Fun and sassy and magical. All the best things. I love the world she's building here. ( )

I enjoy this series and wow are things getting hot!
I have one question though if being a charmling is so secretive than why oh why did Ruthie blab about it to everyone? ( )

So happy to have this author back in my life. I read the entire Charley Davidson series and needed Darynda's daily nourishment of snark. ( )

A pretty good follow up to book one after a rough start involving a heavy and silly dose of self denial on the part of the mc that fooled exactly no one.

Lots of heavy hints about upcoming darkness and drama, and a lot of unrelieved sexual tension for the mc and her romantic interest - which they deserve if they expected any privacy in the kitchen of a house with 4 other people wandering around in it.

In true Jones fashion, there's no one story line, but rather multiple small things that happen and several resolutions brought about, some more exciting than others. Defiances' climbing of her personal learning curve might be a little conveniently easy, if for the author, if not herself, but given the publication time frame of these stories, it's understandable, and the story works in spite of it as long as you aren't looking for anything too meaty or involved.

I'm looking forward to book three and the chance to revisit the characters. ( )

Defiance Dayne has just awakened from a six-month coma and is trying to come to terms with her new paranormal talents. She is a charmling -one of only three on the planet. Other witches, especially those who practice dark magic, want to steal her power. So she has decided to say that she lost her powers.

None of her friends and family believe her though. Neither do the people who are constantly knocking on her door looking for help. Neither does a revenant witch catcher from the days of the Salem Witch Trials.

Defiance also has to deal with a current villain who really wants her to raise the dead for him and is willing to go to extreme measures to convince her to do that.

This story is filled with quirky characters. Defiance, especially, is a unique person. She's the viewpoint character and has a unique way of seeing the world.

This is the middle book in a trilogy but stands alone quite well. ( )