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“William's Witch”
by
Alyssa Day
paranormal romance in a Kindle edition that was published by Holliday Publishing LLC on December 2, 2016 and has 67 pages.
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Other books by this author which I have reviewed include Wild Thing, Atlantis Rising, Atlantis Unleashed, Atlantis Awakening, Atlantis Unmasked, Atlantis Redeemed, Atlantis Betrayed, Vampire in Atlantis, Heart of Atlantis, Dead Eye, "Travelling Eye", Private Eye, Evil Eye, Eye of Danger, Eye of the Storm, Eye on the Ball, Apple of My Eye, A Dead End Thanksgiving Disaster, Blink of an Eye
Second in The Cardinal Witches paranormal romance series revolving around the Cardinal family of witches, a spin-off from the Tiger’s Eye Mystery series with a connection to Day’s Warriors of Poseidon series. The couple focus is on William Pemberley and Amy in Garden City, Ohio.
My Take
The first story, “Alejandro’s Sorceress”, is a precursor to Tiger’s Eye Mystery series and didn’t give me enough. This second story was even more annoying.
William’s magic is too good to be true, oy. Then there’s the insta-love. Well, on William’s part. The too-confident Amy is not at all susceptible to him, so that part is fun as William has been used to having his way in everything.
We learn all this through Day’s use of third person dual protagonist point-of-view from Amy’s and William’s perspectives.
At least Day included a couple of hitches with William’s allergy and lack of reaction to sunlight, with Amy’s inexperience in the greater outside world.
I did enjoy those references to what things were like in the “good old days” and playing tourist.
On the whole, I’ll pass on this series. I read “Alejandro’s Sorceress” because I wanted more depth on Alejandro from what little I got to know of him in the Tiger’s Eye Mystery series, but it’s not worth it. But this initial story was too short and not enough for me. I thought that “William’s Witch” might give me more, but no. In fact, Day ends this far short of any resolution. When I checked out “Jake’s Djinn”, it revolved around yet another of the Cardinal witches. If it’s anything like “William’s Witch”, I’ll pass.
The Story
William Pemberley woke up with a blazing hangover and realized that, yet again, he didn’t know where or when he was.
While it was a fairly common occurrence, what wasn’t common was landing in the middle of a standoff between a couple of knife-wielding thugs and a woman wearing a lopsided pair of plastic wings who looked the tuxedo-clad William over and snorted, “2016. Vampires are out, shifters are in, hashtag, it’s a new world, baby.”
The Characters
The Cardinal witches . . .
. . . live on Wildflower Lane in Garden City, Ohio, and are all garden witches.
Amaryllis “Amy” Minerva Cardinal is a witch with a major gift for finding and a minor gift for freezing, which explains why she’s a private detective. Sue is Rose’s mother and Amy’s aunt. The prideful Granny is actually Amy’s great-aunt. Cousin Rose Cardinal, who’s pregnant, is married to Special Agent Alejandro Vasquez with FBI Paranormal Ops (“Alejandro’s Sorceress“).
William Pemberley is a vampire who takes and is allergic to magic but not affected by the use of magic, physically. Mickey is a human whom William has trusted and who drives a carriage in New York City.
Myron and Rock Juneau are brothers, soldiers in the Manhattan branch of the Werewolf Mafia, and William’s enemies. Henry is an attacker. Anton is the vampire to whom William was sold.
The Cover and Title
The cover is mostly purples and reds with a radial gradient sky of purple to red with a white glow in the center, framing the curly, black-haired Amy wearing a red peaked witch’s hat with buckle and wearing a red bustier and red and black horizontally striped stockings. She’s got more bling in the form of a diamond necklace. In her left hand she’s holding a brown broom on a silver handle. On the ground is a wrought iron fence behind her and separating out two gray gravestones. On the left is a twisted tree trunk of blacks and purples. All the text is white, from the very top in an info blurb with the author’s name below it but above Amy. At the bottom, starting at Amy’s waist is a band in deep blue with white lines framing it above and below with the title. Below all this is the series info.
The title is to the point, for she is “William’s Witch”.
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