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Shady Hollow
Shady Hollow | Juneau Black
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The first book in the Shady Hollow series, in which we are introduced to the village of Shady Hollow, a place where woodland creatures live together in harmony--until a curmudgeonly toad turns up dead and the local reporter has to solve the case. Reporter Vera Vixen is a relative newcomer to Shady Hollow. The fox has a nose for news, so when she catches wind that the death might be a murder, she resolves to get to the bottom of the case, no matter where it leads. As she stirs up still waters, the fox exposes more than one mystery, and discovers that additional lives are in jeopardy. Vera finds more to this town than she ever suspected. It seems someone in the Hollow will do anything to keep her from solving the murder, and soon it will take all of Vera's cunning and quickness to crack the case. A VINTAGE CRIME/BLACK LIZARD ORIGINAL.
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BookishTrish
Shady Hollow | Juneau Black
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I liked the way the pieces of this anthropomorphic cozy mystery came together. It was also my first ever #powellsbooks purchase

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BarbaraJean
Shady Hollow | Juneau Black
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Mehso-so

Shady Hollow feels like the ultimate cozy small-town setting, with anthropomorphic animals living in near-harmony: from a coffee-shop-owning moose and bears on the police force, to a raven named Lenore who owns Nevermore Books. The twists & turns of the murder-mystery plot reveal a darker side of the idyllic town, as reporter Vera Vixen chases down leads & clues. I wanted to love this, but it fell short for me. The writing felt too simplistic ⤵️

BarbaraJean (Cont‘d) …and the book never quite seemed to hit its stride. (Also—this is super petty, but I was distracted by questions of how the various animals carried out the tasks of daily life mentioned—like Joe the moose serving coffee, for example.) But it was a fun start to a series, and I loved the setting & concept—I‘ll probably pick up the second book to see if what I felt to be shortcomings here improve as the series goes on. 4w
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julieclair
Shady Hollow | Juneau Black
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#HauntedShelf #HexesandCrows

1.Shady Hollow (tagged) and Autumn in Sycamore Park

2. Dinner in a Pumpkin, Pumpkin Bread

3. Neighborhood Oyster Roast, Litsy Spooky Season fun

4. Pumpkin Spice

Catsandbooks Dinner in a pumpkin sounds delightful! 1mo
RedxoHearts I've been wanting to read Shady Hollow as well 1mo
julieclair @RedxoHearts I was so excited to receive it from @Chrissyreadit for the #NaturalitsyMidsummerSwap and I have been making myself wait until October to read it! 🎃 1mo
julieclair @Catsandbooks It is so fun and yummy! I‘ll post the recipe at some point this month. (Or at least that‘s my plan… 😂) 1mo
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bookandbedandtea
Shady Hollow | Juneau Black
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This does a good job of setting up a series and I enjoyed meeting all the creatures in this charming town. It was a pretty good mystery too and the bad creature turned out to be someone I hadn't expected.

TheBookgeekFrau That mug is gorgeous! 😍😍 4mo
bookandbedandtea @TheBookgeekFrau Thanks! It's new and I like it a lot. 😊 4mo
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BookBr
Shady Hollow | Juneau Black
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This book is just an absolute delight. Super cozy and lovely in setting, a cracking mystery, and a wide range of characters, from keen and insightful, to friendly but mysterious, to downright ominous. The world was well-built, a cozy community that was the perfect backdrop. I feel like anyone who likes a classic mystery would enjoy this book. I‘ll definitely read more in this series.

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BookBr
Shady Hollow | Juneau Black
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Picking up what might be the coziest mystery in existence today for a lazy day at home. But who could resist? LOOK at that cover😍 The tag quote: “Watership Down meets Mickey Spillane…” I just cannot. I hope it lives up to itself!

