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Witch Fire (Elemental Witches #1)
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Anya Bast (Goodreads Author)
After a chaotic marriage and a rough divorce, all Mira Hoskins wants is stability and normality. But when sexy Jack McAllister enters her life, she discovers that what you want isn't always what you need.
Jack is a powerful witch with the ability to command fire and is anything but normal. As the head of a security detail for The Coven, a national organization that govern...more
Jack is a powerful witch with the ability to command fire and is anything but normal. As the head of a security detail for The Coven, a national organization that govern...more
Mass Market Paperback, 278 pages
Published
June 5th 2007
by Berkley
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TDF Pamela (The Discriminating Fangirl)
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I really, really enjoyed this book. It is incredibly sexy, with a lot of very well-written sex scenes that don't feel at all gratuitous. The plot kept my interest until the very end, and the romance developed at a very nice pace; it started off with sex and attraction and grew into something more. I appreciate that kind of romance a lot more than the love-at-first-sight or soulmates clichés. The characters are nicely-developed (though I would like to have seen a bit more about Jack, the main...more
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This was a fun, sexy, quick read with some refreshingly original details.
Mira is a waitress six months out from her messy divorce. Her parents are long dead and she was raised by her godmother, Annie. According to her parents' last wishes, she was raised in ignorance of her true heritage: she is a witch, powerful in the element of air, the rarest of the four elements.
Then handsome fire witch Jack McAllister comes crashing into her life, rescuing her from an attempted abdu...more
Mira is a waitress six months out from her messy divorce. Her parents are long dead and she was raised by her godmother, Annie. According to her parents' last wishes, she was raised in ignorance of her true heritage: she is a witch, powerful in the element of air, the rarest of the four elements.
Then handsome fire witch Jack McAllister comes crashing into her life, rescuing her from an attempted abdu...more
I had a hard time with the pace of the book. It wasn't awful - but I felt like the "parts" weren't really balanced correctly and that the end was a little rushed and unsatisfying in some ways. That aside I enjoyed the book very much. I like the main character Mira for the most part (although you would think having grown up Wiccan she would be a little more open to Magick than she was) and I really liked her manhunk Jack. The story was enjoyable and I had a hard time stopping at an end ...more
There is an audience for Anya Bast's Witch Fire, but unfortunately I am not it.
Here's the Not My Cup of Tea part: this is one of those paranormal romances that's very heavy on the sex and fairly light on the plot, and for that matter, fairly light on the romance. I knew Bast had lost me when I'd gotten sixty or seventy pages into the book and knew little more besides that 1) our heroine Mira was an air witch, 2) our hero Jack was a fire witch who had been surreptitiously keeping watc...more
Here's the Not My Cup of Tea part: this is one of those paranormal romances that's very heavy on the sex and fairly light on the plot, and for that matter, fairly light on the romance. I knew Bast had lost me when I'd gotten sixty or seventy pages into the book and knew little more besides that 1) our heroine Mira was an air witch, 2) our hero Jack was a fire witch who had been surreptitiously keeping watc...more
The main characters were well written and endearing, but the secondary characters could have used a bit more development, especially the bud guys. Overall though, it was a fun, quick read, and fairly imaginitive.
Inara
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Witches are living incognito among us… (snickers). They´re not like fairy-tale witches of course but every witch has the gift of a certain element (air, fire, earth, water) which defines her or his powers. Jack McAllister is a fire-witch and assigned to watch over Mira Hoskins a young woman who is working as a waitress and desperately trying to get a grip on her life again after her divorce. What she doesn´t know is that she´s a very powerful air-witch, a legacy of her dead parents who didn´t wa...more
Steamy. This is the foremost thought it my head as I think back to finishing this book last week. I actually really enjoyed this concept of wiccan's with abilities. Most of novels that have witches as their paranormal creature of choice don't interest me, but this had a druid/witch feel. I look forward to reading the next in this series, but I've heard nothing but horrible things about it. The sex scenes (remarkably vivid) meshed well into the story and its been awhile since I could say tha...more
I'm going all Star Search and giving this book "4 and a quarter stars", because this is my review and I can do what I want.
