Review: Doubleshot Book Reviews - a chocolate covered MUST READ!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 06 12, 2014
I hadn’t set foot in the human world for more than a few hours in over three and a half months. Sure, I was stronger and faster than I’d ever been before, and I had a shiny new sword, but I was seriously chocolate deprived. I don’t recommend quitting cold turkey. And the new sword was a problem — to my mind, anyway. It represented all the expectations of a powerful father and a new otherworldly life. A life that wasn’t the one I’d worked so hard to build. It also represented the responsibility I had to bring my foster sister Sienna to … what? Justice? I didn’t know if that was even possible. What I did know was that Sienna wouldn’t stop, and that I couldn’t just leave everything up to fate and destiny … or maybe I was. Maybe I was doing exactly what I was supposed to be doing. If you believed in that sort of thing.I just hoped that before the chaos and mayhem renewed, I’d manage to get my hands on some chocolate. It didn’t even have to be single-origin Madagascar. I was utterly prepared to lower my standards.Thus begins book 3 of the Dowser Series by the ever talented and always highly chocolatinated, Meghan Ciana Doidge. (Chocolatinated may not be a real word, but I guarantee Ms Doidge is quite often close to being over chocolinated…not that that is a bad thing.) Treasures, Demons and Other Black Magic is quite different from the previous 2 books, in that it is ACTION PACKED….like practically nonstop action from the moment you start reading. Our cupcake baking, chocolate craving half witch and her friends not only use magic to do battle, but swords, knives, fists You see our heroine, Jade, must find and defeat her foster sister, Sienna, who has taken to practicing black magic, which leads to murder and demon summoning and that’s never a good thing.Jade returns to the human world after 3 months of training with her father and his other, we will call them cohorts, because calling them anything else would be….spoilers. She is again joined with her friends Kandy, a werewolf, the vampire Kett, her mother and grandmother, of course, potential love interest and shape shifter, Desmond and a host of other Adept. We, also, meet 13 year old, Drake who has is own special ability, but again….I can’t go into detail without ruining things for you.With Jade’s newfound abilities and the training she has received we enjoy some fun new moments in Jade kicking ass and taking names, but we still learn that, like nearly all people with and without special powers, she still needs her friends to help her out from time to time. And even with this help we start to question if it’s enough. Will Jade be able to defeat her sister and the demons she is summoning and how many will die in order for this to happen? These question and more will be answered in the latest Dowser book, Treasures, Demons and Other Black Magic.This series is a lot of fun to read, oh, and do yourself a favor, have some chocolate on hand, because you’re doing to be craving it. Trust me!