A Call to Charms

Forever Charmed Mysteries, Book 1

By: Denise Swanson

Narrated by: Tiffany Morgan

If life had gone as she planned, Lexie Green would have been teaching English at a prestigious university, not persuading spoiled, rich women to buy overpriced clothes they didn't need and often looked ridiculous wearing. Can you say electric yellow see-through skirts and torn jeans with unfinished hems?

Still, although this isn't the life Lexie would have chosen, all is going well. At least until Lexie is fired and her deranged ex-boyfriend tries to kidnap her.

Deciding that it's better to accept a mysterious inheritance from a great aunt she's never heard of rather than end up kept in a cage as her ex's pet poodle, Lexie packs up and heads to Kansas. So, what if she has to go by a new name and live in a town that she can't find on a map?

Unfortunately, once she arrives in her new hometown, everyone there seems just a tad off-kilter, and Lexie's cousin insists that the citizens are magical.

Even though Lexie doesn't believe the nonsense about her being the Ravenscraft Shield, she does believe her father was murdered - a father she never knew existed, and she investigates his death.

Too bad whoever killed her father now wants Lexie dead as well.

©2019 Denise Swanson Stybr (P)2020 Tantor

Charming Story

The story was interesting, not usually reading magic type books with charms, etc. The narration was absolutely fabulous. I loved listening to her voice. Very well read!

Not my favorite

Main character was irratating, or the maybe it was the narrator. She seemed an air head. Too much clothing detail.

Reads like fan fiction

It's not fan fiction, but it sure seems like it. The narrator complains about her weight and other people reacting to it at least once every half hour. She even mentioned she's only a size 14, so I get the idea that the author has issues.
The shallow, vapid narrator talks about fashion and reality tv entirely too often and has to choose between two gorgeous men. It's a self-insert fan fiction... without the fan fiction part.
That said, it was entertaining enough to fonish, but I did groan in exasperation a lot. If I wasn't covered in gunk from painting the bathroom, I probably would have turned it off and picked something else.

DELIGHTFUL NEW COZY PARANORMAL

A NEW VENTURE FOR THIS OFFER AND WELL WORTH THE TIME. LEXI IS AN INTERESTING CHARACTER AS ARE ALL THE CITIZENS OF HER HOMETOWN. THIS PROMISES TO BE QUITE A FUN SERIES.

magic

It was an ok story... In parts, started just carrying on.... promised in marriage.... new life.....