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Witches Incorporated (Rogue Agent #2)
by
K.E. Mills
It's a case of espionage, skullduggery and serious unpleasantness
And it's also Gerald's first official government assignment. He's hunting down a deadly saboteur, and time is quickly running out. Old enemies and new combine forces to thwart him. Once again, innocent lives are on the line. He needs his friends. He can't do this alone.
But Princess Melissande and Reg have tro...more
And it's also Gerald's first official government assignment. He's hunting down a deadly saboteur, and time is quickly running out. Old enemies and new combine forces to thwart him. Once again, innocent lives are on the line. He needs his friends. He can't do this alone.
But Princess Melissande and Reg have tro...more
Paperback, 543 pages
Published
July 1st 2009
by Orbit
(first published 2009)
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I picked this up on a whim from the library. I am not familiar with this author and haven't read any of her other books, but this was a fun, quirky, saucy story and I enjoyed it.
Gerald Dunwoody is a rogue wizard who's trying to go straight by working with the official government wizarding organization. He's been given the simple mission to infiltrate a company where there are suspicious happenings and just watch. Unfortunately, nothing ever seems to be that simple for Gerald.
Especially with frie...more
Gerald Dunwoody is a rogue wizard who's trying to go straight by working with the official government wizarding organization. He's been given the simple mission to infiltrate a company where there are suspicious happenings and just watch. Unfortunately, nothing ever seems to be that simple for Gerald.
Especially with frie...more
Gerald has survived his first adventures and now is in a secret government agency. He's hunting a deadly saboteur, trying his best to appear harmless and he would love to have his friends helping him.
Princess Melissande and Reg the bird from the previous story are working with Monk Markham's sister Bibbie in a witching locum agency. They're not being very successful until they get caught up in a baking competition. They're helped by their social status. When they uncover the truth in the compet...more
Princess Melissande and Reg the bird from the previous story are working with Monk Markham's sister Bibbie in a witching locum agency. They're not being very successful until they get caught up in a baking competition. They're helped by their social status. When they uncover the truth in the compet...more
Needed more Gerald.
Melissande is interesting, but she gets too bossy and downright mean. I'd blame it on too much exposure to Reg, but she was that way before she met Reg. I guess I can blame it on Lional. Basically, the characters do a bit too much arguing with each other, and blaming each other, and not enough of being humble and saying thanks.
That said, I liked the way this book went, with the Rogue Agent job and idea. I wanted to wring the beaurocrats'/politicians' necks the whole way, but t...more
Melissande is interesting, but she gets too bossy and downright mean. I'd blame it on too much exposure to Reg, but she was that way before she met Reg. I guess I can blame it on Lional. Basically, the characters do a bit too much arguing with each other, and blaming each other, and not enough of being humble and saying thanks.
That said, I liked the way this book went, with the Rogue Agent job and idea. I wanted to wring the beaurocrats'/politicians' necks the whole way, but t...more
The second book in the Rogue Agent series is another fun romp. I have a special fondness for books that can make me smile. The last thing I want to do is spend my free time reading a book that is just as dark and depressing as reality and the Rogue Agent books certainly are not. In this tale, Mellisande, princess and former prime minister of a tiny colonial kingdom, is now living in the mother country. There she establishes a kind of witch-powered detective agency with her boyfriend’s sister, wh...more
Jul 30, 2011
Luke
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Second book in the Rogue Agent series.
This book takes place in the city of Ottosland and focuses more on the exploits of Melissande and her new friend Bibbie, sister to Monk from the previous book.
The story centers around Melissande and Bibbie's efforts to start thier own business, Witches Inc, a locum agency for those in need of magical services.
This is especially difficult for them being women. The Rouge Agent series being set in a time period akin to the late 1950's.
They're assisted in th...more
This book takes place in the city of Ottosland and focuses more on the exploits of Melissande and her new friend Bibbie, sister to Monk from the previous book.
The story centers around Melissande and Bibbie's efforts to start thier own business, Witches Inc, a locum agency for those in need of magical services.
This is especially difficult for them being women. The Rouge Agent series being set in a time period akin to the late 1950's.
They're assisted in th...more
I keep giving these four stars, and yet I think they are not four-star books, so what am I thinking? I'm thinking that when I'm not reading this book, I'm thinking about this book and planning when I will next get to read some of it. I'm thinking I read it a few pages at a time between making peanut-butter sandwiches and breaking up squabbles, wondering if I should put off the two pages I could read because I want to read more of it at one time. I'm thinking I really like the characters, even th...more
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Every now and then I find myself reading a book that I can't wait to finish so that I can read something a little 'meatier'
Witches Incorporated is one of these books. On the surface it is a spy novel involving wizards and and a secret agency, but there is also a second story involving a detective agency run by a princess, a witch and a talking bird(also royalty but bewitched many years ago)
Now doesn't that sound as if it could be very interesting?
