We also see a fair bit of Blair, Anise’s other best friend, including a bestie shopping trip with all three of them and their bodyguard contingent. When her new death magic starts to act up, Anise seeks refuge at Gabi’s animal rescue/hospital and stays in a cottage apartment away from other lifeforms. I’m glad to see that Gabi gets more of a role in Sugar Spells than she had in Deadly Sweet where you had to skip back to remind yourself who she was a few times. To a well-paying shifty customer who actually wants to eat an entire batch on a regular basis, and she’s doing it in order to help her Shield, Wynn, pay off his indentured servitude contract. Well, Anise decides that, yes, she’s going to sell death-laced macarons to see if that will get the death magic to wear off. Because you don’t want to accidentally sell any tourists a death-laced custard bomboloni, right? We quickly learn that Anise has been banned from working at her great-aunt Agatha’s magical bakery for the time being as her magic’s gone a tad bit awry following her near-death experiences of the first book and she’s now filled with death magic. In Sugar Spells, we return to Taos, Arizona and our heroine, Anise Wise, and her compatriots weeks after the events of Deadly Sweet. But doing the right thing will mean risking death or worse-being cast out of her dream job.įor this witch, justice might not be as sweet as advertised. Wynn has saved her life so many times, she can’t leave him trapped. She plans to hole up researching magic recipes until the attention dies down, but then she discovers the horrifying terms of her bodyguard’s contract. They’ll stop at nothing for the chance to use Anise and her witchcraft to further their own plots.
As the town buzzes with news that Anise can bake deathly spells, unsavory characters start lining up for a taste. But thanks to her brush with death, the land of the living isn’t all cupcakes and marshmallows.Īnise’s magical mojo is way out of whack and her evolving powers are stirring up trouble. One of his arrows manages to kill a baddie, though it clearly falls to the ground unattached to his body.For fans of Hex Hall, The Magicians, Practical Magic, and Food Wars!Īfter her run-in with a jealous warlock, apprentice baker Anise Wise can’t wait to get back the kitchen where she belongs. In one of the sillier moments, the heavyset elderly gent who manages the dance troupe – named Slim, of course - suddenly shows up with a bow-and-arrow as the townsfolk launch an attack on El Diablo’s stronghold. It continues when director Siro Marcellini decides to speed up several of the action scenes, including those of Lola riding her horse to and from town. It starts early on when El Diablo’s men blow up two dummies tied to crosses. The film’s problems begin once the characters stop talking and the action scenes begin. She also sings three numbers - two in Italian depending on the print you’re watching – and is quite the chameleon, singing “Swing Low, Sweet Chariot” in a virginal white gown one minute, then stripping down to saloon girl garb for a saucy go-go tune the next. Lola Falana might be the only gun-toting black female lead in the history of Spaghetti Westerns.Īnd released two years before “100 Rifles” and the infamous interracial sex scene between Jim Brown and Raquel Welch, this film features Lola winning over and kissing the male lead (Peter Martell) and the villain of the piece (German Cobos). Not horrible by any stretch, but a curiosity more than anything. Peter Martell as Rod Straighter, the doctor in training, in Lola Colt (1967) The death of a young boy named Pablito finally galvanizes the townspeople, who rally around Lola as she puts on her buckskins, her white hat and straps on her own six-shooter. At first, only doctor-in-training Rod Straighter (Peter Martell) seems willing to do so. In fact, she encourages the townsfolk to stand up against him. Lola’s not quite so taken with El Diablo, whose real name is Larry Stern. One saucy song from Lola, and he’s taken with the “black tigress,” inviting her to his ranch. In order to convince the good folks of Santa Anna to cooperate, he takes hostages - men, women and children - and holds them captive on his ranch.
But first he wants to control the land around town. They find a town without a real doctor and cowering in fear under the thumb of El Diablo (German Cobos).Įl Diablo wants to bring the railroad to Santa Anna. Lola Falana is Lola Gate, member of an all-female dance troupe that stops in Santa Anna because one member has come down ill.
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