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    <![CDATA[And you think <em>magic</em> is complicated?    <p>Once more Wren Valere's game plan has taken an unexpected direction. She'd agreed to a bargain with one supersecret magic-watching outfit to protect her partner and herself on their last job. But now the Silence is trying to wedge them apart.    <p>On the one hand, ever since she and Sergei began to talk about their &quot;relationship&quot; things have been tricky. On the other, though . . . Well, no one better try to stand between Wren and Sergei when danger is near!    <p>So now they are off to Italy in search of a possessed parchment (or maybe not possessed -- all they know is that whoever reads it disappears). Still, when compared to what's going on at home (lonejacks banding together, a jealous demon, tracking bugs needing fumigation, etc.) maybe disappearing won't be so bad . . .     <p>As if!</p></p></p></p>]]>
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  <read_at>Sat Sep 29 22:38:16 -0700 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[<em>Preface: I haven't read the first book in this series or the short stories that introduced the characters, but that didn't seem to be a problem at all. From the descriptions, each book stands pretty well on its own, but this book does start up some meta-plot that could continue through the next book...</em><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6914846">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[And you think <em>magic</em> is complicated?    <p>Once more Wren Valere's game plan has taken an unexpected direction. She'd agreed to a bargain with one supersecret magic-watching outfit to protect her partner and herself on their last job. But now the Silence is trying to wedge them apart.    <p>On the one hand, ever since she and Sergei began to talk about their &quot;relationship&quot; things have been tricky. On the other, though . . . Well, no one better try to stand between Wren and Sergei when danger is near!    <p>So now they are off to Italy in search of a possessed parchment (or maybe not possessed -- all they know is that whoever reads it disappears). Still, when compared to what's going on at home (lonejacks banding together, a jealous demon, tracking bugs needing fumigation, etc.) maybe disappearing won't be so bad . . .     <p>As if!</p></p></p></p>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[Valere signed a contract with Silence, a secret organization trying to contain what they view as evil in the world. She needed the monthly retainer. Now, Silence calls the debt and sends her on a mission to retrieve a parchment. Sounds easy except everyone who reads the parchment disappears.<br/>  ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/55018975">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[And you think <em>magic</em> is complicated?    <p>Once more Wren Valere's game plan has taken an unexpected direction. She'd agreed to a bargain with one supersecret magic-watching outfit to protect her partner and herself on their last job. But now the Silence is trying to wedge them apart.    <p>On the one hand, ever since she and Sergei began to talk about their &quot;relationship&quot; things have been tricky. On the other, though . . . Well, no one better try to stand between Wren and Sergei when danger is near!    <p>So now they are off to Italy in search of a possessed parchment (or maybe not possessed -- all they know is that whoever reads it disappears). Still, when compared to what's going on at home (lonejacks banding together, a jealous demon, tracking bugs needing fumigation, etc.) maybe disappearing won't be so bad . . .     <p>As if!</p></p></p></p>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm confused. I know I've read more of this series than one other book, but I know I hadn't read this one, and had no icky feeling of things out of sequence. ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Liked it a lot better than the second book, the writing was more cohesive and the characters are beginning to further in their development.]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[And you think <em>magic</em> is complicated?    <p>Once more Wren Valere's game plan has taken an unexpected direction. She'd agreed to a bargain with one supersecret magic-watching outfit to protect her partner and herself on their last job. But now the Silence is trying to wedge them apart.    <p>On the one hand, ever since she and Sergei began to talk about their &quot;relationship&quot; things have been tricky. On the other, though . . . Well, no one better try to stand between Wren and Sergei when danger is near!    <p>So now they are off to Italy in search of a possessed parchment (or maybe not possessed -- all they know is that whoever reads it disappears). Still, when compared to what's going on at home (lonejacks banding together, a jealous demon, tracking bugs needing fumigation, etc.) maybe disappearing won't be so bad . . .     <p>As if!</p></p></p></p>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[not quite as good as the first one, but still an enjoyable read as the author introduces more mystery in this one.]]></body>
    
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