Review: "Eat, drink, and be merry,” I said. “For tomorrow you may die."
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 01 8, 2014
Phaedra Michaels is a mental health therapist in Dismal, Alabama. She cares about her patients, unlike the people she works with. I liked her a lot. She recently bought a house called The Black Magnolia. She is 33-years-old and divorced. “I wore baggy clothes because I’d put on fifteen pounds since the divorce. I put on fifteen pounds because I ate bricks of raw cookie dough when I was depressed and drank at least two beers every night. We all have our negative coping skills.” She gets a package in the mail that holds a spell book. Phaedra decides to try a love spell she finds in the book. “It had been a welcome release from my usual lonely self-loathing and self-deprecation.” But as everyone who reads fairy tales and watches Once Upon a Time knows, all magic comes with a price. And if I have learned anything from all the books I've read and movies I've watched it is never start a spell unless you know how to stop it. Mickey Mouse had that problem in The Sorcerer's Apprentice in Fantasia. I seriously loved this book. The writing is really good. It is so funny and clever. The characters are very interesting and sympathetic. “What fun was there in honesty when the lies were so much better?” Phaedra meets some truly interesting people, demons, immortals, oracles, witches and cranky gods.  “He wasn’t lost in a love spell and he wasn’t a Baptist.” The pacing is good. I really liked Phaedra a lot and wanted her to succeed. Loved it. Such a good book. 5 stars.