Roxy & Jones by Angela Woolfe

Roxy isn't really enjoying living with her stepsister, but it's her only choice. She doesn't want to make things difficult for her, but she's somehow got caught up in Jones' mission to maybe save the world, possibly. Well, the country. Definitely at least the city.

I want to note before I start, the summary below isn't completely accurate. I took out a piece that's supposed to be a surprise in the story, and another part of it doesn't actually come up in the story at all. But maybe it will in future installments.

Now that that's out of the way, look at that gorgeous cover! So colourful and lovely.

This is a fabulous, fun, magical story. Set in a world where magic was real until very recently, Roxy knows nothing about it and Jones knows much less than she thinks she does. They run into various magical characters; half the fun is trying to guess who these characters were from which fairy tale. I definitely missed a couple, but they're obvious in hindsight.

Roxy and Jones (and third partner who shows up later) are fantastic characters. The writing style is great and there's plenty of room for lots more stories set in this world. I'm looking forward to reading them.

A hilarious modern fairy-tale mash-up set in a world in which witches are real, magic is real and fairy tales are not only real ... but recent history.

Once Upon a Modern Time, in the city of Rexopolis, in the Kingdom of Illustria, lived twelve-year-old Roxy Humperdinck. Enter Cinderella ("Call me Jones") Jones, who most definitely does NOT want to marry ghastly Prince Charming and is far too busy hunting for lost relics of the Cursed Kingdom. But now she needs Roxy's help. And Roxy's about to discover the truth about her world and her family: that witches are real, magic is real and fairy tales are not only real ... but recent history.