Great little paranormal romance. Short; only 278 pages. And very steamy. With a capital S. But there was also a good story. Simple but interesting world building, just the way I like it. And no one wore leather pants. I highly recommend this book to fans of the genre. I have the next two books of the series safely tucked away in my little book cabinet a...more
Great little paranormal romance. Short; only 278 pages. And very steamy. With a capital S. But there was also a good story. Simple but interesting world building, just the way I like it. And no one wore leather pants. I highly recommend this book to fans of the genre. I have the next two books of the series safely tucked away in my little book cabinet a...more
Mira Hoskins believed her whole life that her parents were killed in a car crash when she was a child. When a tall, handsome stranger rescues her from being attacked in her home, he tells her she is actually a powerful Air Witch which she finds a little hard to believe. Her powers were kept secret from her to keep her safe from the evil organisation who really murdered them, their powers drained so demons could be summoned. Fire Witch Jack McAlister has been sent by The Coven, the rulin...more
Mira is a witch, only she doesn’t know it. By her parent’s choice, Mira has lived as a human and had never been give the opportunity to develop her powers as an air witch. Air is the rarest of all elemental witches, and tends to be the strongest.
When the warlocks (evil witches, or witches who have turned evil) starts to target air witches for use in death magic, the witch council send Jack to watch over Mira. Staying at a distance Jack follows Mira for weeks, making sure she is safe. B...more
When the warlocks (evil witches, or witches who have turned evil) starts to target air witches for use in death magic, the witch council send Jack to watch over Mira. Staying at a distance Jack follows Mira for weeks, making sure she is safe. B...more
All her life, Mira has been raised by her grandmother after her parents are killed in an accident. Without her knowing, Mira has been a dormant air witch. Her life is turned upside down when a gorgeous man, Jack McAllister, saves her from an attack inside her apartment one night and tells the truth about herself and how her parents died. Jack confesses that he is sent by The Coven to protect Mira. Although there is a big secret that Jack also keeps from her ...
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In case you didn't know, this book is a romance novel. Expect plenty of sex scenes.
I had a hard time putting this book down. Something about it drew me in. I think that the romance was realistic and believable, and that is a huge positive for any romance book that I read. I'm not into the love at first sight for absolutely no reason, and I don't feel that Witch Fire is like that at all. I was interested in each of the main characters and their pasts, but I have to say they weren't very...more
I had a hard time putting this book down. Something about it drew me in. I think that the romance was realistic and believable, and that is a huge positive for any romance book that I read. I'm not into the love at first sight for absolutely no reason, and I don't feel that Witch Fire is like that at all. I was interested in each of the main characters and their pasts, but I have to say they weren't very...more
This is the first book I’ve read by this author. It was a fun read and for those that enjoy reading romance with touch of paranormal this is a book for you. It is heave on romance and light on paranormal.
I picked up this book in the bargain section in one my local stores, it was only dollar or two, so I had to have it.
Book was very well written and well thought out, at least in my opinion. Characters are well developed and interesting and fun. There is a lot of sex and ...more
I picked up this book in the bargain section in one my local stores, it was only dollar or two, so I had to have it.
Book was very well written and well thought out, at least in my opinion. Characters are well developed and interesting and fun. There is a lot of sex and ...more
In this book we have Mira, a divorced waitress, who has no ideal that her world is about to be turned upside down. She’s really a very rare, and very powerful, air witch who is in the middle of a war between witches and warlocks. Jack, a member of the Coven, was sent to protect Mira from Duskoff International. Jack quickly finds that he wants to teach Mira about more than just her Magick. He wants to teach her about how great sex can be. While they focus on trying to ignore their feelings by tr...more
Here's a book that drew me in from the very first sentence..and one which was hard to put down till i reached the end. It had sparkling Magick, a burning Romance with smoldering Sex - a lot of it, fabulous Chemistry between the main characters and an evil Villain worthy of great defeat! What more can one ask for!? All in all, it was a great read.
