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.”
To learn more about Ms. Dean check out her website.
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 by Erica Lucke Dean was the WINNER in the Paranormal Romance
category for B&P 2014 Readers' Choice Awards. Original review ran February
20, 2014.
Format/Typo
Issues:
No significant issues.
Rating:
***** Five Stars
Reviewed
by: BigAl
Approximate
word count: 70-75,000 words
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