Genre: Paranormal Romance / Humor
Description:
“Kindergarten-teacher-slash-sorceress Ivie McKie has officially sworn
off magic. With her father back from the dead—just in time for her upcoming
wedding to sexy former magician Jackson Blake—Ivie has plotted a course
straight to happily-ever-after-ville. And she won’t let anything get in her way
this time.
But Daddy Dearest has something sneaky up his sleeve. When “just one
more spell” goes horribly wrong and detours her into the path of her father’s
dangerously hot new apprentice, Ivie has to scramble to get the magic… and her
love life… back on track.
Along the way, she encounters a promise made before she was born, a
clan of Scottish sorcerers in kilts, and yet another goat.”
Author:
“After walking away from her career as a business banker to pursue
writing full-time, Erica 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 180lb lap dog,
and at least one ghost.
When she's not busy writing or tending to her collection of crazy
chickens, diabolical ducks, and a quintet of piglets hell bent on having her
for dinner, 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. Check out her other books on her website and stalk her on Facebook
for fun.
Appraisal:
“Something witchy this way comes.”
Erica Lucke Dean’s words always cast a spell on me. Her prose is easy
to read and draws the reader in with believable dialogue and well set scenes.
There are many twists in this story that have Ivie grasping for her sanity. The
story is told through her eyes so we only know as much as she does. Her father,
Angus, has secrets he has not shared with anyone. These secrets are now back to
haunt not only him, but they also affect Ivie’s future and she sees no way out.
Angus has more than one secret and keeps digging his hole deeper as
time passes. Suddenly, he has a new apprentice. A handsome Scottish man named
Liam McDougall, who just happens to be Ivie’s age. He also seems to know more
magic than Angus. The worst part is the barely controllable sexual pull Ivie
feels when Liam is near. Daddy has done some dickering around and drawn Ivie
into a few spells, which she had sworn off, and her hair is bright red. Jack is
understandably jealous, especially when Liam shows up at every turn of events
that are plaguing Ivie.
It’s a fun romp until the whole McDougall clan shows up, including
Liam’s mother. It seems she and Angus knew each other as children. The IRS and
the FBI both have questions for Ivie’s mother and father concerning Angus’s
life insurance policy that was collected after his supposed death. There is
trouble brewing all around and you must read this to see how it all turns out.
There is a surprising twist at the end that leaves a few things unresolved…
Buy now
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FYI:
Suddenly
Spellbound is book 2 in The Ivie McKie Chronicles. While it could be read as a
standalone, I don’t understand why you would want to.
Original review posted February 28, 2016.
Format/Typo
Issues:
No significant issues.
Rating:
***** Five Stars
Reviewed
by: ?wazithinkin
Approximate word count: 70-75,000 words
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