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Trace of Magic The Diamond City Magic Novels Book 1 eBook Diana Pharaoh Francis

This book couldn't decide if it was a romance or an urban fantasy. The problem with it was, the love bits were injected at key moments in the story, bringing the action to a halt. It's hard to feel the heroine is in immediate danger if she takes a nice long bath or indulges in some monkey lovin' with her new man right in the middle of a crisis.

There were also some mistakes and just plain unbelievable parts. Riley first says her mother died when she was five and her father remarried "a few years later." Further in, she says she was four and her stepsister was born just a year later. As far as sheer ridiculousness, there's a part where something precious and dangerous has been recovered. The author wants us to think that the hero, a police detective, wouldn't even look into the bag to see what the stuff was for the entire 24 hours the heroine is asleep. "I waited for you," he says. Apparently, despite their immediate peril, he sat around for a day not trying to find out anything new, not even looking at the evidence, until she wakes up. Argh.

There's also some pretty overused plotlines, like, "Oh, I hate him, he's everything I fight against, but damn he's just so hot I can't help myself." There's insta-love. The hero is a strong silent gorgeous hot alpha male, natch. In the LUV scenes, there's the predictable biting, her of his lip, him of her nipple (ouch), and of course he holds her hands over her head and won't let her move while he does all the work. because that's what we all secretly want, strong independent kick-ass woman or not.

If I seem annoyed, it's because I am. This book could have been so much better if it hadn't inserted those distracting, silly, moony-eyed moments right in the middle of the action. It made it hard to believe when Riley suddenly feels urgency to get back to trying to save someone's life and avoid the dangerous people after them. I just don't think you'd stop for a smooch and ardent declaration of love in public when people are actively trying to kill you.

I gave this book there stars for the ideas and world building. Riley story was so much more interesting than those hackneyed sappy bits, and I wanted to know more about her abilities and less about how much everything hurts (she gets beat up a lot), and how much she loves the hero. There was a better sorry in there that I would have liked to read.


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Trace of Magic The Diamond City Magic Novels Book 1 eBook Diana Pharaoh Francis Reviews

I really like the universe. The magic and the gangs all make sense and are interesting. And I love some of the other series by this author.

What I didn't like was the sex.

SPOILER ALERT**********

Riley gets shot. Two days and one healing spell later she is sleeping with a cop she has feared and despised for years. She cannot resist his charms at all. He lies to her and misleads her and she jumps his bones as soon as he gives her a smoldering glance. Hypothermia, magic backlash, physical injury...all mean nothing as soon as they lock eyes or lips.

I just didn't buy it. It was more like a telenovela as soon as he touched her skin. I don't mind adult scenes in grownup books, but it has to make sense in the story. This came real close to derailing the narrative. I was disgusted by her lack of resolve.

This is more of a 3.5 stars than a true four. The world and most of the characters and the writing are worth a five, but the main character is a two at best.
It started out so good, then progressively got worse. I think that's why I'm particularly disappointed. Such a great idea. When they first start looking for Josh, you can't read one paragraph with out it commenting about hot Price is, and how she must resist the attraction. We get it, it doesn't have to be mentioned constantly. The witty playfulness was constant and was too over played. I like witty and playfulness both, but too much gets annoying and some scenes it not appropriate or believable. And sex right after you've been shot? Give me a break. The beginning banter between Riley and the dreamer was very immature and childish, and B movie status. Then stopping to have an elaborate discussing about your relationship in the heat of your investigation, danger, and when your on a time crunch? And suddenly you're in love?That was as far as I could get. I couldn't read any more. Maybe it gets better.
This series is marketed as "fantasy", even says that on the spine, but it's paranormal romance. Super-duper specially talented woman meets a**h*** man, turns into a dog in heat. Story completely lost me when they have sex right after she gets shot (also, I'm pretty sure forcing someone to drink a glass of whiskey and then a glass of chocolate milk when they are going into shock is not a good idea. And then holding her down to have sex with her... um, not enough no in the world) Towards the end of the book, the author also wrote "was enough to make me throw up. Again. I'd been doing that a lot lately. So attractive in a woman." Because when you've been shot, beat, cut to ribbons, etc, the real problem is going to be how attractive men find you. It's also really predictable. When she introduces Clay, and calls him an a**h***, gee wonder who the love interest will be. Or when you find out who he's forced Riley into helping him look for, wonder who the ex-fiancee is? (which her sister's fiance breaks off the engagement it must have been to protect her, he's a selfless martyr. But the woman who does it? well, she's a cold-hearted bitch, of course) SO disappointed in this author, I won't be preordering any of her books again.

What is it about writing women in the "real" world that makes an author's portrayal of women go so quickly downhill? This could have been such a good story if it had been about the mythology and mystery instead of drooling over the man the whole time
This book couldn't decide if it was a romance or an urban fantasy. The problem with it was, the love bits were injected at key moments in the story, bringing the action to a halt. It's hard to feel the heroine is in immediate danger if she takes a nice long bath or indulges in some monkey lovin' with her new man right in the middle of a crisis.

There were also some mistakes and just plain unbelievable parts. Riley first says her mother died when she was five and her father remarried "a few years later." Further in, she says she was four and her stepsister was born just a year later. As far as sheer ridiculousness, there's a part where something precious and dangerous has been recovered. The author wants us to think that the hero, a police detective, wouldn't even look into the bag to see what the stuff was for the entire 24 hours the heroine is asleep. "I waited for you," he says. Apparently, despite their immediate peril, he sat around for a day not trying to find out anything new, not even looking at the evidence, until she wakes up. Argh.

There's also some pretty overused plotlines, like, "Oh, I hate him, he's everything I fight against, but damn he's just so hot I can't help myself." There's insta-love. The hero is a strong silent gorgeous hot alpha male, natch. In the LUV scenes, there's the predictable biting, her of his lip, him of her nipple (ouch), and of course he holds her hands over her head and won't let her move while he does all the work. because that's what we all secretly want, strong independent kick-ass woman or not.

If I seem annoyed, it's because I am. This book could have been so much better if it hadn't inserted those distracting, silly, moony-eyed moments right in the middle of the action. It made it hard to believe when Riley suddenly feels urgency to get back to trying to save someone's life and avoid the dangerous people after them. I just don't think you'd stop for a smooch and ardent declaration of love in public when people are actively trying to kill you.

I gave this book there stars for the ideas and world building. Riley story was so much more interesting than those hackneyed sappy bits, and I wanted to know more about her abilities and less about how much everything hurts (she gets beat up a lot), and how much she loves the hero. There was a better sorry in there that I would have liked to read.