Advice from Baba Yaga by Brenda L Baker
Lissa Jackman still misses advice from Baba, her grandmother, ten years after her death. She's left Baba's room exactly as it was in the aging family home, Swan House. She wears Baba's clothes and is searching for any bit of advice she can from Baba to keep her life on track.
But when a dead body is found in the stables, everything changes. Lissa's struggling tea house is forced to close and there is not much left in the family vault to sell and pay for repairs to the expensive slate roof. Baba is watching over her, leaving small clues in unexpected places but it takes more than a little detective work on Lissa's part to solve the mystery.
I enjoyed Advice from Baba Yaga. Some of Baba's clues were too simple and others simply didn't make sense to the story but all added another piece to the puzzle. But to Lissa's life they made sense because she and Baba had a special connection. The tales of her childhood with Baba were both tender and entertaining. I pictured Baba Yaga as a shriveled, old Russian witch. The real Baba was anything but even though she hid a mysterious past as a spy.
This novel is full of interesting characters, love, espionage and an unsolved murder. A perfect mix for a Baba Yaga.
Lissa Jackman still misses advice from Baba, her grandmother, ten years after her death. She's left Baba's room exactly as it was in the aging family home, Swan House. She wears Baba's clothes and is searching for any bit of advice she can from Baba to keep her life on track.
But when a dead body is found in the stables, everything changes. Lissa's struggling tea house is forced to close and there is not much left in the family vault to sell and pay for repairs to the expensive slate roof. Baba is watching over her, leaving small clues in unexpected places but it takes more than a little detective work on Lissa's part to solve the mystery.
I enjoyed Advice from Baba Yaga. Some of Baba's clues were too simple and others simply didn't make sense to the story but all added another piece to the puzzle. But to Lissa's life they made sense because she and Baba had a special connection. The tales of her childhood with Baba were both tender and entertaining. I pictured Baba Yaga as a shriveled, old Russian witch. The real Baba was anything but even though she hid a mysterious past as a spy.
This novel is full of interesting characters, love, espionage and an unsolved murder. A perfect mix for a Baba Yaga.
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