Gleefulreader Ohhh now I want to read this!! 4mo
BookBr @Gleefulreader I‘ll lend it when I‘m done! 😊 4mo
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julieclair
Shady Hollow | Juneau Black
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Oh my goodness, @Chrissyreadit ! These #NaturalitsyMidsummerSwap surprises! Everything is perfect! Who knew there was such a thing as Bridgerton tea? Even the package is beautiful. And those note cards… each one is different! The yummy honey, gorgeous tea towel, wonderful produce bags for trips to the farmers market, and the BOOKS! How did you know I‘ve been dying to read the Sleepy Hollow series?! Many thanks, my friend. I am delighted. 💛
#NLMSS

Chrissyreadit 💛☀️💛 5mo
AllDebooks Beautiful x 5mo
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thegirlwiththelibrarybag
Shady Hollow | Juneau Black
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Zootopia meets MSW‘s Cabot Cove. Newish to town, investigative journalist, Vera Vixen is on the case when a curmudgeonly local resident is found dead - drowned, stabbed & poisoned. The usually quiet town suddenly is a hotbed of gossip, rumours & danger - with several other secrets come to light. Vera is determined to get to the bottom of it - but someone is equally determined that she doesn‘t.

This was so cozy! Enjoyed my time in Shady Hollow.

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Kshakal
Shady Hollow | Juneau Black
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Eggs Brilliant 👍🏼 6mo
Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Perfect 😍 6mo
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random_michelle
Shady Hollow | Juneau Black
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I picked this up and then promptly lost it in my TBR. A recent comment about this being a perfect cozy reminded me I already owned it and I should pick it up.

It was precisely the comfort read I needed.

Although the main characters are talking animals, it isn't a kid's story (although I just order a copy for a friend for reading aloud with her daughter). It reminds me of Looney Tunes--amusing for kids but even funnier for adults.

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she.hearts.horror
Shady Hollow | Juneau Black
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This was adorbs 🥰

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StaceGhost
Shady Hollow | Juneau Black
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What‘s better than a town full of talking animals? A foxy cub reporter who solves mysteries— her best friend Lenore is a raven with a bookstore 🐦‍⬛

Desk fairy & friend pictured for fun #midwintersolace #fridaynightshare #naturalitsy @AllDebooks @Chrissyreadit @jenniferw88 @TheBookHippie

DebinHawaii This book was so fun! 10mo
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DebinHawaii
Shady Hollow | Juneau Black
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#Rushathon #DashingDecember #SeriesLove2023

I have had this first book in the Shady Hollow cozy mystery series in my #TBR for ages now so I am glad I finally read it. I found it cute & enjoyable once you accept that the characters are animals who live a human life in a little village with a newspaper & coffee shop. Cozy & good for this time of year or as a palate cleanser between heavier reads, I‘ll give the next in the series a try. 🦊 🐻 🐦‍⬛

DieAReader 🥳🥳🥳 10mo
TheSpineView Fantastic! 10mo
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DebinHawaii
Shady Hollow | Juneau Black
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Did my last “friend thing” before Christmas with brunch earlier today, so now I‘ll settle in for the next couple of days & relax & read & just hang out for the holidays.

Listened to 90-minutes-ish of my holiday audiobook while out-&-about today & grabbed a poke bowl for Christmas Eve-Eve liner/lupper. I‘m reading a few chapters of the tagged cozy as the beauty of a Kindle is the ability to read with one hand so the other can hold chopsticks!😉

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DebinHawaii
Shady Hollow | Juneau Black
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#BookBinge

I haven‘t started the Shady Hollow cozy mystery series yet where the characters are woodland creatures & #NonHumanProtag (s) but it looks cute & the first couple of books are loaded on my Kindle. I am hoping to get to them this cozy fall season for my #SeriesLove2023 list. 🦊💚

julieclair Ooohhh… these look fun! Another cozy series to add to my list! 1y
Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Great covers 🩵 1y
Eggs So lovely 🥰 1y
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BethM @Kshakal have you heard of these? 1y
Kshakal @BethM I have not! 1y
TheSpineView Fantastic! 1y
lauraisntwilder I've been curious about these. I look forward to hearing what you think! 1y
Graciouswarriorprincess I have them on my kindle as well and need to read them! 1y
Andrew65 Hope you enjoy them 😁 1y
peanutnine I've read the first one and it was SO cozy and lovely 💖 1y
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Robotswithpersonality
Shady Hollow | Juneau Black
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Mehso-so

