Beguiled by Darynda Jones

 

3.5 Star

Defiance is trying to figure out what it means to be a witch while fending off advances from one neighbor and another trying to sell her house out from under her. She decides she needs to figure out who killed her grandma, teach her BFF how to use her magic, and figure out her relationship with the shapeshifter in the basement.

This series started off so well, but it is very frustrating that the characters act like teenagers. They also seem too miraculously find some new magic to solve the problem in this book. Defiance also frustrated me so much. She had too many too stupid to live moments. I am going to give the series one more chance before I quit.

Audio: 5 star I loved Traci Odom narrating this book. She did a good job giving each character their own voice.

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Bewitched by Darynda Jones

 

3.5 Star

Defiance has woken from a six-month coma after overusing her magic and shocking secret being revealed. There are more secrets to come and more evil needing to be vanquished with her friends and family.

There’s not a lot of growth from the last book through this book. The back and forth between Defiance and her BFF made them seem a lot younger than they are. Overall, I liked the first but not so much this one. Still good enough to read the next one but slowly losing interest.

Audio: 5 star

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Betwixt by Darynda Jones

5 Stars

 

Defiance Dayne is destitute and jobless due to her divorce.  She is surprised by an inheritance of a house in Salem Massachusetts.  She just wants to find out why she was left the house and get back to Phoenix to fix her life.  Instead she finds a house everyone is terrified of.  A lawyer begging her to stay and a handyman covered in tattoos.  She feels like this might just be the home she needs.  She feels safe and secure for the first time in a while.  Her peaceful nights ends when neighbors start asking her to locate missing objects which leads to her discovering she is a witch. 

 

I loved this book.  It’s pacing was spot on and I couldn’t put it down.  It was so funny too.  I wanted to know how the book ended so much that I ended up reading it in one sitting.  It was also interesting to see her come into her power.  Can’t wait to read the next book.

 

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