I certainly thought so when I started it but I wa...more
Witches Incorporated is one of these books. On the surface it is a spy novel involving wizards and and a secret agency, but there is also a second story involving a detective agency run by a princess, a witch and a talking bird(also royalty but bewitched many years ago)
Now doesn't that sound as if it could be very interesting?
I certainly thought so when I started it but I wa...more
Genre: Urban High Fantasy/Mystery
The adventures continue. I enjoyed this novel as much as the first one (_The Accidental Sorcerer_). Again, the cover and blurb text is misleading - the tone of the book is not lighthearted. It's serious, but occasionally funny. This time Gerald shares the point-of-view spotlight with Mel (short for Her Royal Highness Princess Melissande of New Ottosland). Mills continues her habit of making her character’s lives difficult: At the end of the first book Mel traipse...more
The adventures continue. I enjoyed this novel as much as the first one (_The Accidental Sorcerer_). Again, the cover and blurb text is misleading - the tone of the book is not lighthearted. It's serious, but occasionally funny. This time Gerald shares the point-of-view spotlight with Mel (short for Her Royal Highness Princess Melissande of New Ottosland). Mills continues her habit of making her character’s lives difficult: At the end of the first book Mel traipse...more
Oh. Dear. God. There is such a thing as characters who get amusingly distracted and carry on witty conversations with each other, and there are characters who spend three pages going back and forth on a single point while trying to get into a car, and constantly interrupting each other. Honestly, all the characters spend so much time telling each of the other characters to shut up and listen to them, or to stop arguing that if you cut all that out, the actual plot would have filled out a short s...more
Plot summary: Six months after the events of The Accidental Sorcerer, Gerald Dunwoody is on his first assignment as a janitor. Meanwhile, Princess Melissande has gone into business with the sister of Gerald's best friend, Monk. Melissande and Emmerabiblia operate Witches Incorporated, a one stop shop for magical problems. It's not long before Witches Incorporated is offered a job that puts them into the direct line of Gerald's investigation, and brewing disaster.
Thoughts: I didn't love it QUITE...more
Thoughts: I didn't love it QUITE...more
Firstly, this book was much more grammatically correct than the first one, for which I am endlessly thankful.
This was an interesting and risky rake for a sequel. Melissande, who played a supporting role in The Accidental Sorcerer, and Bibbie, who doesn't even appear in the first book at all, are the main characters in this story. At first, I wasn't too thrilled that Gerald got thrust into sidelines, although I was quite happy that Monk played a much more major role in this story. And I am still...more
This was an interesting and risky rake for a sequel. Melissande, who played a supporting role in The Accidental Sorcerer, and Bibbie, who doesn't even appear in the first book at all, are the main characters in this story. At first, I wasn't too thrilled that Gerald got thrust into sidelines, although I was quite happy that Monk played a much more major role in this story. And I am still...more
Witches Incorporated by K.E. Mills
Coming as it did after reading The Hunger Games, K.E. Mills' novel Witches Incorporated, the 2nd book of Rogue Agent, was quite a shock. After the break-neck speed of Suzanne Collins bulldozer fiction, the blunderings and the continual twittering of the protagonists in Witches Incorporated seemed set on slowing the advance of the story to a snail's pace. Of course, the characters were meant to be funny and endearing, and in a way they were. Hilarious even at tim...more
Coming as it did after reading The Hunger Games, K.E. Mills' novel Witches Incorporated, the 2nd book of Rogue Agent, was quite a shock. After the break-neck speed of Suzanne Collins bulldozer fiction, the blunderings and the continual twittering of the protagonists in Witches Incorporated seemed set on slowing the advance of the story to a snail's pace. Of course, the characters were meant to be funny and endearing, and in a way they were. Hilarious even at tim...more
May 03, 2012
Minna
rated it
2 of 5 stars
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review of another edition
Shelves:
fantasy,
feminism-and-women-literature
I might be damaged from too much Game of Thrones watching, but I'm getting really fed up with this ongoing trend in fantasy literature that women have to be seen as inferior and weaker to men because the story is supposed to take place in a time before time or some other earlier earthlike time where women were under the pressure of the patriarchal boot. This book is obviously trying to highlight the issue, but I'm not feeling sympathetic even as a woman when the heroines are constantly fighting...more
I agree with other reviews that this one doesn't develop the excellent base of the first novel as well as it could have.
The plot is reasonable enough as a frame to hang things on.