A few things that didn't settle well with me - Firstly, men and women both were referred to as "witch" - i found this mildly unsettl...more
A few things that didn't settle well with me - Firstly, men and women both were referred to as "witch" - i found this mildly unsettl...more
mira hoskins-main character,witch-air(powerful power)
JACK MCALLISTER-a dude that was sent to watch over mira-also other main character,warlock-fire
thomas monahan-miras cousin, also jack's boss that sent him to watch mira,warlock-earth
ben-miras ex-husband
trixie-a chick that ben was with while married to mira, also dating ben after his divorce with mira
annie weber-miras godmother,witch-water
william crane-bad guy, collects witches/warlocks and sacrafices them for...more
JACK MCALLISTER-a dude that was sent to watch over mira-also other main character,warlock-fire
thomas monahan-miras cousin, also jack's boss that sent him to watch mira,warlock-earth
ben-miras ex-husband
trixie-a chick that ben was with while married to mira, also dating ben after his divorce with mira
annie weber-miras godmother,witch-water
william crane-bad guy, collects witches/warlocks and sacrafices them for...more
Look, first I want to say I really liked this book. Though it wasn't an original plot, but it was nicely written with some --okay, a lot-- hot-and-heavy scnenes in it.
What frustrated me mostly was the fact that Annie was such a stubborn, selfish, reckless BITCH. I mean, hel-lo? Super-duper bad warlock on the loose, looking for something (or rather, someone) that will save his life and would do anything to get to it, and she just fucking refuses to get to safety. Stupid.
Second, I was an...more
What frustrated me mostly was the fact that Annie was such a stubborn, selfish, reckless BITCH. I mean, hel-lo? Super-duper bad warlock on the loose, looking for something (or rather, someone) that will save his life and would do anything to get to it, and she just fucking refuses to get to safety. Stupid.
Second, I was an...more
This is what Amazon says
After a chaotic marriage and a rough divorce, all Mira Hoskin wants is stability and normality. But when sexy Jack McAllister enters her life, she discovers that what you want is not always what you need. Jack is a powerful witch with the ability to command fire and is anything but normal. As the head of a security detail for The Coven, Jack has been assigned to watch over Mira. She is a natural born witch with the ability to control air and a group of renega...more
After a chaotic marriage and a rough divorce, all Mira Hoskin wants is stability and normality. But when sexy Jack McAllister enters her life, she discovers that what you want is not always what you need. Jack is a powerful witch with the ability to command fire and is anything but normal. As the head of a security detail for The Coven, Jack has been assigned to watch over Mira. She is a natural born witch with the ability to control air and a group of renega...more
Joy
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This is the first book I read from this author and I'm pretty impressed I'll stick to reading the rest of the books in the series.
I liked the paranormal angle, the witches, warlocks, demons, magic and all, I'm interested in it. I wasn't expecting anything from this, I just read along because the magic pulled me in.
The author's excellent writing had me imagining the characters in vivid detail, and having been lied to before by someone I love, the feelings of hurt were describ...more
I liked the paranormal angle, the witches, warlocks, demons, magic and all, I'm interested in it. I wasn't expecting anything from this, I just read along because the magic pulled me in.
The author's excellent writing had me imagining the characters in vivid detail, and having been lied to before by someone I love, the feelings of hurt were describ...more
Witch Fire was a difficult review to write. The plot was not unusual or unique. Girl(Mira Hoskins) discovers she is a witch(air elemental) and is being protected by an unknown beautifully sexy man (Jack McAllister). Mira has some emotional baggage from her recent divorce from a philandering ex and Jack has some serious emotional baggage from his evil warlock father. Although the storyline has been done before, I enjoyed it. However, this is where the problem for me began. You see, there just sim...more
Wow, I would say this borders on soft porn. There is so much sex and then more sex. Did I mention that there was alot of sex? Hot and steamy, well written, definitely keeps the juices flowing! I really liked the storyline and I read it in one sitting. I also thoroughly enjoyed the character couple, Jack and Mira. I hope to read more about them in the future else I will miss them. They really seem to stick to me.
Mireserenya
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This review almost went over onto my erotica review blog, because WOWZA! It is heavy on the erotic. I have to say, that I was expecting a bit more plot -- the plot was there, and it was all good and neat and tight ... but I was just expecting a bit more and it never came.
