Katie Chandler has convinced herself that the weird things she sees are just the difference in her old life in rural Texas and her new life in New York City. Then she's approached by a strange man, and according to him, all the winged people, tiny creatures and disappearing gargoyles she sees are real -- and they need her help. She can't be fooled by magic -- she always sees things as they really are -- so she can prevent them being taken advantage of by other magic creatures. That might be a pretty cool job, since she gets a big raise and all, but then the other side learns of her existence and even Merlin, yes, the Merlin, has his job cut out for him.
I enjoyed this offering from Ms. Swendson very much. The storyline was totally fresh, the characters very likable and the setting quite believable. Though she wrote previously as Samantha Carter, this is her first novel under the Shanna Swendson pseudonym. I will definitely be looking for more of her magical chick-lit in the future. A good read.
Katie Chandler had always heard that New York is a weird
and wonderful place, but this small-town Texas gal had no
idea how weird until she moved there. Everywhere she goes,
she sees something worth gawking at and Katie is afraid
sheβs a little too normal to make a splash in the big city.
Working for an ogre of a boss doesnβt help.
Then, seemingly out of the blue, Katie gets a job offer
from Magic, Spells, and Illusions, Inc., a company that
tricks of the trade to the magic community. For MSI,
Katieβs ordinariness is an asset. Lacking any bit of magic,
she can easily spot a fake spell, catch hidden clauses in
competitorβs contracts, and detect magically disguised
intruders. Suddenly, average Katie is very special indeed.
She quickly learns that office politics are even more
complicated when your new boss is a real ogre, and you have
a crush on the sexy, shy, ultra powerful head of the R&D
department, who is so busy fighting an evil competitor
threatening to sell black magic on the street that he seems
barely to notice Katie. Now itβs up to Katie to pull off
the impossible: save the world andβhopefullyβlive happily
ever after.
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