Falling into Magic (Destiny Falls Mystery & Magic #1)
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When Hayden was a child, she lost her cat. Adults told her the cat ran away, but she knew the truth....
Paranormal Mystery
Weaver by Tish Thawer
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He walked out of my dream, identifying himself only as the Weaver. In a black cloak, with eyes like...
Adult Paranormal Romance
A Curse of Mayhem (Alyssa McCarthy's Magical Missions #2)
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History, like magic, has a habit of repeating itself It’s been six months since...
Middle Grade Ages 8-12 Fanasty
The Ghost Camper's Tall Tales (Destiny Falls Mystery & Magic #3)
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A magic mirror. An enchanted world. A mysterious story-telling ghost. A hilarious, perpetually...
Paranormal Mystery
Leanne Crabtree (480 KP) rated Hidden Power (Academy of Elemental Magic, #1) in Books
Jan 6, 2021
This starts with Avaline doing her job as a lifeguard at the lake when she is attacked with magic by two assailants who know her name. She wakes up a month later to learn she, too, has magic. A dangerous magic. She has two choices and decides to stay at the school to learn how to control her vox magic.
I can't decide whether I liked this or not.
Everything was happening so quickly in it. She meets the guys, she lusts after them, she sleeps with one of them very quickly. She gets to lessons and on her second try ever she manages to make fire. I just expected things to take time...for her to initially struggle considering she didn't even know she had magic until a day or two ago.
I struggled to connect with the characters and wasn't really convinced by their relationships. I didn't feel any real sort of chemistry going on between any of them. Once again, I feel like this bit was rushed. I get lust but... I wasn't a fan of how the author wrote the romance parts.
This story had a lot of promise but we don't really learn much of anything. Ava learns about magic in lessons but we don't get to hear it. To me it feels like a bit of paper that's been scrunched into a ball and then flattened causing creases and ripples that means some details in the story have been glossed over. It could do with expanding a little with more details on certain aspects.
At this point I don't believe I'll be reading more of this series.
The Disappearance of Emily (Destiny Falls Mystery & Magic #2)
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Hayden fell through a mirror and was thrust into an alternate, magical place. Destiny Falls is home...
Paranormal Mystery
Trinity and Jeff (Wild Witches of Beaver Bay #3)
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Denying her love for her childhood friend, Jeff, Trinity visits her family’s ancestral land,...
Paranormal Erotic Romance
Merissa (11612 KP) rated Witchy, Witchy (Spellbound Trilogy, #1) in Books
Jun 8, 2023 (Updated Jun 8, 2023)
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Chocolate a la Murder
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Maddie gets rattled by a candy-coated murder. It's Wine and Chocolate Days in San Benedetto, and...
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The Pig in the Derby Hat ( Trussel and Gout: Paranormal investigations 1)
By M.A. knights
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Young Clementine Trussel didn’t go looking for the supernatural. It found her.
When a small pig wearing a derby hat falls out of her Granny’s window, Clementine is inclined to believe she’s seeing things. Only someone else saw it too, the mysterious Theophilius Gout, and he claims to be an expert in the paranormal.
There is definitely something odd about the fat, tweed-clad man, and when her Granny falls deathly ill, Clementine is uneasy entrusting her recovery to a stranger. Even one as enigmatic as Mr Gout. Besides, he seems more interested in the cakes from her parents’ bakery than anything…otherworldly.
But with her grandmother's life, and Clementine's own future, hanging in the balance, she is forced to follow him into a world of magic and monsters hidden in the shadows of her quiet hometown.
Will they be in time to save her Granny? Is Mr Gout what he claims to be? And just what exactly is the pig in the derby hat?
This was a brilliant short read I loved it. A cosy paranormal story with fun characters, and so well written. Looking forward to reading more.