Customer Reviews

Country Living Happy Halloween!: Bewitching Parties and Recipes, Enchanting Pumpkins and Decorations, Plus Lots of Other Spine-Tingling Ideas

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I have the other two halloween books from Country Living and when the description for this new book stated that this book contained the best ideas from the previous books and some new ideas, I was hoping for some more ideas from the magazine and web site, but no, I found only a few new ideas. So if you have the previous books too, I do not suggest you purchase this one...
BUT if you do not have the previous books, then I would describe this book as having a lot of fun "family-oriented" ideas for a calm, clean, crafty autumnal holiday!

This is a compilation of ideas that Martha Stewart and Matthew Mead and every other specialty publication already did over the years. To add to the insult, it has a terrible cover as the black cat is actually a cut out which makes it flimsy and easily rips.

Not worth the money.

I'm not familiar with the other Country Living Halloween books, but our family was really impressed with this one. We loved the unique decorating & party ideas. The tasty recipes are very creative! It also gives you ideas for parties, including recipes for adults and gross ones for the kids. We will definitely use this book again next year!

I ordered this book from a book club and it was described as new ideas from Country Living! However, it is a compilation of past Country Living magazines and their other book. So for me it was nothing new and rather disappointing. If your not familiar with the other book they did, then you will probably be happy. If I had to choose though, I would pick their first book over this one. It's prettier to look at.

I am a rather crafty person and I really liked this book for a couple of reasons. One is that it gives some easy costume templates in the back and the second is for the recipes. Sure there may be a few recycled ideas in here from previous books but if you want to add a Halloween book to your library for reference this is a good one. I especially liked the autumn cake in the book, with yellow cake mix. The honey frosting was also pretty great!

I was very disappointed in this book, no new ideas and the ideas that were presented were rehashed from previous issues. The only good thing that I can say is that the photography is beautiful. If you have young children and want to celebrate Halloween in a very cutesy and juvenile fashion and do not have any other Halloween books, then by all means, buy this book. Otherwise, I would reconsider my purchase of this book.