Rating: 3🌈
This group of 3 short stories is a bit of a mixed bag to be honest. Centered around the teenage characters from AJ Sherwood’s Jon’s Mysteries and Mack’s Marvelous Manifestations series they range from problematic to interesting.
Spoilers:
I didn’t expect this, especially considering such cool characters to work with.
AITA for Telling My Friend She’s Being Cheated On? This is the story I have major concerns about. Abby, and Skylar are both high school students with powerful magical abilities. One being able to read people. See relationships, health issues. In this case it’s that a friend is being cheated on. Fine. But it’s not the issue.
The boy is not well liked. Nor is the girl who he’s having the other relationship with. Again not the problem. Although not handled well.
The issue? Abby reads that the other girl is pregnant, a fact she doesn’t realize herself. Nor does he.
All extremely serious, private sensitive information. Want to guess how it’s going to be handled? Yep announced to those involved by Abby at school. With no adults present until much later.
Nowhere is there any discussion on ethics or ramifications of this matter. We all know how deadly high school is. None of this matters. Abby has outed the cheaters.
This was almost a DNF moment.
The rest was just ok. Honestly after that. I was done.
The second story saw Gwyn settling in and the third was about ghostly call that went sideways.
But that first? Nope. Poorly executed and not well executed.
Where’s the ethics here?
No recommendations.
Cover by Katie Griffin
Buy link
Amazon.comhttps://www.amazon.comAbby, Skylar, and Gwyn’s Awesome Apprenticeship Adventures …
Blurb
Have a Mack’s Horribly Hellacious Ghost Town hangover and need more? Here are three new short stories featuring the apprentices from Jon’s Mysteries and Mack’s Marvelous Manifestations! Each story is about a first of some kind, learning moments for the girls.
Note: Gwyn was introduced in Mack’s Horribly Hellacious Ghost Town. It is recommended you read that book first, but it’s not necessary.
AITA for Telling My Friend She’s Being Cheated On?
One of Jon’s first lessons to me had been to mind my own business. He’d stressed to me that life would be better for me all around if I kept everything to myself unless someone asked for information. Or unless the situation called for me to reveal that secret.
I, uh, had no idea which heading this fell under.
All in the Family
I think anyone in my shoes would be nervous. I was meeting people who would be in my life for years to come. People who didn’t have to like me. Brandon and Mack assured me it’d be fine, that everyone in their family was easygoing and I’d become part of the family, but still. My own parents didn’t like me. How could I expect anyone else to?
First Time for Everything
Lazy Saturday morning with nothing to do? Check.
Unexpected ghosts needing passing? Check.
Being attacked by a ghost without Mack around to help? Uh…help?!
Tags:
apprentices, short stories, side stories, BAMF girls, milestones, ghosts, energy reading, AITA, found family, chosen family, F/F romance, psychics, bonds, Gwyn does her first exorcism, Eli
After years of hearing characters chatting away in her head, CJane Elliott finally decided to put them on paper and hasn’t looked back since. A psychotherapist by training, CJane is an award-winning author whose sexy, passionate stories explore the human psyche. CJane has traveled all over North America for work and her characters are travelers, too, traveling down into their own depths to find what they need to get to the happy ending.