The characters however, came over and over again ... and over and over ...more
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My Review / Thoughts / Feelings / Strapline:
This review almost went over onto my erotica review blog, because WOWZA! It is heavy on the erotic. I have to say, that I was expecting a bit more plot -- the plot was there, and it was all good and neat and tight ... but I was just expecting a bit more and it never came.
The characters however, came over and over again ... and over and over ...more
Mira Hoskins finds herself daydreaming about the new hunk of a customer at the diner where she works, however she has vowed to avoid men after recently divorcing her two timing ex. Up until now her life has been very uneventful, her parents died when she was young and she was raised by her aunt, so it comes as a big surprise when that night a couple of strange men smash her apartment door to smithereens and knock her out. When Mira wakes up the hunky customer that she has been mooning over claim...more
I love Half Price Books. I go there at least 2 or 3 times a month. That being said, it's rare that I just pick a book up at random and enjoy it this much. Fortunately for me, HPB had all four of the books in the Elemental Witches series and I was smart enough to pick them all up instead of waiting (like I normally do) to see if I like the first one.
I had a hard time putting this book down. I hate that goodreads only offers 1 -5 stars and not halves because I would definitely giv...more
I had a hard time putting this book down. I hate that goodreads only offers 1 -5 stars and not halves because I would definitely giv...more
Blurb from Book:
After a chaotic marriage and a rough divorce, all Mira Hoskins wants is stability and normality. But when sexy Jack McAllister enters her life, she discovers that what you want isn't always what you need.
Jack is a powerful witch with the ability to command fire and is anything but normal. As the head of a security detail for The Coven, a national organization that governs national witches, Jack has been assigned to watch over Mira. She is a natural born witch with th...more
After a chaotic marriage and a rough divorce, all Mira Hoskins wants is stability and normality. But when sexy Jack McAllister enters her life, she discovers that what you want isn't always what you need.
Jack is a powerful witch with the ability to command fire and is anything but normal. As the head of a security detail for The Coven, a national organization that governs national witches, Jack has been assigned to watch over Mira. She is a natural born witch with th...more
How would you feel if you were just living you normal life just like everyone else around you and then all of a sudden, things are not what they seemed to be. Mira used to be a waitress working at a coffee shop and sadly was divorced. She foung out that her husband had been cheating om her with another woman. One day serving the customers, one spots her wearing a pentagram around her neck thinking she was a Satanist. That left Jake McAlisterto step in and defend her. She wasn't a Satanist, she w...more
Excellent, entertaining book! Anya Bast write them hot and this one doesn't leave you disappointed. A thoroughly entertaining story about a woman who's life gets turned upside down by a cup of coffee.
Devan
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SEX SEX SEX SEX! Really hot sex and lots of it. There's even a story in here.
Mira is a powerful air witch, but doesn't know until Jack comes and turns her life upside down. Jack is her new bodyguard and a fire witch who likes ropes. Mira is being hunted down by a dark magic cabal who is run by a warlock who happens to be Jack's father. His father needs an air witch to close a circle and raise a demon.
Jack has secrets he's keeping from Mira........all the while he's screwing ...more
Mira is a powerful air witch, but doesn't know until Jack comes and turns her life upside down. Jack is her new bodyguard and a fire witch who likes ropes. Mira is being hunted down by a dark magic cabal who is run by a warlock who happens to be Jack's father. His father needs an air witch to close a circle and raise a demon.
Jack has secrets he's keeping from Mira........all the while he's screwing ...more
Mira our heroine is a Wiccan who doesn't believe in magick??? She is being stalked by a bad dude witch aka warlock. Jack our hero is a witch, fire witch actually who is supposed to body guard Mira until he can get her safely to the Coven. Mira lusts after Jack, Jack lusts after Mira...they have sex...then there is a show down with bad witches, Jack gets her away and they end up at the Coven. Jack shys away from Mira cause he has a big dark secret. The End.
I was pretty disappointed ...more
I was pretty disappointed ...more
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