Book Review: Kristen Painter’s Sucks To Be Me

Age is just a number and midlife still has magic! How much magic, the newly widowed Belladonna Barrone is about to find out, just when she thinks she’s finally free of the mob life.
Age is just a number and midlife still has magic! How much magic, the newly widowed Belladonna Barrone is about to find out, just when she thinks she’s finally free of the mob life.
Jayne Frost and husband Sinclair Crowe are off to Nashville, aka Music City, to pay a royal visit to one of the Santa’s Workshops toy stores. Once that’s done, they’ll have a little time to sightsee and play tourist . . . until Sin gets all shook up after touching Elvis’ Cadillac.
Santa’s Workshop in Nocturne Falls is short-staffed, so Jayne Frost and Sinclair Crowe detour to the town where someone is breaking in to people’s houses. Worried that this will ruin Christmas, Jayne decides to do everything in her power to put an end to the problem.
A royal road trip takes the Princess and Prince Consort of the North Pole all the way to Las Vegas where trouble finds them. Now Sinclair’s entire family is gambling on him and Jayne figuring out what’s gone dangerously wrong with the cool new magic trick at the end of his parents’ show.
Someone is making Sinclair out to be the bad guy what with the sabotage and his being a necromancer. The question is, can Jayne, Winter elf, Jack Frost’s daughter, Santa Claus’s niece, heir to the Winter Throne and now . . . private investigator, chill the rumors that threaten the royal family and keep Sinclair from being permanently iced?
Plagued by dark shadows, Sunni Wells needs help from Aunt Alice to get control of her power. She’ll meet Ren Robillard who needs to hide out from a powerful vampire until his stalker catches up with him.
Ex-king Robin Gallow is imprisoned in the town of Shadowvale, increasingly constricted until the angry Theodora Middlebright arrives to serve her father’s indenture.
Emeranth Greer needs to escape her past and make a fresh start in Shadowvale—a town that proves to be far better than she imagined—with the aunt she’s never met. Then she meets raven shifter Deacon Evermore. But when Em’s past catches up with her, it nearly destroys their budding romance. Can a cursed man clear her name…or will her history destroy them both?
Both Nasha Black and Charlie Ashborne are cursed and reluctant for anyone to know, yet when Nasha shows up at his shop desperate for more of his chocolate, the two strike a bargain. Charlie will do anything to avoid the dragon census mating games.
Vampire Constantin Thibodeaux tells himself he’s comfortable with his bookselling life until he meets all around party girl Andromeda Merriweather, who has her own problems with a looming deadline.