The Oldest Kind of Magic (Magic series)
by Ann Macela
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Author: Ann MacelaEdition: Mass Market Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2005-10-01
ISBN: 1932815430
Number of pages: 379
Publisher: Medallion Press
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Book Review: Lame and labored
Summary: 1 Stars
This is one of the lamest and limpest of the plethora of romance novels trying to combine magic with the mating urges of the male and female protaginists. First off, the names are so horrible that you have to laugh. No male hero in a romance novel should be named 'Bent'. I will not explain further, but anyone who reads romance novels should understand why a "bent" hero makes me laugh so hard that I choke. The stilted conversation between the couple is beyond believable. My personal favorites are during their early courtship when he mentions that they're both going to some business event and she says some blah-blan-blah about taking business cards and then ends with "How is your raspberry-and-cognac-liqueur gelato?" Yeah, during my dating days I always asked my date how his chocolate-mint and vanilla double scoop ice cream on a waffle cone was, just as I was moving in for the heat! Later on the same date, she asks him in for a nightcap and he turns her down by saying,"Thank you, but I have to decline. I have too much work still to do tonight." With that as the start, I could just see this romance getting so hot that maybe they would hang flowered wallpaper together! The heroine, a thirty-year-old virgin, can't decide whether to go ahead & have a romance with her soulmate (eyech!) or not. We get to hear about the fact she is a thirty-year-old virgin pretty much every page or two. I'm glad this occurred, since I forgot that fact so quickly. I'd be reading along and suddenly say to myself,"Oh, yes! She's a thirty-year-old virgin! That explains everything!". The inclusion of her pathetically warm and batty family comes off as a desperate attempt to 1)provide the story with some action and warm family fun, 2)give the woman people to discuss her virginal status with every three or four pages, and 3)provide the author with lots of secondary characters to base books on in the near future (you get this message ten pages in when the mother tells her daughters that all of them will find their soulmates in the next year--sense a sequel, ladies?). The whole book is so laughabley bad that I started reading it out loud to my husband while giggling so hard that I cried. He was reading information about pellet stoves at the time & I found his reading material way more interesting than mine--good comparison for anyone trying to read this book. Folks, if you're into this genre of book, there are so many better ones out there, don't waste your precious time on this cow turd. Life is too short and trees are too scarce for this sad thing to have ever been published.
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