A good reminder that there's a limit to how cozy a book can be when it's a murder mystery. Charming cover and woodland menagerie aside, you're still steeped in gossip, prejudice, xenophobia, infidelity, blackmail, embezzlement, classism and negative depiction of the non-monogamous. The end makes some efforts to address the downsides of small-town life, and suggests there may be improvements, but I find myself less eager to continue in the series.

Robotswithpersonality 2/2 I think part of that may be the writing, it felt like it took too many cues from middle grade adventure stories or children's picture books in simplifying action and emotional depth, which felt kind of jarring given the subject matter. 1y
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Jen2
Shady Hollow | Juneau Black
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So fun!

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sarahgreatlove
Shady Hollow | Juneau Black
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A very adorable cozy mystery set in a cute woodland village full of adorable creatures. Fun, light, cute. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

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ShaunaS
Shady Hollow | Juneau Black
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It‘s really entertaining.

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Smarkies
Shady Hollow | Juneau Black
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A sweet cosy mystery based in the neighbourhood of Shady Hollows. A good palate cleanser kind of book.
#booked2023 #setinaneighbourhood #52books23 #abookwithsecrets

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peanutnine
Shady Hollow | Juneau Black
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This was a really fun cozy mystery that gave me Hoodwinked vibes. The animals of Shady Hollow are all in a tizzy when Otto the toad turns up murdered. Vera Vixen, a plucky reporter, is determined to solve the mystery, as long as the killer doesn't get to her first.
Looking forward to returning to this small forest town #SeriesLove2023 @Andrew65 @TheSpineView
#Booked2023 set in a neighborhood @BarbaraTheBibliophage @Cinfhen @alisiakae

peanutnine #2023ReadySetRead something related to water on cover / non-human MC / cozy mystery @Clwojick 2y
Clwojick Great job! I love this series. So cozy ❤️ 2y
TheSpineView Well done! Cute cover. 🤩💙📖 2y
Andrew65 These sound good. Well done 👏👏👏 2y
Smarkies I am reading the same book now for this prompt! 🙌 2y
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Erinreadsthebooks
Shady Hollow | Juneau Black
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Geez, what a cutie patootie of a book?!! It‘s exactly the way I like my cozy mysteries to be: smart, sweet, and full of woodland creatures. It‘s not The House in the Cerulean Sea level (can another book ever reach that status? prob not), but it definitely gives off the same vibes. Loved it! 🦊🐰🐍🐻🐸🐭🦫🐑🦝🦝🤗🤩

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mrsmarch
Shady Hollow | Juneau Black
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I read nine books in November and there were quite a few good books: City of Brass, House of Salt and Sorrows, Right Sort of Man, and the tagged book among them. Even the romance I read was a great one (A Night Like This)! But Shady Hollow was good enough that I went right out and bought the next book in the series, and I‘d recommend it to almost everyone I know — the other great reads of the months were more niche-y.

mrsmarch I can see where December is going already and I feel like I‘m going to be hard pressed to choose from among 3 great reads for my Book of the Year! 😅 2y
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mrsmarch
Shady Hollow | Juneau Black
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I think I made it into #AuldLangSpine! Pic of Bunny yawning for attention. “Mom, you‘re too excited! Time for bed!”

Leftcoastzen 👏🐶 2y
monalyisha You sure did! Love this pic. 😍🤩🥳 2y
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mrsmarch
Shady Hollow | Juneau Black
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November #bookspin #recap — so far. I read The Right Sort of Man (👍🏻), City of Brass, Plaid & Plagiarism, and my #LMPBC book, House of Salt and Sorrows, & DNF‘d The Once and Future Witches. Currently reading Shady Hollow.

TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!!! Looking great!!! 2y
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Clwojick
Shady Hollow | Juneau Black
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I stayed up until 5am reading, so I could get a good head start on #Scarathlon! 3 super short novellas, and a perfect fall cozy mystery. Shady Hollow was so fun, and I can‘t wait to read the next one. I‘m an hour or so into Desolation Canyon, so I‘m off to continue with more of that!

4*15(#teamreads)+ 45 (matching 3 photo prompts) +4670 (word search words) = 4775

#TeamSlaughter #ominousoctober #autumnAtoZ #scarathlondailyprompts

Traci1 Awesome! I downloaded a counter app so I could keep track of the word search words. Seems like those will be a nice point boost. 2y
Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Awesome 👏🏻 📚 2y
MartinaLove That is awesome! 2y
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Airykah13 Hey, for team genres, is it only books with slaughter that get 15pts? I was a little confused on that 2y
Clwojick @Airykah13 Our team genres are mysteries, thrillers, suspense, cozies, and true crime. 🖤 2y
Airykah13 @Clwojick duh, I should have realized that. Thank you!! 2y
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TEArificbooks
Shady Hollow | Juneau Black
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This is the most adorable cozy mystery. Set in a small town in the forest where animals have human qualities. A fox investigates the murder. Felt like Peter Rabbit with murder. Will continue reading the series.

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LaurenMicheleOnline
Shady Hollow | Juneau Black
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The Coziest of Cozy Mysteries

Rating: 4 Stars

Full Review & Content Breakdown: https://laurenmichelelifestyle.com/2022/07/04/shady-hollow-by-juneau-black-book-...

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StaceGhost
Shady Hollow | Juneau Black
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Absolutely loving this book! 📚also the map on the frontispiece is lovely 😻 I have multiple theories already about whodunit but need more evidence to confirm 👵🏻🧶update: my suspicions were correct! Can‘t wait to reserve the next installment 🦊

EvieBee I bought this a few weeks ago and now feel prompted to read it! 3y
StaceGhost @EvieBee I loved it! I sat down & read it in one sitting. It sort of drags a very little in the middle but picks up beautifully towards the end! 3y
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BookNAround
Shady Hollow | Juneau Black
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I‘m super curious about this one.

Bookzombie Me too! 3y
mrp27 Me too! 3y
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bookish_wookish
Shady Hollow | Juneau Black
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I had to put Blacktop Wasteland to the side because this one is due back to the library first! Im excited to start this one!

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booksandsympathy
Shady Hollow | Juneau Black
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A classic murder mystery with a quaint little woodland village populated entirely by animals. This was such a fun read! I enjoyed the little details and the humor. Definitely going to read the next book.

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booksandsympathy
Shady Hollow | Juneau Black
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Next up on Libby: a murder mystery with animals. I've been eagerly waiting for this book to be available.

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stevesbookstuf1
Shady Hollow | Juneau Black
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A cozy mystery with a sly twist. Imagine the quaintest small country village you can. Now, populate it with animals - a moose runs the cafe, a raven owns the bookstore, and the fox Vera Vixen is the ace reporter at the local paper. One day the town curmudgeon, an old toad, is found stabbed. A murderer is on the loose in Shady Hollow, and Vera Vixen is hot on the trail!

Lots of fun! Full review here: https://tinyurl.com/3bn5n9sp

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Robbo
Shady Hollow | Juneau Black
Mehso-so


I Had to try to like this, think it‘s aimed at the over ten year olds market, yet had adult references many would miss. It‘s inconsistent, even with a suggestion to consider the characters as adults with animal traits, they also ARE animals. Why is a fox scared of a sheep, how can a bird pick up a glass bottle, they all speak perfect English, and are all the same size. They have feathers, fur, and no opposable thumbs. The style very YA