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Mark @ Carstairs Considers (2593 KP) rated Flower Power Trip in Books

Dec 4, 2024  
Flower Power Trip
Flower Power Trip
James J. Cudney | 2019 | Mystery
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8.0 (1 Ratings)
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Murder at the Masquerade Ball
It’s the start of summer at Braxton, but Kellan Ayrwick is finding the campus is anything but calm. Not only is he personally teaching a course over the summer, but the Mendel Flower Show has decided to use the campus for their presentation this year. The season is kicking off with a masquerade ball to raise money for a needed library renovation. However, the night ends in tragedy when Kellan finds a dead body in a staff only section of the library. With a friend’s sister the prime suspect, can Kellan figure out what is going on?

Those who are familiar with the series will know that there is a lot going on in these books, and this one is no exception. Yes, we do get some updates to the ongoing soap operaish storylines, including another cliffhanger. The focus is on the new mystery here, however, and it does a good job of keeping us guessing with plenty of twists and red herrings. The ultimate solution was satisfying. My biggest gripe is that Kellan seems to have some contentious relationships with the other series regulars. I hope we are growing beyond some of those issues soon because I read cozies for the groups of characters I want to revisit. Still, I enjoyed this book overall. I definitely recommend you read these books in order because of the ongoing saga. I’m hoping I can make it to the next one soon.
  
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Morgan Sheppard (1033 KP) created a post

Jun 2, 2026  
Long before the solstice was a date on a screen, the people of Wales knew midsummer by feel, by the particular quality of the evening light, by the way the air carried the smell of meadowsweet and warm stone, by a sense that something in the land had shifted and was holding its breath.

Bonfires were kindled on hilltops in the days around the solstice, not out of superstition but out of something more like gratitude, a way of meeting the light at its fullest and sending it onward. Sacred wells were visited in the early morning hours, the water believed to carry unusual potency during the long midsummer days, capable of healing and of revealing what was ordinarily hidden. Herbs gathered in this season — vervain, St John's wort, elder flower — were thought to hold more virtue than at any other time of year.

There was also a watchfulness to these traditions, a sense that the line between this world and the world beneath or beyond it was thinner at midsummer than at almost any other point in the year. Not the dramatic thinning of winter, cold and strange, but something gentler and more dangerous, a warm, golden permeability, the kind that could lead a person astray without them ever realising they had wandered.

Wales always knew that summer has its own magic, and that it does not announce itself loudly.

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Photo of Mwnt, Ceredigion, Mid Wales