Sunday, November 3, 2024

[ARC REVIEW] Bluebell and the Silver Palace by P.J. Reed


 




Title:  Bluebell and the Silver Palace

Author:  P.J. Reed

Artist: Emma Gribble

Genre: Humor / Fantasy / Adventure / Mystery

Year Published: 2021

Number of Pages: 117 
pages

Date Read: 
11/3/2024

Publisher:   Lost Tower Publications

Source:   eARC (Author)

Content Rating:  Ages 5+ (No Objectionable Content)

Buy on:  Amazon // Goodreads




I would like to thank the author P.J. Reed for providing me a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.


So, after I read the first book in the “Bluebell” book series, I just had to read more books from this series and lo and behold, I was given a copy of the sequel to the first “Bluebell” book, “Bluebell and the Silver Palace” and man, was it even more exciting than the first book!


The story starts off with Bluebell, the newly appointed Wish Fairy, buying some honey from the bumblebees that make the honey, in order to make some delicious honey cakes.  But unfortunately, Bluebell ends up being arrested by Queen Caraway and it turns out that the Queen’s honey has been stolen.  So, Queen Caraway wishes for Bluebell to find out who stole her honey.

Can Bluebell solve this mystery?

Find out in this book!


So, after reading the first book in this series, I was dying to read more adventures from Bluebell the Wish Fairy and man, this sequel does not disappoint me!  P.J. Reed did a fantastic job at writing this story as the tone of this story shifts to a mystery genre, rather than be a straight up adventure genre like in the first book.  I really loved this change in genre for the second book because I always loved reading mystery books and this book does a great job at setting up the mystery of who stolen the honey from the Queen and how Bluebell and her friends try to solve the case.  I also loved the relationship that Bluebell has with both Tobin the Gnome and newcomer, Billy the bee as they both provided some interesting dynamics with Bluebell.  Tobin is as usual, usually stern with Bluebell, while Billy is much more playful towards Bluebell. Emma Gribble’s artwork is great to look at as they are simplistic yet beautiful and they greatly complement the cute and mysterious tone of this book.


Overall, “Bluebell and the Silver Palace” is a fantastic sequel to the first “Bluebell” book and if you love reading about mysteries and delicious food, then this book is definitely worth checking out!  I would recommend this book to children ages five and up since there is nothing really inappropriate in this book.


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