Description:
Daisy Ellery’s pies have a secret ingredient: The magical ability to avenge women done wrong by men. But Daisy finds herself on the receiving end in Misha Popp’s cozy series debut, a sweet-as-buttercream treat for fans of Ellery Adams and Mary Maxwell.
The first time Daisy Ellery killed a man with a pie, it was an accident. Now, it’s her calling. Daisy bakes sweet vengeance into her pastries, which she and her dog Zoe deliver to the men who’ve done dirty deeds to the town’s women. But if she can’t solve the one crime that’s not of her own baking, she’ll be out of the pie pan and into the oven.
Parking her Pies Before Guys mobile bakery van outside the local diner, Daisy is informed by Frank, the crusty diner owner, that someone’s been prowling around the van—and not just to inhale the delectable aroma. Already on thin icing with Frank, she finds a letter on her door, threatening to reveal her unsavory secret sideline of pie a la murder.
Blackmail? But who whipped up this half-baked plot to cut a slice out of Daisy’s business? Purple-haired campus do-gooder Melly? Noel, the tender—if flaky—farm boy? Or one of the abusive men who prefer their pie without a deadly scoop of payback?
The upcoming statewide pie contest could be Daisy’s big chance to help wronged women everywhere…if she doesn’t meet a sticky end first. Because Daisy knows the blackmailer won’t stop until her business is in crumbles.
-sourced from Goodreads
It might not seem like it when you’re in the shit of it, when everything feels like it’s falling down around your ears, but at some point you’re going to really like where you are and you’re gonna look back at the mess and realize it was one of the stepping stones that got you here.”
― Misha Popp, Magic, Lies, and Deadly Pies
Review:
Magic, Lies, and Pies is an one of those books that have you on the side of the killer. Usually we read books that we are definitely not a fan of the murderer but to have a whole business of making pies and using it as a way to kill abusers and rapists, you can’t hate her for that. At least I can’t. I definitely wasn’t expecting this book to turn out like it did. I found myself hoping that Daisy didn’t get caught.
I find that there were so many things about this book that wasn’t for me. I am not interested in all the political propaganda when I read fiction, especially in a cozy mystery. Romance and cozy mysteries are more where I want to relax and escape the real world we live in. They are a nice way to get out of our head and when authors bring them into our reading it takes away from the escape.
“Like there are these things that matter on a large grand scale, the kind of things Melly cares about, like stopping fascism and curing climate change, and that’s obviously super important, but then there are the little individual things, like a woman who’s getting hit at home or a girl whose rapist gets a free pass for being popular. Do you go for the big sweeping save-the-world changes that will help the most people, or do you chip away at the little problems, fixing one and another and another until you have this huge snowball of good deeds built up?”
― Misha Popp, Magic, Lies, and Deadly Pies
The story was pretty interesting and I kept wanting to listen. However, this book is full of feminist, leftist ideologies that portray most men as horrible sexist women beaters and rapist. I personally have had experience with men like this. I have been in situations like the women in this story however I do not think most men are like that. It is sad when women think that men are all horrible pigs.
The fact that one of her rules is that she will never use this on a woman like men are the only ones in relationships that can be abusive is ridiculous. I have know a few men who would get beat on by their woman. They weren’t weak or anything, they just believed that they weren’t supposed to hit women so they never retaliated. That is what we teach our boys. They aren’t allowed to hit females. Then you end up with men in abusive relationships. Would Daisy think that was ok? Would she take on a case to kill a woman that was abusive? What is the woman was not only abusive to the her husband but also to the children.
Now I haven’t read the remaining books in this series and I likely won’t so I don’t know if that is something that she later considers. I do hope that is something that is changed in this series though.
I listened to the audio version of this book and really enjoyed the narrator. It was originally a NetGalley arc that I ended up taking forever to get to.
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