Dime Store Magic by Kelley Armstrong

Rating: 5.0

Moving right along in the Women of the Otherworld series brings me to Dime Store Magic. This may be my favorite in the series thus far. There's Cabals and Covens, spells and sorcery, walking dead and ghostly spirits....pretty much everything supernatural you could want in a novel.

This book has a change in main characters from the previous two. In Dime Store Magic, Paige and her young witch ward Savannah take center stage. These two witches team up with a very dashing and gallant young sorcerer lawyer named Lucas Cortez to try to fight a powerful Cabal bent on taking Savannah. There is lots of great action, a little light romance and plenty of spell casting. As always Kelley Armstrong's wit, humor and sharp dialogue make for a very fun read.

Stolen by Kelley Armstrong

Rating: 5.0

Stolen is the second book in the Women of the Otherworld series. It was a lot of fun! In this story we get to meet other 'races' besides the werewolves; for instance witches and vampires. The lone female werewolf Elena, from the first book, is captured by eccentric billionaire Tyrone Winsloe. Winsloe, the head of a secret underground lab, captures these other supernatural 'races' with nefarious means in mind. He gets more that he bargained for in Elena though. She's not the type to be taken advantage of. Stolen is fast paced with fun, witty dialogue. Publisher's Weekly says, "Though the tale is pretty much a prison-break story spiffed up with magic, Armstrong leavens the narrative with brisk action and intriguing dollops of werewolf culture that suggest a complex and richly imagined anthropologic backstory." I'm really looking forward to starting the next book in this series.