| Author: Kelley Armstrong | Series: Women of the Otherworld |
| Rating: 8 | Reviewer: James M. Ward |
| Genre: Fantasy | Publisher:Bantam |
DIME STORE MAGIC
By Kelley Armstrong
Bantam Spectra Supernatural Fantasy
ISBN: 0-553-58706-4
Paperback
U.S. $6.99
Book Rating: 8
Review by James M. Ward
Kelley Armstrong writes a line of books called WOMEN OF THE OTHERWORLD SERIES. DIME STORE MAGIC is part of that series, but it’s a book that can be read without knowing about the other books.
In Ms. Armstrong’s “otherworld” universe, we see a modern day world where supernatural creatures like vampires, witches, werewolves, and sorcerers walk among normal humans and hide their existence as best they can.
In this world sorcerers tend to work in cabals with those organizations looking like huge corporations, but spanning the centuries and managing awesome magical power. Witches, to a Cabal sorcerer, are nothing more than employees to be used up as the Cabal sees fit.
Paige Winterbourne has taken on the responsibility of raising a young teenage witch into the ways of the coven. That would have presented more than enough of a challenge, but it seems young Savannah might be the daughter of a witch/sorcerer relation. The sorcerer is the head of a powerful Cabal and suddenly he wants his daughter back. He’s willing to take her using all the Cabals resources from legal means to direct attacks by cabal witches.
The combination of using normal legal means to gain his daughter and the use of supernatural force makes for a great read. In all of this trouble, Paige determines she is in the need for a supernatural lawyer and she finds Cortez, not only a sorcerer lawyer, but also one known for fighting the power of the Cabals. The only problem with him is that as we learn more and more about him we discover he’s the son of the most powerful Cabal in the world.
Ms. Armstrong works the world of the supernatural well with the natural world. I enjoyed reading this book and I strongly recommend it to readers liking modern day fantasy.
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