Jury is out for me on this one. As a cozy, I enjoyed the characters and storyline - thumbs up. However, when the main character found herself in distress, she had all of the tools (magical) to free herself and escape and another character in the book had to remind her of that. I like my heroines kick butt so that part was a thumbs down for me. That being said, I liked it enough that I will give book 2 a chance.