So Enchanting

Enchanting! And delightful and funny and novel and satisfying! Great narrative style, a novel plot, engaging characters ( even the secondary characters are wonderfully well drawn). Heartily recommend. If you like this you will love The Spare, Carolyn Jewel.

I'm a huge Connie Brockway fan, have been for years. In fact, I think she could re-write the phone book and she'd keep me up burning the midnight oil to get to the Zs, alphabetically as well as somnorifically. After a break writing contemporaries (the wonderful Hot Dish and Skinny Dipping), she's back in familiar Brockway territory, especially for lovers of her books Bridal Season and Bridal Favors. We're in an eccentric village (Little Firkin in Scotland) in the Victorian era with a large cast of eccentric characters, a madcap plot, a VERY appealing hero and a smart, courageous heroine with a slightly shady past and secrets to hide. There's a paranormal element to add spice to this wonderful mixture but the glory of the book is the push and pull relationship between Grey, the hero, and Fanny, the heroine. Some of the dialogue will have you laughing out loud! Fanny has genuine psychic powers which she's doing her best to suppress and hide. She also has a less than pristine past as the offsider for a fake medium. Grey investigates and exposes liars and cheats who claim false extrasensory powers they use to defraud the public. The game is set for a titanic battle of wills, especially when both Grey and Fanny are in the grip of an overwhelming attraction for each other. This book is sparkling fun! Read it!

What makes Connie Brockway such a brilliant writer is that even her "lighter" books have a depth of emotion that gets to me every time. This book is in the vein of Bridal Favors . . . Gray and Fanny bicker, flirt, fight and charm each other on every page . . . and this reader was swept away!

WOW!!! "So Enchanting" is just that...ENCHANTING!! - If I had to give one dislike it would be that it did not need to be 400+ pages. It did drag in some places. However, that said, the last 100 pages or so will make you forgive that! Had it not slowed my initial interest the way it did, this would have been a 1-nighter read! Absolutely! I love the cover and the insert cover, but what I absolutely loved the most - and what Ms. Brockway's coup de grace was - is definitely the ending!!! Sure we all know the happily ever after is happening for the two main characters; that's a given. But I adore that on rare occasion (such as this) the author closes with something more, something different. Some people read for the romance, some for the steamy scenes... my thing (aside from it being historical) is definitely humor! And when you run across a book, a story, an author, that hits it *so* perfectly, you absolutely want MORE!!! So I guess I have to amend my "if I had to give one dislike...well it's actually two: I *so* wanted more magic, *more* scenes and situations with Fanny's gift/curse, and more, more, MORE of Grammy Beadle!!! So, instead of ending the story with the typical married happily ever-after, I hope you will enjoy [as I did] Ms. Brockway's ending with a scene from the beginning of the story: in the streets of Little Firkin! I absolutely laughed my @$$ off!! - One suggestion: (and for any fans of Julia Quinn's "Lady Whistledown" character, you will appreciate this) find a way to put Grammy Beadle in a whole string of stories! =) - This is perhaps one of 4 or 5 books I've read this year (and I read a couple a week) that's a solid 5* and keeper! Enjoy! =)

I just finished this book and I loved it! I really like paranormal and magic books, but I'm sick to death of vampires and werewolves. I thought this was such a great historical, with a little bit of magic, just enough to be fun. And I adored the main characters, especially the hero -- very growly and sexy!