The Kari AnnAlysis

Maggie O’Neil’s life is in a downward spiral. No relationship and a crappy job are in the mix. That is until she follows an instinct and falls, literally, inside Enchantments, a quaint little antique store. She continues to be down on her luck. Her little fall cost her her crappy job, but then it all turns around just in the nick of time, or so she thinks. The owner of Enchantments, Felicity, offers Maggie a job, but Maggie isn’t there long before she finds out Felicity is a witch and the cops are on Felicity’s heels as a prime murder suspect in her sister’s death.

It doesn’t take Maggie long to stand up for her new boss, witch or not, and get down to business finding the real killer and get Felicity out of the limelight.

Plus, she got a taste of all this magic stuff, and is now intrigued and is hungry for a little more.

Let me start this with Madelyn Alt is such a creative writer. She has a vocabulary like a dictionary. I’m not going to lie, I had to look up a few words, but then added them to my mental dictionary to use in the future because I love being able to substitute. Thank good for the English language. There were several times where I could close my eyes and see myself, either at the murder scene or in the middle of one of the magical rituals.

I fell in love with Maggie in this book and Enchantments. I think a lot of women out there, knowing they would be able to survive financially, love to work in an antique store, or something along the likes. Mine would be a book store, surprise, surprise. But I could still do antiques or crafts. I find myself, the more I read about women in these other jobs, like makeup artist for the dead or bounty hunter, trying to imagine myself in those positions. Can’t really say I’d thrive in most of them, but it’s always fun jumping into a different life. That’s why most of us read right? Even if it is fiction, it puts us into a life we don’t have and gives a chance to see another side.

I saw one of the books in this series while making a trip to the library, bought it for my Nook and made it one of my beach reads. I loved it and flew through it and can’t wait to see what happens next with Maggie and I have a whole lot of catching up to do to get current with the series.

I give The Trouble with Magic 4 bookmarks, solely for the fact that I hope this series continues to grow on me and I fall in love with it even more as I go and can give future books the 5 bookmarks. I tend to dive into series’ and hand out 5 bookmarks on the first one, get 5 or 6 in and realize I am loving it more now than when I started and really only should’ve given 3 or 4 from the get-go. I will however come back to this post and up the ante if I get that far and  my feelings don’t change I have a lot of hope for this series and hope it lives up to my expectations.

ISBN: 978-0425207468
Released: January 2006
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Kari got this from the B&N Nook Book Store