Magic Can Be Murder

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Summary: Magic Can Be Murder review
Review: Hi, I am here to tell you about the book Magic Can Be Murder. The author of this book is Vivian Vande Velde. There are 197 pages in this book. The author also wrote newbery winning story, Never Trust A Dead Man.Ther genre of this book is fantasybecause i contains a lot of magic in this book.
The setting of this book is about our time. The story is about a daugter and a mother. It starts at this one place where they are slaves for this one man to get food. The man thinks she is nice and they run away casting magic at them with magic...
Will they stay or will they get out?
The things that I liked about this book, are that it is a suspense book,adventure, and you try to find out what the book means.
I would reccomend this book to teen kids that a school might want to read together with a group. Again please read Magic Can Be Murder. THE END

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Summary: Great Book
Review: It may look like a child's book but it's for all ages. I couldn't put it down. A best buy. I liked it so much im buying another copy.

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Summary: A Book that has Almost Everything
Review: Magic Can Be Murder is a great book by a very witty author, Vivian Vande Velde, (try saying that five times fast).

The book is about Nola and her mother, who both are witches. After fleeing from their horrible employer they end up in a small town where they get a job as maids. One night Nola enchants a bucket of water and drops a human hair into the water (a way of seeing the person who the hair belongs to). As soon as the image appears in the bucket Nola regrets enchanting the bucket because she sees her employers son spying on Brinna, another servant. Then a murder takes place!

I enjoyed this book simply because it kept you at the edge of your seat and was dotted with humor (such as the fact that Nola's mother had a spirit of a baby in her pinky and that Nola's mother is very strange and eccentric. I strongly reccomend that you read this book.

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Summary: Marissa's Magic Can Be Murder Review
Review: Marissa Snow

Magic Can Be Murder
By: Vivian Vane Velde
An interesting fact about Magic can be Murder is that Nola, the main character, is a witch who can spy on people by plucking a hair from that person, getting a bucket of water, saying an incantation, and dropping the hair into the bucket.

I found the book because I love stories about magic and stuff like that. I would totally recommend the story. This story is suspenseful, enchanting, and hard to put down. The kind of person who would like this story would be any age person really and someone who LOVES magic related stories. This story was a page-turner because when you start to read it you like get sucked into the story you become Nola or you become Innis. It was not at all hard to concentrate on this book because if you really like magic books then you can't really get distracted while you read it. I connected the most with Nola's mother because she is some-what crazy and spontaneous just like me. I loved this genre because it is (like I said before) a really exciting type of story. I was not too fond of the writing style because I like the stories that are like diary format. YES, there were suprises in the story like when Kirwyn killed Innis I thought that he was going to kill Brinna or Alan but not his own father! No, almost every chapter ended with a cliff-hanger but not all of them. Like it when Kirwyn killed Innis the author tells you what Nola does and when she does it so it doesn't leave you hanging. This story was not the least bit boring to me at all. I loved the genre, the theme, the title pretty much everything except the style of the writing. Yes, my mind wandered when reading but it was always things like about the story that made my mind wander. The Plot was so unbelievable like shocking because I didn't think Nola's mother was going to make it to the end of the story. I think that everyone really would enjoy reading it.

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Summary: Marissa's Magic Can Be Murder Review
Review: Marissa Snow

Magic Can Be Murder
By: Vivian Vane Velde
An interesting fact about Magic can be Murder is that Nola, the main character, is a witch who can spy on people by plucking a hair from that person, getting a bucket of water, saying an incantation, and dropping the hair into the bucket.

I found the book because I love stories about magic and stuff like that. I would totally recommend the story. This story is suspenseful, enchanting, and hard to put down. The kind of person who would like this story would be any age person really and someone who LOVES magic related stories. This story was a page-turner because when you start to read it you like get sucked into the story you become Nola or you become Innis. It was not at all hard to concentrate on this book because if you really like magic books then you can't really get distracted while you read it. I connected the most with Nola's mother because she is some-what crazy and spontaneous just like me. I loved this genre because it is (like I said before) a really exciting type of story. I was not too fond of the writing style because I like the stories that are like diary format. YES, there were suprises in the story like when Kirwyn killed Innis I thought that he was going to kill Brinna or Alan but not his own father! No, almost every chapter ended with a cliff-hanger but not all of them. Like it when Kirwyn killed Innis the author tells you what Nola does and when she does it so it doesn't leave you hanging. This story was not the least bit boring to me at all. I loved the genre, the theme, the title pretty much everything except the style of the writing. Yes, my mind wandered when reading but it was always things like about the story that made my mind wander. The Plot was so unbelievable like shocking because I didn't think Nola's mother was going to make it to the end of the story. I think that everyone really would enjoy reading it.