Gerald moves along nicely, but Mel and Bibbie are mostly annoying and much of their dialogue could have been cut.
Reg is annoying to the point of grating, and isn't really given much to contribute to make it worthwhile.
Errol is overdrawn, although to Mills' credit that becomes part of the plot later.
Sir Alec is simi...more
The plot is reasonable enough as a frame to hang things on.
Gerald moves along nicely, but Mel and Bibbie are mostly annoying and much of their dialogue could have been cut.
Reg is annoying to the point of grating, and isn't really given much to contribute to make it worthwhile.
Errol is overdrawn, although to Mills' credit that becomes part of the plot later.
Sir Alec is simi...more
I think I may like this, the second book in the Rogue Agent series, better than the first. The first book was setting up the situation, but then this one was more of a fun adventure that got to play with the characters and situations I fell in love with in the first book. Our hero Gerald has been tested and trained to be a kind of magical secret agent, and while he's off doing the testing and training and then going off on his first assignment, he hasn't been allowed to see his friends. In his a...more
I read the first book in this series, Accidental Sorcerer, and didn't love it. But, it had some promise and I was hoping that the series would take a turn for the better. Alas, this has to be one of the most annoying books I've read in a while. If you are someone who enjoys listening to two girls and a female bird incessantly nattering away at each other, then maybe this is the book for you. Otherwise, if you can imagine a fingernail screeching down a chalkboard, that is what the conversations f...more
I didn't like this 2nd book in the Rogue Agent series nearly as much as I liked the 1st book (The Accidental Sorcerer). This book focuses more on the girls - Melissande, Monk's sister Bibbie, and Reg, as the founders of Witches Incorporated. It sort of reminded me of Nancy Drew, as everyone seems to have a case and are working on solving some mystery or other. "The Case Of The Biscuit Thief." The few times Gerald does pop up, he's not nearly as lovable as he was in the 1st book, though he's stil...more
While I liked the debut book of this series more, I still enjoyed this book. The previous entry into the series was much more epic, and I tended to like the characters more. This book focused on a character I didn't enjoy from the first novel, and there was really no big villain. It played out more like a mystery novel where the characters have magical powers. The characters were still really strong, and the goofy nature played out well, though the tone had some problems when switching between t...more
Basic Plot: Gerald takes on his first janitorial assignment, while Melissande and Bibbie start their own business up. Oddly their first case intersects with Gerald's, dropping the ladies into top-secret business.
I understand logical progression of character, and I completely understood the changes Gerald went through in this book. They made sense in light of the events of the first book. All the same, though, I wanted to like this book a lot more than I ended up liking it. It was actually hard t...more
I understand logical progression of character, and I completely understood the changes Gerald went through in this book. They made sense in light of the events of the first book. All the same, though, I wanted to like this book a lot more than I ended up liking it. It was actually hard t...more
The second book in the "Rogue Agent" series, this one's not quite as good as the first. But it was engaging enough that I not only finished it but also bought the third in the series. Make of that what you will.
It needed more of Gerald, the first book's main character. Melissande and Bibbie, two of the secondary characters from the first book, are more of a focus here and aren't really strong enough to carry it. I'd have liked more of how Melissande came to Ottosland, etc.
As I said in my review...more
It needed more of Gerald, the first book's main character. Melissande and Bibbie, two of the secondary characters from the first book, are more of a focus here and aren't really strong enough to carry it. I'd have liked more of how Melissande came to Ottosland, etc.
As I said in my review...more
Absolutely loved this book. It's been a while since I read the first in the series, but the book soon had me remembering the plot of the first one.
I love the characters in the book, the fact that it combines 'modern' times with magic, and the subject of womans suffrage running through it.
Plus the narrative is engaging and the plot quite fun. It's a bit of a detective story so it's nice to guess 'who dunnit'. There was also one moment that had me close to tears, so it must have had me caring ab...more
I love the characters in the book, the fact that it combines 'modern' times with magic, and the subject of womans suffrage running through it.
Plus the narrative is engaging and the plot quite fun. It's a bit of a detective story so it's nice to guess 'who dunnit'. There was also one moment that had me close to tears, so it must have had me caring ab...more
I only gave this book three stars beacuse, while it was good, I had no problem putting it down and completely forgetting about it. I think my main problem was with Melissande, who is a really bossy and pushy character. I didn't mind it so much in the first book when Gerald had the main POV, but this book focused mainly on Melissande. I'd rather have read about Gerald and what he was up to, but he only got a few chapters in this book. It was still funny, and still an interesting world, but I was...more
Jun 03, 2011
Carol
rated it
3 of 5 stars
Recommends it for:
fans of Patricia Wrede
Shelves:
fantasy,
young-adult
Three and a half stars; rating it upwards due to it coming together in the last half of the book. Feels like a young adult book; it's overall style reminds me a great deal of Patricia Wrede's Dealing With Dragons stories. Overall minimal world-building, with a main focus on how characters interact with each other--lots of jousting dialogue. A common epithet is "Saint Snodgrass," so you quickly get a sense of the silly. I picked this up on a whim, not having read the first book. One of the initia...more
The first time around I marked this book down as a Five Stars. Now, having spent considerable time on here and having rated many a book, I feel that my standards have been raised. As a result, this book is not five stars anymore, but rather a more accurate Four Stars.
