Review: The Trouble With Trying to Bag a Blood Witch (Murder Sprees and Mute Decrees Book 5) by Jennifer Cody

Rating: 5🌈

Murder Sprees and Mute Decrees is one of my favorite unhinged series. Jennifer Cody’s fabulously eccentric characters and wildly imaginative 

storylines that swing from the humorous to the horrifying to the absurd and adventurous and back are always captivating.  

The Trouble With Trying to Bag a Blood Witch, the fifth book in the series, is another resounding hit.  With one twist after another popping up in the story, the reader is still firmly centered on the growing relationship between otherworldly finder Darcy Hellspinner and very chill human Elijah Penn as they face numerous challenges and overcome attacks from villains unknown. 

It’s a wildly chaotic journey that’s well constructed, layered with strange creatures and beings, and goes to unexpected places that even our main characters didn’t anticipate.

I believe that there is one more book in the series. There’s a wedding that still needs to happen for Arlington Fox and Romily, our original couple. That should be utter joy and a great universal celebration of the most unhinged storylines and these fabulous zany characters.  I can’t wait.

I highly recommend this series and story. Read these in order, it does help. Great covers.

Cover Design by Tammy, Aspen Tree E.A.S.

Murder Sprees and Mute Decrees :

• The Trouble with Trying to Date a Murderer #1
• The Trouble With Trying to Save an Assassin #2
• The Trouble with Trying to Love a Hellion #3
• The Trouble With Trying to Hook a Harbinger #4
• The Trouble With Trying to Bag a Blood Witch #5

• The Adventure of Sterling Jones: A Murder Sprees and Mute Decrees Sidequest

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Blurb

Elijah:

Imagine coming home from an extended stay in a foreign country to find a letter from a house sitter you didn’t hire warning you to get a protection order against your ex and informing you that you’re a terrible plant dad.

I mean, I am a terrible plant dad, and I probably should get a protection order against Stalker Steve, but that letter isn’t the weirdest thing to happen to me today. I think the teleporting alien baby who’s decided to make me their perch probably takes the prize for Weirdest Thing in Elijah Penn’s Life.

Fortunately, the baby’s parents hired a bounty hunter to bring me and my new buddy back. Unfortunately, Darcy Hellspinner might be the sexiest man I’ve ever met in real life, and if it isn’t clear from the fact I call my ex Stalker Steve, I have terrible taste in men. I have the sneaking suspicion that Darcy’s going to be my next big mistake, but that’s ok—I’m probably going to be his too.

The Trouble With Trying to Bag a Blood Witch is a 87k paranormal romance with a little bit of sci-fi mixed in, two MCs who think this is just an extended hook up, and a baby alien with impeccable timing. The Foxily family is growing again. It’s Darcy’s turn to bring in a mate, but he’s lodging an official complaint because this isn’t what he signed up for.

• Publication date: December 13, 2024
• Language: English
• Print length: 329 pages