This is the seventh installment of the fairytale series! I like this installment. It is very fun with a touch of paranormal. The author is very talented for she writes with vivid detail. I recommend this fans of fairytales!

I really like the Magicorum Books. They are full of,phantasy and Life. A lot of magic happens and love. Books for young adults.

Fairies And Frosting is the 7th book in the Magicorum series by Christina Bauer. Originally released in May 2021, this reformat and re-release from Monster House is 238 pages and is available in ebook and paperback formats. It's worth noting that the ebook format has a handy interactive table of contents as well as interactive links and references throughout. I've really become enamored of ebooks with interactive formats lately; it makes it so easy to find information with the search function.

This is an easy to read, very very light cozy paranormal romance novel aimed at YA readers. This installment is written in alternating first person perspective around Elle and Alec and labeled in the chapter headings which character is being written. They're full of snarky sarcastic dialogue and very much action driven. The main characters' arcs are written throughout the previous 6 books in the series, but can certainly be read out of order without any confusion.

The books are full of fractured fairy tale archetypes and riffs on classic fairy tales. The happily-ever-afters are not easy to attain and there's a metric ton of crisis and drama and tortured teenage angst and longing between the start and finish.

I'm about 4 decades outside the target audience (older teens and YA), but I am confident that they'll be gobbled up by the readers for whom they're intended. There is a little bit of rough language, but nothing which would raise an eyebrow in the average school hallway.

The dialogue is sometimes eye-wateringly sarcastic, but again, for readers in the target audience, that will likely be a plus and not at all negative. This would be a good series to binge, since book 8 has just dropped. For fans of Twilight, Marissa Meyer's Lunar Chronicles, and similar, these books will fit the bill. I found the action driven plotting superficial and not-very-engaging, but again for the target audience, it will probably be fine. (Seeing a pattern here).

Three and a half stars for this entry, rounded up for the fact that 14 year old me (and not jaded middle aged me) would have found them engaging. I would imagine it will likely be higher for the target audience.

Disclosure: I received an ARC at no cost from the author/publisher for review purposes.

This book, much like the rest of the books in this series, felt rushed. A lot happens in a pretty short amount of time. And I don't know when Elle became the main-main character when I assumed Bry would be. I like that Knox and Bry are active parts of the story again, but Bry was the more interesting character (for me) than Elle was. I like her as a character, but her personality is a little one-note sometimes. I also don't feel that Alec is as interesting as the other male characters in this series. Both these characters read younger than their 18 years, and that makes them sound immature, if they'd been 16 their nativity would have fit better.

I did like learning more about the Queen of Hearts. She was a highlight of this book for me.
It just feels like the cast of characters is getting to big, and some key characters that I liked from earlier books in the series have been pushed to the background.

I love this series. This book is exclusively from Elle and Alec’s points of view. I like this one better than the last in the series in terms of characters. Bry, Knox, Jacoby and Agatha are all heavily in the story as well as the Queen of Hearts. Although the ending did feel quite unsatisfying. The book could have been longer and I think that would have improved it. The beginning and journey of the story were good but the ending felt rushed. I still like this series but this wasn’t as good as the first few books.