Review: Good choice for a fanasy-phobic reader!
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 05 28, 2012
Goorreads Description- Jake thought he had a juvenile delinquent witch in need of rescue. Romy couldn't decide if he was a kidnapper, liar, or too good to be true.  Throw in Tattoo Boy, sparking fingers, and a seven-year-old who can see the future, and you have all the makings for a romance.Really.Well, there's some really great linguine and a duet from West Side Story, too.I really don't like fantasy books from going all the way back to high school when we were forced to read The Hobbit and other "high" fantasies, so now as an adult I think I am missing out on some good books simple because I'm too afraid to try.  I don't like made up worlds and people, weird mystery powers, and searching for rings.  So now that I have listed all the reasons let me tell you you why I picked this book and actually liked it.I had to pick a fantasy book to read for a bookclub and immediately my heart started racing, so I picked up my handy Kindle and started looking and found To Love a Witch.  I read the description and it passed some of my initial tests....it is set in the real world and no one is worried about a ring!  LOL!!  A bonus was that it was a short story!  So off I went to read my fantasy and I have to say that I liked it!  It was too short to really like it or say it was amazing but it was the perfect book for a girl afraid of fantasy.  Let's just say this was "fantasy-light".  Jake works for the Sentinal of Magic and works in his zone of New Mexico to find young witches and work with them to learn to control their magic and use it in non-harmful ways.  An alert comes in that magic is being used and he goes to find the witch.  Expecting the witch to be young he is surprised to see that Romy is an adult and running a theater program in a juvenile detention hall.  Romy is skeptical at first after many years of trying to tamp down her magic, not understading it, but Jake convinces her, with a little help from Franco and Carlas best Italian food ever, to work with Carla.  Carla is a fire witch herself and wants to teach Romy to be in control of her magic and not just spark and cause fires, which landed Romy in a lot of trouble when she was young.  Meanwhile Jake learns that is predecessor has been ignoring over 70 female witches because he didn't like the girls.  So it's Jake misssion to find and make sure these girls are ok.  Romy sees that Jake is a man to trust and soon finds herself falling in love.See that wasn't so bad was it?  I liked the story.  It was basically a love story + witches.  Most importantly, it made me think that maybe my fear of fantasy will eventually go away if I keep dipping my toes in the fantasy waters and this was the perfect starter book.  So if you are like me and despise fantasy, try To Love a Witch and see what you think.  I know I was surprised and you may be too!  4 stars!