A Little Night Magic

A Little Night Magic

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In New York Times bestselling author Lucy March's new novel, Olivia Kiskey needs a change. She’s been working at the same Nodaway Falls, New York, waffle house since she was a teenager; not a lot of upward mobility there. She’s been in love with Tobias, the cook, for the last four years; he’s never made a move. Every Saturday night, she gathers with her three best friends—...more
Paperback, 1st Edition, 320 pages
Published January 31st 2012 by St. Martin's Griffin
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Maja
A Little Night Magic is an adorable, fluffy, rainy day comfort read. It’s not exactly urban fantasy, but it’s not paranormal romance either. It reminded me a lot of Maybe This Time by Jennifer Crusie: a light sense of humor, so many fabulous characters and just a touch of paranormal to make things more interesting. If I had to describe this book with just one word, cute is what I’d say.

Olivia is a small town waitress. She spends her days serving waffles, hanging out with her three best friends...more
Nancy
The story starts out reasonably strong enough. Liv is a regular girl working as a waitress in a small town. She is in love with an inaccessible man named Tobias who will not return her affection. She makes a rash decision to move to Europe. Just then, a mysterious stranger appears and throws a dirty sock filled with something that I unbinds Liv's day magic. Now she is in danger as someone wants to steal her magic for making glorified party balloon animals. From then on, the story is a three star...more
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I enjoyed this so, so much. I think I read the entire thing with a smile on my face, or actually giggling (out loud!)at what the characters said. This was exactly what I was looking for after such an emotionally wrenching read, like the one I just finished ( The Legacy of Eden by Nelle Davy). This is the perfect kind of bubblegum book - tasteful, not too lengthy and just so adorable. As soon as I closed the metaphoric cover (as this was an e-galley)...more
Alisha
I tend to love books with magical realism in it and that's why I was drawn to A Little Night Magic. Now, I'm a huge fan of Sarah Addison Allen, so I had assumed that this book was going to be a little bit like her books. But A Little Night Magic wasn't...at all. In fact, I found myself plodding through it while simultaneously daydreaming about all the fabulous books I could be reading instead of this one.

The problem with A Little Night Magic is that it is all fluff. Now, I love me some fluff and...more
Linda Baker
Olivia Kiskey has been waitressing at Crazy Cousin Betty's Waffle House in tiny Nodaway Falls, NY since high school and needs a change. Especially since she has been in love with Tobias, the night cook, for years. When she finally made a move on him he rejected her- kindly, but still a rejection. Liv plans to sell her house and backpack around Europe, perhaps never to return to Nodaway. Before leaving work one night, a woman named Davina shows up at the waffle house, throws what looks like a gym...more
Olga Godim
This book is different from the previous novels by the same author, Lani Diane Rich. I picked it up because I love most of her other novels. They all have a light, fluffy feel to them, with frequent infusions of humor, and I wanted an easy, frivolous read, but this book didn’t conform to my expectations. It felt darker and deeper. Perhaps, that’s why Rich wrote it under a nom de plume. Personally, I like her lighthearted stuff better but I’ll try to be objective and not make a comparison with th...more
Desiree reilly
I RECEIVE THIS BOOK FROM A BLOG HOP AND I CAN SAY IT IS TOP 5 BOOK THE COVER IS VERY INTERESTING AND THEN THE PEOPLE IN THE BOOK GET TO BE GREAT FRIENDS. HERE IS THE 4 FRIENDS FORM SCHOOL ALL GROWN UP ONE WORKS
IN CRAZY BETTY"S RESTAURANT OLIVIA. THEN THERE IS PEACH WHO LIVE NEXT TO LIV AND THEN THERE MILLIE AND STACY

THE FOUR GIRLS ARE BEST FRIENDS AND THEN THEY HAVE CONFESSION ONE DAY A WEEK AND THEN THIS IS WHEN THE GIRLS GET TO TELL EACH OTHER WHAT HAPPEN LIV TOLD THE GIRLS SHE HAD HAD PLANNIN...more
Natalie
So....I tend to stroll through the book ailes at Target once a week to see if there is anything new out. I usually bypass the new author section because I just miss it. Well, I found this one in that section and thought the cover was cute. So....I read the back and had to take it home.

You're introduced to the lead Olivia (or Liv as her friends call her) in a small town working in a small town restaurant as a waitress. She feels her life is nothing special and she's tired of that. So she takes t...more
Katie
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Kater Cheek
There are a lot of very likeable elements in this urban fantasy. It starts out swiftly. Liv, the small-town protagonist, has just bought a plane ticket to Europe. She's tired of her small-town life, and tired of being in love with Tobias, who doesn't seem to return her affections. Then, a stranger named Davina hits her with a stinky gym sock, which awakens Liv's latent magical powers.

