Genre:
Chick Lit/Paranormal
Description:
"PMS
can be a real witch.
Ivie McKie
isn’t your run-of-the-mill kindergarten teacher. After an encounter
with a horny goat, followed by a confrontation with her lying,
cheating fiancé, Ivie is shocked when the big jerk suddenly
transforms into a skunk—the black and white furry variety.
Enlisting
the help of her shopaholic friend Chloe and sexy club magician
Jackson Blake, Ivie is forced to play a literal game of cat and mouse
as she races against the clock to change her ex back before she's
arrested for his murder... Ivie soon discovers what every witch worth
her spell book knows: There’s nothing worse than a bad case of Post
Magical Syndrome."
Author:
“After
walking away from her career as a business banker to pursue writing
full-time, Erica Lucke Dean moved from the hustle and bustle of the
big city to a small tourist town in the North Georgia Mountains,
where she lives in a 90-year-old haunted farmhouse with her
workaholic husband, her 180 lb. lap dog, and at least one ghost.
When she’s
not writing or tending to her collection of crazy chickens and
diabolical ducks, she’s either reading bad fan fiction or singing
karaoke in the local pub. Much like the main character in her first
book, To Katie With Love,
Erica is a magnet for disaster and has been known to trip on air
while walking across flat surfaces.
How she’s
managed to survive this long is one of life’s great mysteries.”
Learn more at her website or follow her on Facebook.
Appraisal:
I’ve read
books that combine something paranormal with another genre - romance,
thriller, and horror immediately come to mind - but I don’t think
I’ve ever read one that tossed chick-lit and paranormal together
before. Both the story conflict and much of the humor in Suddenly
Sorceress come about due to Ivie, the protagonist, finding that she
can cast spells, although she’s not sure exactly how she’s doing
it or how to undo what she’s done.
While I
felt sorry for Ivie and wondered if she was going to find a way to
turn her ex-fiancé back into a human, I was also laughing at her the
entire time. Some of that was because of the situations she found
herself in (getting attacked by a horny goat) and some was the
author’s sense of humor or way of describing something. One example
is the pop culture reference when Ivie as the narrator said she,
“felt the wintry air soak into me and shook like Bruce Banner in
the throes of a temper tantrum.” Another was prompted by her hair
which changed color over time (although she wasn’t dyeing it)
starting out with red highlights and eventually turning bright red,
which prompted this:
I look like
Ronald McDonald’s slutty younger sister. “Would you like a happy
ending with that value meal?”
This was a
very fun read, even for this non-chick.
FYI:
Adult
content and language.
Added for
Reprise Review: Suddenly Sorceress was the winner in the Paranormal
Romance category for BigAl’s Books and Pals 2014 Readers’ Choice
Awards. Original review ran February
20, 2014.
Format/Typo
Issues:
No
significant issues.
Approximate
word count: 70-75,000 words
Rating:
***** Five stars
Reviewed
by: BigAl
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