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Summary: Marissa's Magic Can Be Murder Review
Review: Marissa Snow

Magic Can Be Murder
By: Vivian Vane Velde
An interesting fact about Magic can be Murder is that Nola, the main character, is a witch who can spy on people by plucking a hair from that person, getting a bucket of water, saying an incantation, and dropping the hair into the bucket.

I found the book because I love stories about magic and stuff like that. I would totally recommend the story. This story is suspenseful, enchanting, and hard to put down. The kind of person who would like this story would be any age person really and someone who LOVES magic related stories. This story was a page-turner because when you start to read it you like get sucked into the story you become Nola or you become Innis. It was not at all hard to concentrate on this book because if you really like magic books then you can't really get distracted while you read it. I connected the most with Nola's mother because she is some-what crazy and spontaneous just like me. I loved this genre because it is (like I said before) a really exciting type of story. I was not too fond of the writing style because I like the stories that are like diary format. YES, there were suprises in the story like when Kirwyn killed Innis I thought that he was going to kill Brinna or Alan but not his own father! No, almost every chapter ended with a cliff-hanger but not all of them. Like it when Kirwyn killed Innis the author tells you what Nola does and when she does it so it doesn't leave you hanging. This story was not the least bit boring to me at all. I loved the genre, the theme, the title pretty much everything except the style of the writing. Yes, my mind wandered when reading but it was always things like about the story that made my mind wander. The Plot was so unbelievable like shocking because I didn't think Nola's mother was going to make it to the end of the story. I think that everyone really would enjoy reading it.

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Summary: An extremely enjoyable fantasy/mystery.
Review: The setting of this book is unspecified, but it appears to be a historical one, most likely the countryside of fuedal Europe based on the information provided. Since she was five, Nola and her widowed mother have had to keep moving from town to town because they are witches. Now she is seventeen, and wishes she could just stay in one place. But things become even more complicated for Nola when she magically witnesses a murder. When she uses magic to pose as a servant in the murdered man's household and see if she was suspected, she learns she wasn't. However, in her disguise she is a suspect! Now she is caught up in the investigation, and there will be danger, adventure, and romance along the way for her until the thrilling conclusion. An unusual and highly entertaining story that combines fantasy and mystery. I read the book all in one sitting and couldn't put it down.

Rating:
Summary: An extremely enjoyable fantasy/mystery.
Review: The setting of this book is unspecified, but it appears to be a historical one, most likely the countryside of fuedal Europe based on the information provided. Since she was five, Nola and her widowed mother have had to keep moving from town to town because they are witches. Now she is seventeen, and wishes she could just stay in one place. But things become even more complicated for Nola when she magically witnesses a murder. When she uses magic to pose as a servant in the murdered man's household and see if she was suspected, she learns she wasn't. However, in her disguise she is a suspect! Now she is caught up in the investigation, and there will be danger, adventure, and romance along the way for her until the thrilling conclusion. An unusual and highly entertaining story that combines fantasy and mystery. I read the book all in one sitting and couldn't put it down.

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Summary: Happily Ever After?
Review: While Magic Can be Murder was a captivating story there was definatly something lacking in it. It was "short and sweet." It was possible to see the outcome of the stroy before you were even half way through the book. I was also disappointed in the fact that the romance part of the book was so story bookish. They meet, fall in love, and well, although the book doesn't say it, its implied that they "live happily ever after." This is not the way real people act, which was odd, because all through the story Velde seemed to be trying to make her characters seem real and react like real people (excluding the magic parts). So although it was a very intersting story, it had its down points.