The Between Worlds B&B by Amy Mae Baxter
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I grabbed this book from Forbidden Planet on a whim. The cover looked cute and it felt like a light fun read. I am glad I grabbed it.
I wasn’t sure if it was going to be like The Innkeeper Chronicles by Ilona Andrews (but it made me think of it, partly why i ended up going for it, because I enjoyed those), or more like Agnes Aubert’s Mystical Cat Shelter style. I think it actually sits neatly between both, so if either is your kind of book, then please, do yourself a favour and go grab a copy of this book.
Margo is bored and all she really has going for her is that she loves swimming, but she’s not doing too well at school and she doesn’t really have many friends. So when she accidentally gets locked out of her house overnight and stumbles upon a cute little B&B that costs exactly the amount of money she has to spend, she decides to have a tiny adventure.
What she does not expect is that the receptionist of the B&B will be attractive and friendly to her. Or that when someone signs in as a demon in the guest book, that they mean it, right? Demons? Nope, that’s magic and that’s just not real. But what Margo doesn’t know is that she is a guest at The Between-Worlds B&B, a bed and breakfast that has some interesting terms and conditions and that only appears to certain people, but all of them magical. So why is Margo a guest when she is most definitely human?
Well… Margo has to find out if she is genuinely human or is there maybe a tiny bit of magic in hr? And if she has magic, what kind of magic does she have? But as she tries some schemes to find out, she also interacts more on more with the other guests of the inn, all of them with their own problems and conundrums to figure out (but all of them very much magical creatures, so at least knowing if they have magic or not is not a problem they have).
And of course, there is also the fact that the receptionist is cute and they seem to hit it off, but is this doomed from the start since he’s working for the B&B and she will at some point finish her stay?
This was adorable to read. A cosy hug and a cute story to read, and I just enjoyed it very much. The chapters each have a title, which was perfectly fitting, and a little thing I like to see in books (it doesn’tfit all books but here it was just adorable and added to the whimsy of it).
So if you’re looking for a cosy magical adventure about identity, magic and a B&B with a chaos personality trying to help, this is the book for you.