Let's start with the romance. I found the romance charming and believable. Liv loves Tobias despite his faults. H...more
Jessica(WonderlandReviews)
Through the entire store the floor is covered in a simple standard checker board pattern. And yet there is one square that is out of place, one square that is light blue in color and one square that Liv was told as a child, that had the ability to grant wishes.

At one time she even believed in the power it could have possessed, it granted her the things she wished on when she stood on that one square, but when it didn't grant her wish to save her mother from the icy grips of the Grim as she was...more
Sharon Redfern
Olivia is working at the Crazy Cousin Betty Waffle House, mopping the floor over the supposedly magic blue sparkly tile, when a woman comes in who will change Olivia’s life. Olivia is working with her unrequited love, Tobias, when Davina comes in to get waffles. Tobias leaves and Olivia ends up unconscious on the diner floor with Davina nowhere in sight. Shortly thereafter, Liv starts manifesting magical powers-she can make inanimate objects come alive as funky creatures (like the coffee mug Gib...more
Vicky
This is a cute, light read that is great for a cold, snowy day (which is what it was when I read it). There’s a little romance, a little suspense, a lot of angst on the part of the main character, humor, and a touch of magic. There were some sweet awww moments, but not too many, and some cringe moments, all blended together to make a nice read.

The main character, Olivia, is a waitress in a small town diner. She’s in love with the cook, Tobias, who has become her friend, but she wants more than...more
Solaire
I won an early review copy from SheLovesHotReads.com and have just now, in real time, finished reading it.
Olivia Kiskey is not the usual perfect beautiful woman who suddenly has great and awesome magic powers, and plans to defeat the darkness alongside the perfect man she falls in love with. Olivia Kiskey is a waitress in a diner that has a magic linoleum square, in a quaint small town. She's also a little pudgy, loves eating waffles, and wants a change in her life.
She's proactive and a little t...more
Eileen
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I received a copy of "A Little Night Magic" by Lucy March in the mail right before the holiday weekend, and once I started reading it, I didn't want to put it down.

Olivia "Liv" Kiskey lives in Nodaway Falls and works as a waitress at Crazy Cousin Betty's Waffle House. I like Liv. She is someone a lot of us can identity with: she has girlfriends she loves, but who sometimes make her mad; she loves a man even though he apparently doesn't share her feelings;...more
Stephanie
Full Review and more at: Fangs, Wands and Fairy Dust December 6, 2011



There's a "magic square" in the linoleum tile of the waffle shop where Olivia works. She almost believes the square is magic. As an adult, though she learns magic is much more than a piece of linoleum.

In turns humorous, romantic, sad, scary and dark, this new book from Lucy March kept me up reading into the morning. Magic, inventively imagined and described pulls up into Liv's life in the form of a new friend. For a young wom...more
Nikki Wilde
Where to begin. Ah, at the beginning. It started with Liv being fed up. She's bored and sick of being in love with a man that turned her down. Yeah, she's getting mixed signals but he still keeps her at arms length. She wants excitement not the same ol' samd ol'. So she buys a ticket to Europe. Not realizing that her life is about to get turned upside down starting with Davina who throws a dirty gym sock at her. Too bad that's not all she threw. What Liv doesn't know is that she's magic.

I won't...more
Jacob Proffitt
So. Much. Stupid. There's enough stupid in this book to supply a week-long political convention. Worse, if it were just the stupid, I wouldn't have hated it quite so much. Unfortunately, it also has a complete lack of moral compass that works as a compounding factor with the stupid so you end up with one big bundle of frustrating asininity.

Here's the thing: when someone who is clearly evil is trying to kill you in order to gain still more power which you know with absolute certainty they will us...more
Kate
A "Little Night Magic" is an enjoyable enough romp, but not something that's likely to keep you on the edge of your seat.

The plot borrows pretty heavily from your standard "paranormal surprise" grab bag: Olivia, a waitress at Crazy Cousin Betty's Waffle House, finds herself the unexpected possessor of newly-released magical power. Like most modern, "accessible" heroines, she's a little chubby, a little awkward, and the best friend, not the pretty girl. Fed up with waitressing (and her one-way c...more
Sheryl
OK, maybe this wasn't exactly 5 stars, but it was definitely 4-1/2 and since I can't give half stars, I bumped it up to five. This book is a little bit chick lit-- 28 yr. old single woman with 3 best friends, living in a small town where everyone knows everyone else's business, told in first person narrative (but without the sarcasm and snark)-- mixed with a healthy dose of magic. Not that I don't love the sarcasm, snark and attitude found in many chick lit and urban fantasy books these days (be...more
Elizabeth
Sometimes I get so tired of witches and magic and all these other required creatures in an urban fantasy book. Yes, I like a lot of these books. But does everything have to be supernatural any more? Can't a really good book be written just about people people??

