out predictable and formulaic. It appeared that this book wanted to be a lot of things, and each of them hindered the other to fully develop. The most interesting part was the magic or gifts that the Moon’s bloodline carry as well as grandma Althea’s Book of Remembrances. He was sweet and protective but also lowkey kinda creepy. However, it’s honestly debatable because I think he mistook obsession for love. I liked the fact that the guy’s been pining for the girl. The love story was cute but also extremely clichéd.

It’s like she was doing it out of regret, which maybe is not the worst motivation. It seemed ingenuine that Lizzy suddenly wanted to solve the murder and clear up her grandma’s name AFTER she died when all these years she just. The mystery was pretty standard which was disappointing because I was looking forward to it.

The Last Of The Moon Girls by Barbara Davis