What I love about these books is that it's just pure fun. Sure there is some anxious moments, there are trying questions and the characters do get put the emotional wringer, but somehow it is just pure happy entertainment. You do n...more
What I love about these books is that it's just pure fun. Sure there is some anxious moments, there are trying questions and the characters do get put the emotional wringer, but somehow it is just pure happy entertainment. You do n...more
I’d reasonably enjoyed the first book and had been given a copy of the last in the trilogy so had to read the second one.
I was quite disappointed with this one, it didn’t live up to the potential that I thought the story had. The focus was mostly on the characters of Melissande, Bibbi and Reg, rather than on Gerald who I thought was supposed to be the main one! The characters as a whole are rather simplistic, there’s not a great deal to them at all. Out of the female characters, Bibbi was the m...more
I was quite disappointed with this one, it didn’t live up to the potential that I thought the story had. The focus was mostly on the characters of Melissande, Bibbi and Reg, rather than on Gerald who I thought was supposed to be the main one! The characters as a whole are rather simplistic, there’s not a great deal to them at all. Out of the female characters, Bibbi was the m...more
This is a sequel to The Apprentice Wizard which I liked. This one was good too, but in an odd way. I was in the mood for a light book, which this was, sort of. The style and dialogue and even the plot tends to be light, but the reactions of the characters is not. It is like watching James Bond and then having all the spies agonize over the killing. It throws you out of the story and makes you see that all the violence is bad and a normal person couldn't jump into being a spy without some deep so...more
I so enjoyed the first book in the series and was happy to find the second book was also very good. Second books in a series are transitional and this one had to take time to setup the new situation, but once the plot was firing it was firing on all cylinders. The major characters from the first book are now semi-working together and the same type of humor is evident.
This series is kind of a cross between the craft of Diane Winne Jones and Sir Terry Pratchett and I don't make that comparison lig...more
This series is kind of a cross between the craft of Diane Winne Jones and Sir Terry Pratchett and I don't make that comparison lig...more
Significantly lighter in tone than the first book in the serious, I didn't enjoy this one *quite* as much, due to what felt a bit like fluffy filler in the middle. That said, I adore these characters, especially Reg, the witty, cantankerous witch-in-bird-form, and Gerald, a rogue wizard who gives the story much more depth and darkness. The humor is delightful, and there's a good bit of drama, as well--the tone shifts often, but it's definitely growing on me.
I'm really looking forward to Book 3,...more
I'm really looking forward to Book 3,...more
I really liked the first in this series much better. The women of Witches, Inc. just seemed to be a bunch of bickering girls. The whole idea that a government agent would share top secret information with his friends because they henpecked him is just beyond belief. I was just really bothered by the whole thing.
The plot regarding the saboteur was fine.
I definitely liked the parts with Gerald more than the parts with the witches.
The plot regarding the saboteur was fine.
I definitely liked the parts with Gerald more than the parts with the witches.
A very fun, fairly light read. While the main characters' bickering occasionally got a bit tedious, it's usually entertaining and occasionally really funny- plus, it's a nice contrast to some books, like Novik's dragon series, in which no one ever bickers at all. I found this one better than the first in the serious because the tone was more consistent; in the first one, a swerve into Very Serious happened abruptly, and I found it disconcerting.
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"K.E. Mills" is a pseudonym of "Karen Miller"
I was born in Vancouver, Canada, and came to Australia with my parents when I was 2. I think. Dad’s an Aussie, Mum’s English, go figure. Talk about Fate and Destiny. But three passports come in handy.
I’ve always lived in Sydney, except when I didn’t. After graduating with a BA Communications from the then Institute of Technology (now University) a few y...more
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I was born in Vancouver, Canada, and came to Australia with my parents when I was 2. I think. Dad’s an Aussie, Mum’s English, go figure. Talk about Fate and Destiny. But three passports come in handy.
I’ve always lived in Sydney, except when I didn’t. After graduating with a BA Communications from the then Institute of Technology (now University) a few y...more
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