Review: Great Read
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 05 24, 2012
Having loved the first book in the series, this installment shouted "Read me!" I'm so glad I did.I loved Cat and Lex in Blood, Smoke and Mirrors and was thrilled to get to review Bewitched, Blooded and Bewildered.As you'd expect in a sequel, there's less world building in this story and therefore who is who and what the rules are may be less clear for the first time reader, but if you've read the first one that shouldn't be a problem. And if you haven't read Blood, Smoke and Mirrors, you might want to.Cat has developed and continues to develop skills in both fighting and magic department--skills she definitely needs both as an unwilling member of Zach's "Team Evil" and Titania. As a relative newbie in both positions, there are more experienced/better qualified beings who think they have a right to both spots. Cat would happily give away her blood-bond with Zach, but it isn't quite that simple. All this makes Cat's marriage to her soul mate, the studly, ex-guardian Lex... complicated. Which sends them on a trip to Hell--literally. While the solution to some of the problems did come a bit easy, it worked for me.I love how Ms. Bachar blurs the lines of good and evil in her characters. Like real people, no one is just one thing. Everyone has motives and, happily, in this story, the motives make sense. I particularly appreciated how "good" people in Bewitched, Blooded and Bewildered occasionally make bad decisions, and how sometimes the best intentions have bad results. Best of all, "bad" creatures can actually be good, or at least better than those labeled good. It makes for a complicated, yet realistic world. Very fun to read.Ms. Bachar does a fabulous job creating three-dimensional, quirky, secondary characters with unexpected loyalties which I especially enjoyed.Keep `em coming, Ms. Bachar, I'll have my eye out for future installments.Originally posted at LAS Romance Reviews