Didn’t love it, didn’t hate it. Average cozy mystery starring a witch with psychic powers.

Certain things about the first book in this series were appealing (the seer aspects and the evil legion), while other parts felt cliche (using sex to grow in power). There were a couple of author shout outs to the LoTRs movies which made me laugh, so the author obviously has a sense of humor, but at time the wit of the main character was too over the top in difficult situations. Some writers can pull this off, like the writers of Buffy, where the sarcasm in tense situations worked, because she was a teenager, but the snippy comments by the main character in this book didn’t always come off as cute or appealing.

While most people who read this book adored it, I thought it was a bit of a let down. It seemed that although Bella and Edward’s love was forbidden since the start that things ran a little too smoothly for the couple. It just seemed like they got happily ever after with no real consequences, so in that aspect it was disappointing.

When writing a themed mystery, I think it’s rare to find an author who can give a good balance of mystery and information on the theme subject. This book seemed heavy on information about antiques and sort of felt like reading a term paper instead of a mystery novel. While the characters were interesting, the end solution of the mystery was somewhat predictable and the novel was bogged down by overly descriptive passages with no action.

Nancy Atherton writes cute, entertaining books. You get all the puzzle factor of a mystery without all the blood shed and mayhem. They are an interesting change of pace from a normal mystery.

Boring and derivative. The author overused the f word making it lose it’s punch by the time you got to the end of the novel. He would frequently refer to his characters delivering lines just like famous movie characters, so if you didn’t see the movie, you didn’t understand the reference. It’s a lazy writer’s way to describe things, because instead of actually describing how the person delivered the line, you expect the person reading the novel to conjure up a picture of that movie and superimpose your lines over what was actually said. It draws the reader out of the fantasy realm you’ve created.

While the story lines in the clay and crime mystery series are fairly interesting along with a good supporting cast of characters and potting information, I find the main character in this series to be a bitch and in need of an immediate personality transplant.

I couldn’t even finish this book. I wasn’t crazy about Witchling, but I didn’t hate it, so I expected the next book in the series to be a little better, but I was totally disappointed. Camille and Delilah are just not likable characters.

Not quite as action packed as the previous book in this series, but still interesting. When I started on this series, I found it derivative, but the more Julie Kenner writes the more I like the world she’s building for Kate Conner. I especially liked how in the end Stuart found out that Kate is a demon hunter, because I didn’t like how clueless he was.

I guess this book was a little too cute for my taste. I didn’t even make it to the end.