Having said that, I got sucked into listening to the audio book of this one because audible told me if I liked such and such books I would be sure to like "A Little Night Magic" by Lucy March. AND it was narrated by Amanda Ronconi and I do...more
Jenn O'Brien
The concept behind this story is interesting and I really like the main character’s type of magic (love Gibson the teacup bunny!), but I had a hard time making this story stick. It is kind of like when you go into a restaurant really craving one item, when they tell you are out of that item, then nothing else on the menu sounds appealing. I think I was just hoping for more out of this book.

There was no real character development apart from a basic description - who are these people, what are the...more
Kimberly
I received this from winning a contest on sheloveshotreads.com in hopes I would review it before it has hit shelves.

Olivia wants to change her life. She is in love with Tobias but she believes he doesn't love her back. So she decides to leave for Europe. And then she finds out she is magical. She then finds out she is being hunted for her power. And then the town people start changing and she knows she has to make it right before she leaves (if she leaves).

I am about half way through and the thi...more
Diane
This started off on a high note. Liv is leaving her small town to go back-packing in Europe. She's done with pining for Tobias since she made a move on him recently as was rebuffed. At this point I was cheering her on and filled with girl power vibes.

Then Devia comes in the restaurant late one night and through a series of other events, Liv discovers she is a Magical and that someone is trying to kill her as well as harassing her friends.

Her friends: Liv and 3 other women grew up together and...more
Dee
Feb 23, 2012 Dee rated it 4 of 5 stars Recommends it for: people who like Molly Harper
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If I hadn't seen this book advertised on audible when I was scrolling through new releases, I would have probably never heard of it, or picked it up, which would have been unfortunately. Lucy March managed to create a contemporary paranormal romance, without using the whole "mated theme" that seems to show up in the vast majority of PNR's nowadays (not that I don't like that theme, it just gets a bit old at times). Anyways, the story is about Olivia, a waitress at CCB's a diner in New...more
Jennie
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Caryn
Mar 02, 2013 Caryn rated it 4 of 5 stars Recommends it for: fans of Jennifer Crusie
A Little Night Magic, narrated by Amanda Ronconi, was a fabulous listen. It was funny, sweet and enjoyable. Ronconi's interpretation was perfect for the story, with only one small, off note (she mispronounced "burying the lead", a newspaper saying for not leading with the most important part, as 'burying the led" - I use this saying a lot so it distracted me to hear it like that). I wouldn't have bought this book based on the summary but Audible.com had a great deal and I took a chance. Based on...more
Maniai
My copy of A Little Night Magic came from NetGalley, so there were some formatting issues here and there which I'm confident were cleaned up before final copy.

A more detailed review is pending, but for now, the short rundown of my review:

I really enjoyed this story. A LOT. The plot definitely hooked me, I didn't mind the 1st person POV (which just doesn't always work, and is kind of an overdone gimmick lately, imo). I actually had very few criticisms, but here they are:

-The one sex-scene felt k...more
Petula Darling
This book grabbed me right from the start. I connected to the main character right away (a rarity for me), and I was all excited to listen to the glorious story that I would eventually stamp with five stars.
And then things went awry.

I have numerous small quibbles, but the main issue I have with the book is that the protagonist went from being fairly intelligent to plunging deep into the depths of inexcusable idiocy within the span of just a few chapters. Not only did she remain ignorant of thing...more
Jac (For Love and Books)
I found A Little Night Magic a few months ago on sale on Audible.com, I saw that Amanda Ronconi was the narrator and so I snatched it up! Then, I promptly forgot about it, as I had about six books ahead of it on my queue for listening. Today, I had an eleven hour car drive and realized I didn't have anything to listen too, so I hunted through my audible account and decided on this one! I'm glad I did, it kept my attention for the entire drive and I finished it about three blocks from home!

The b...more
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Lucy March is the split personality of NYT and USA Today bestselling author Lani Diane Rich. In 2010, she started writing her popular blog, A Year and Change, which documented the last fifteen months before her fortieth birthday. On her blog, Lucy worked through personal issues involving her divorce, her sense of self-worth, and her mother; she developed a following that eventually became the Bett...more
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