A Call to Charms
Forever Charmed Mysteries, Book 1
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A Call to Charms
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Narrated by:
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Tiffany Morgan
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By:
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Denise Swanson
About this listen
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 TantorListeners also enjoyed...
a good bedtime listen
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I found it difficult to like her. She seemed far more interested in designer labels and money than the people around her, and parts of the book sound like clumsy product placement. She notices nothing about her love interests but their looks and clothes. She also manages to learn very little about her own talents, never meeting or finding out more about 'her raven'. Most of the characters were one-dimensional, including her own it seems. Her lack of connection with others could be explained by the fact that she knows a master of dark magic and other threats hunt her, and that she grew up a loner. But it is unsatisfying when there is a lack of character development. Her materialistic personality can be understood to some extent by growing up with very little, but when that seems to be her main trait, it is disappointing. I got the feeling that the author was not yet at ease writing in the fantasy genre, and so skirted the edges of it instead of diving in. It's a shame because she has shown skill in her other work.
Superficial Main Character
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Rubbish
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Boring waffle
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