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Ill-Fated Fortune: 09/25/24
Ill-Fated Fortune by Jennifer J. Chow and Catherine Ho (Narrator) (2024) is the start of the Magical Fortune Cookie series. Felicity Jin after years of trying has finally found her magical recipe: the fortune cookie. Now she can bake along side her mother and continue the Jin family tradition of baking joy and magic into their bakery goods. Although Felicity makes small quantities: only a dozen or so at a time, the fortune cookies end up being incredibly popular. In a pinch she writes a custom fortune for a customer, who later ends up dead in a way that's eerily similar to what she predicted. Afraid that her magic might have doomed the man, she sets out to solve his murder. Ill-Fated Fortune has a similar vibe to The Noodle Shop mystery series by Vivien Chien. Here is another mother-daughter dynamic, albeit one with a supernatural twist. The family dynamic, though, is tighter with the Jins and so far the over arching Asian community seems more supportive than the highly competitive dynamic Vivien Chien describes in her books. I prefer the recent trend of family being so integral to an amateur sleuth's success in both business and investigating. I like how Felicity has her mother and her BFF Kelvin the florist to boost her up and help out when she needs it. The second book is Star-Crossed Egg Tarts which releases January 21, 2025. Five stars Comments (0) |