In this next installment in the "Vampire Knitting Club" series, Lucy's parents unexpectedly show up, fresh from an archeological dig. Her mother is acting strange when she hands Lucy a mirror that looks to be from ancient Egypt. The mirror turns out to be magic, and when Lucy picks it up it unleashes a series of events that put Lucy and the rest of the magical world at great peril. Lucy knows that she is out of her depth, and this time her vampire friends are not much help. She turns to a powerful witch for advice, but the that advice comes at a terrible cost. Now she has both the enchanted mirror and the consequences of the witch's help to deal with, all while trying to entertain her parents who think she should give up the knitting shop and settle down with a certain handsome police officer. What is a girl to do?
This book departs from the pattern in the first two in the series, in that it doesn't start with a murder. Warren introduces a lot of new mystical elements that pushes the book from the genre of magical realism into full-out fantasy. Some reviewers on Goodreads were put off by the shift, but I didn't mind. It is all so silly anyway, why not jump into the magical deep end? The series is starting to feel like episodes from one of the after school sit-coms from my childhood, like "I Dream of Genie" or "Bewitched". It is all in good fun and was never intended to be serious. I will probably read more in the series when the mood for something ultralight hits me. (2018, 236 p)
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