My Review:Adventures in Babysitting meets Buffy the Vampire Slayer in this funny, action-packed novel about a coven of witchy babysitters who realize their calling to protect the innocent and save the world from an onslaught of evil.
Seventeen-year-old Esme Pearl has a babysitters club. She knows it's kinda lame, but what else is she supposed to do? Get a job? Gross. Besides, Esme likes babysitting, and she's good at it.
And lately Esme needs all the cash she can get, because it seems like destruction follows her wherever she goes. Let's just say she owes some people a new tree.
Enter Cassandra Heaven. She's Instagram-model hot, dresses like she found her clothes in a dumpster, and has a rebellious streak as gnarly as the cafeteria cooking. So why is Cassandra willing to do anything, even take on a potty-training two-year-old, to join Esme's babysitters club?
The answer lies in a mysterious note Cassandra's mother left her: "Find the babysitters. Love, Mom."
Turns out, Esme and Cassandra have more in common than they think, and they're about to discover what being a babysitter really means: a heroic lineage of superpowers, magic rituals, and saving the innocent from seriously terrifying evil. And all before the parents get home.
I first wanted to read this because of its comparison to Adventures in Babysitting (my favorite movie); however, after reading this, I would compare it more to a mash-up between The Babysitter's Club and The Craft. And what's not to love about either of those?! This was a fun book and a good start to a series in which a whole world has to be explained. I look forward to more in this series that will build this world even more and not revolve around a lot of mystery of powers. And, I must say: this is my favorite cover of the year (so far)!
The Babysitter's Coven comes out later this month on September 17, 2019, and you can purchase HERE. I'm excited for more books in this series!
The driver's ed room was fulling of driving simulators that had probably been considered pretty high-tech back when the school had first bought them in, oh, I don't know, 1963? In all the instructional videos, the women wore gloves and the men wore hats, and everyone stopped at all the stop signs and used their blinker when changing lanes.
Don't get me wrong, I loved the retro fashion, but I wasn't sure that the era represented a realistic depiction of driving anymore. Shouldn't this class have been getting us prepped for how to deal when a guy in a jacked-up Chevy with truck balls dangling off the back made a right turn from the left lane into a Buffalo Wild Wings parking lot and cut you off in the process?
The cover for this is so gorgeous!
ReplyDeleteKatie @ The Queen of Teen Fiction