Not completely bewitched by The Witches of East End

I am a big fan of the light and easy YA series Blue Bloods, so I was keen to try Melissa de la Cruz’s new paranormal series for adults, The Beauchamp Family.

With Blue Blood’s Mimi Force making a cameo appearance (which dips in to the next book in that series), book one The Witches of East End and its resident family of witches have similar roots in Melissa de la Cruz’s reworking of various Earthly mythologies that we know and love (or hate).

Cutting your losses when that Booker Prize winning novel fails to enthral, or a favoured novelist fails to deliver

Strike 1: Paul Murray's Skippy Dies

Strike 2: Téa Obreht’s The Tiger’s Wife

Strike 3: Melissa Marr’s Graveminder

Life is too short to read a book that is not enthralling you, so why waste your time on them when there are so many other books still to read that you will feel very differently about.