Review: The Magic continues again, but...
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 12 28, 2013
I wish it could be 4 1/2 stars... Debora Geary hits another out of the ballpark. As Ms. Geary states, you can't just pick up one of her books and start reading. But that's not hard. Read the first in the series, "A Modern Witch" and you're hooked and want to devour the others.In "An Unlikely Witch" Ms. Geary finally tells the story we've been waiting for from early in the book:  no spoilers here :) It's a great story with all the Geary hallmarks. Characters we know and love, surprises, a new character or two. And, as I said, we finally get an answer - although the storyline is likely to continue and grow.Here comes the "but"... Maybe her fans are rushing Ms. Geary to produce. This book felt like 2 plots that are loosely woven together. Either one could stand alone. There was a lot of jumping from 'the unlikely witch' and big Holiday plans. Ms. Geary tries to tie them together, using the Holiday plans to show support for the main story. To top it off, she uses this to bring in new characters. Mix it all together and you get a cauldron of confusion. It took two careful readings to sort out which part was one story and which was the other.A wonderful read and certainly worth my time. Like most of her other books I'll read it again to get a "Witch Central" fix. The book just seemed a little jumbled. Maybe we, as fans, need to stop the pressure to produce 3 - 4 books a year and let Ms. Geary have enough time to write each story as their own.