I have some pretty good ideas on who the other Charmling is and I'm excited to see when she will come into play as well. Defiance is coming into her own and the people around her are finding their places in the story too. Good thing one of them pretty much is dropped in her lap. Defiance is going to need to find the two other Charmlings if she has a chance to defeat the big bad on its way. There is danger on the horizon and a prophecy to face. Defiance is really trying to keep a low profile, but that really isn't her thing. There is also a warlock hunter in town searching for Charmlings. Weird things keep happening like the stove blowing up and possibly a poisoner in their midst.

With a cast like that, there is a ton of potential for fun and shenanigans.ĭefiance is trying to figure out who killed her grandmother in the first place and who might be trying to kill them all now. She is living in a house haunted by her dead grandfather, with a handy wolfman who wears some sexy kilts, a best friend to have all the fun banter with, a child ghost that followed her home, something living in the attic and her grandmother who she kinda brought back from the dead. I wasn't as frustrated with the main character so my enjoyment increased. I think this is the big change that let me enjoy this story more. Beguiled, the third book in the Betwixt and Between series did enough to keep me really interested in our heroine and her ever growing list of enemies.ĭefiance has finally accepted her magic and has stopped running away from the woman she is meant to be. It is the one that either pushes me to be invested in the characters and overall plot or to walk away from the series. The third book in any series is usually the make it or break it book for me. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review. This review was originally posted on Books of My Heart

Now if she can only figure out how to tame a lacuna wolf. Until then, it’s business-and hopefully romance-as usual. None of that will matter, however, if she can’t figure out how to foil the supernatural assassin who’s been sent for her. If it’s heading in the direction she’s hoping for, she can die happy. Find out who killed her beloved grandmother, teach her BFF the finer points of spellcasting before she blows up the world, and figure out how serious her relationship with the Adonis living in her basement really is. She decides she has three things to do before she can die. When one of them sends a hunter to town, she knows it’s time to take her talents seriously before the hunter takes her life. Especially if one is a charmling, one of only three in the world, with enough magics to make her a target for every power-hungry warlock out there. Newly indoctrinated witch, Defiance Dayne discovers there’s more to life after forty than she'd ever imagined possible.

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