Don't pay any attention to the amount of time it took me to read this book. I've been really busy lately.
I love going to my mom's house as she quite frequently sends me home with something new to read. Last time, it was this book and some Heather Grahams. I have never read anything by Jennifer under this pseudonym; I have previously known her by the name Jennifer Apodaca, author of the Samantha Shaw Mystery Series. (Which I love)
I was a little iffy when my mom tried to pimp the story to me. It's about witches and demons and slayers and sex magic. And I was like "Ohh boy". I'm not usually into fantasy-type stories (ohh they call it paranormal romance), that said- some of my favorite stories are fantasy; ie. The Lord of the Rings, The Mists of Avalon, The Winter of the World Trilogy, and The Circle Trilogy. Hey, I like sequels and guess what? THIS ONE HAS ONE.
Blood Magic is about a young woman who learns she that she is a witch and people want to kill her for it. There are a small handful of men who know what she is, and are sworn to help her, but they have an "itch" to kill her too. On top of all this, she has a week to master her newly found powers and cure a sweet little girl of a deadly curse. And then there is love and trust issues.
If I had to make one complaint, it would be the cheesy love scenes, or more the dialog therein. Sex scenes in books never work for me because I get caught up on the "nobody says that" !!! When's the last time anyone said they wanted to "touch your sweet desire??" Really. Girls, you will never, ever have a man say that to you because straight men don't talk or think that way. And when you go from thought processes like that to "balls slapping", it just doesn't work for me.
I just had to get that off my chest because it seems all romance books write that crap. A good book draws you in and you're no longer a spectator, but a participant, and nothing sucks more than suddenly being thrust back into the audience when your mind rebels to a campy line and screams "Who says that?"
That said, I really, really liked this book and I can't wait to read the next one. This should prove to be a series that has at least 4 to 5 books total, I think, based on the character formula she has set up. I'm going to have to raid my mom's book piles (can you believe she doesn't really have a functioning book shelf???) and see if she's got the next one, Soul Magic.
Happy Reading!
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Hey, I have a lot of little books shelves all through out the house... there are the Clancy shelf, the fantasy shelf, the Cornwall shelf, the "I worked on those book shelf, and the book shelf at work is filled with Craise and Child.
Yes, Soul Magic is resting a top a pile of books in the new room window.
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