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No Rest for the Witches
by Cheyenne McCray, Christine Warren, MaryJanice Davidson, Lori Handeland
I picked up NO REST FOR THE WITCHES as a light Halloween read and that's exactly what it is. Nevermind that I read it in January (Oops).
Inside are 4 novellas, each featuring a witch or witches. Each have their own charm, and each are hilarious romps of romance that had me in tears of laughter. MaryJanice Davidson's "The Majicka" in particular had me screaming because it's exactly the sort of thing I want to write: giant team-ups of magical creatures going on silly adventures and fighting the establishment. "Voodoo Moon" was darker, and a lot of "Is it really going to do this? Omg it did it" happened in my head, and I wanted to give it a star. The amount of fun Cheyenne McCray had in writing "Breath of Magic" was apparent, to the point I wondered if it was legal to have that much fun. The main character of Randy in Christine Warren's "Any Witch Way She Can" is someone I want to 100% befriend in real life. She's such a riot!
Though I did have fun, the stories succumb to flaws that prevent me from giving a 5 star rating. Some of these quibbles might be just between me and the romance genre in general. I'm demisexual, so I had trouble suspending disbelief that characters could go from meeting to boinking (and once, proposing marriage) in the space of 24 hours. Also...there is a lot of boinking in the mud, which does not sound pleasant. They couldn't wait for a bed? The plots also had a level of predictability that was probably meant to be comforting, but wasn't for me. While the characters being more in their 30s was heartening, I was waiting for a non-white protagonist or maybe a woman who loves women, but was disappointed on both fronts, I think.
In any case, pick NO REST FOR THE WITCHES up if you're in the mood for a good time, but not a terribly inventive one. If you ever meet a real life Randy or Ireland, let me know so we can be BFFs forever.
Inside are 4 novellas, each featuring a witch or witches. Each have their own charm, and each are hilarious romps of romance that had me in tears of laughter. MaryJanice Davidson's "The Majicka" in particular had me screaming because it's exactly the sort of thing I want to write: giant team-ups of magical creatures going on silly adventures and fighting the establishment. "Voodoo Moon" was darker, and a lot of "Is it really going to do this? Omg it did it" happened in my head, and I wanted to give it a star. The amount of fun Cheyenne McCray had in writing "Breath of Magic" was apparent, to the point I wondered if it was legal to have that much fun. The main character of Randy in Christine Warren's "Any Witch Way She Can" is someone I want to 100% befriend in real life. She's such a riot!
Though I did have fun, the stories succumb to flaws that prevent me from giving a 5 star rating. Some of these quibbles might be just between me and the romance genre in general. I'm demisexual, so I had trouble suspending disbelief that characters could go from meeting to boinking (and once, proposing marriage) in the space of 24 hours. Also...there is a lot of boinking in the mud, which does not sound pleasant. They couldn't wait for a bed? The plots also had a level of predictability that was probably meant to be comforting, but wasn't for me. While the characters being more in their 30s was heartening, I was waiting for a non-white protagonist or maybe a woman who loves women, but was disappointed on both fronts, I think.
In any case, pick NO REST FOR THE WITCHES up if you're in the mood for a good time, but not a terribly inventive one. If you ever meet a real life Randy or Ireland, let me know so we can be BFFs forever.