Babs & Aggie: the Good, the Bad and the Vegan is a very funny shopfront cozy mystery (and series starter) by Hazel Hitchins. Released 28th Feb 2025 by Troubadour, it's 258 pages and is available in paperback and ebook formats. It's worth noting that the ebook format has a handy interactive table of contents.
Immortal witches of legend, Babs and Aggie have at turns been friends, frenemies, nemeses, or all three at once. Babs (and her chicken clawed house/familiar) show up to help Aggie find her groove. Aggie just wants to keep her head down and run a village cafe and keep a low profile, which is difficult with an animated hut squatting in one's garden.
The humor is warm, quite wabbly/wobbly, and a lot of *fun*; there are flashes of wit similar to Tom Holt (although it's absolutely not derivative, there's just something about mythological people in everyday mundane situations and the comedy that ensues that has a similar vibe). Although it is very cozy and adorable, there are some content issues for death of a pet (off-page, prior to the start of the story), domestic abuse and assault.
Four and a half stars. This would be an excellent choice for public library acquisition, for fans of cozy fantasy, or for a buddy read. There's currently no publishing information available for book 2 so it could be a while.
Disclosure: I received an ARC at no cost from the author/publisher for review purposes.
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