The Thinking Woman's Guide to Real Magic

I loved this book so much I immediately had to find the second book and have loaned it out to everyone I can. It builds to something you don't expect, and you can sense the layers that sometimes catch and hold Nora back. I loved the feeling of being immersed in the struggle Nora has and the quips are fantastic! Let this story and the writing suck you in. There is a bit of time when the story seems to drag, but it fully matches what the character is going through. I'm looking forward to rereading this series soon.

After a somewhat so-so start, the story picks up and it becomes difficult to tear yourself away from the book.

This sounded like a fun Narnia like fantasy, but it was not. Unless you are a 30+ year old women who has never been in a relationship of any kind, even a close friendship, with a man, you're not going to like this. The only magical thing about this book was the marketing team. I did not read the whole thing after over 100 pages of WTF, I skimmed the rest until close to the ending. I went to read some reviews which confirmed that the middle was as bad as I thought it would be, worse actually. The voice was really good, but it was kind of like listening to a pleasant sounding drunk telling you a story that makes no sense to anyone but them. O.K. I'll stop now.