![]() And her counterpart, the story’s antagonist Lily, also falls neatly into a type of her own, hers being the too-good-to-be-true outsider that, by story’s end, will be revealed to be an impostor of some sort.Īnyone, except maybe the middle-grade audience Littlewood wrote Bliss for, can see how things will play out when Rose’s parents, who’d never let Rose make any magic recipes, leave and give her the key to the place their special cookbook is hidden. Rose, our main character, is pretty typical in her all-consuming desire to feel special and pretty. ![]() All the different magical recipes were so cute and clever I was sad there had to be a story to accompany them.Įspecially one that breaks so little new ground when you remove said recipes from the equation. ![]() Similar to Rose, I was in awe when I read about her mother folding lightning into one of her baked goods, all in order to save a young boy who’d been struck by lightning. In that case, it was the castle itself in this case, it’s the magical recipes Rosemary Bliss’s parents make for the townspeople. Not unlike with Tuesdays at the Castle, there was a kernel of something special here. ![]()
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