Blonde with a Wand (Babes on Brooms, #1) in Book Buying Addicts Anonymous

Feb 15, 2011 Erin Germain rated it liked it

Shelves: fantasy, fiction, romance, 2011-reads, witches, three-stars

It was cute. Took a little bit to get going, and there really weren't many surprises, as far as the plot went, but it was funny and made for a couple of entertaining nights of light reading.

I'm calling it a sort of Beauty and the Beast with a twist. The hero (Jasper) is transformed (into a handsome black cat, but we won't quibble about the type of beast ;) ) by the heroine (Anica) and someone has to figure out how to break the spell. As it starts to be solved, Jasper gains a few hours of human f ...more

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Jan 30, 2010 Melissa rated it really liked it

Shelves: romance, paranormal

This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. Excerpt:
From the Wild & Hexy imagination of a New York Times bestselling author

Sexy witch Anica Revere has one rule: never under any circumstances get involved with a man before telling him she's a witch. Still, what's one silly rule? Especially when the guy in question is as cute as Jasper Danes. But when Anica and Jasper have a spat, she breaks an ever bigger rule of witchcraft and turns him into a cat. Bad news for him. Worse for her..

If Jasper Danes were to meet any witch I’m sure he’d wan Excerpt:
From the Wild & Hexy imagination of a New York Times bestselling author

Sexy witch Anica Revere has one rule: never under any circumstances get involved with a man before telling him she's a witch. Still, what's one silly rule? Especially when the guy in question is as cute as Jasper Danes. But when Anica and Jasper have a spat, she breaks an ever bigger rule of witchcraft and turns him into a cat. Bad news for him. Worse for her..

If Jasper Danes were to meet any witch I’m sure he’d want to meet Samantha from Bewitched. That would be of course if he believed in witches after all. He met Anica Revere at her coffee shop “The Wicked Brew” and has fallen head over heals in…. lust with her. His plan when he took her out to dinner at La Boheme was to get laid. Not to get turned into a cat. Little did he know that he did not find his Samantha, but instead his Endora.
Anica Revere knew she wanted to date Jasper Danes the moment he stepped into her coffee shop. The poor thing was suffering from a broken heart and she felt it was her duty to heal it. She did not plan on meeting Jasper’s ex-girlfriend that night at the dinner. Neither did she plan on finding out that Jasper was a liar and a good one at that. His trick of picking up girls by pretending to have a broken heart when the truth was that it was him breaking the hearts ended with her. When Jasper chased after her down the street she did what ever good witch did when being pursed by a rake; pulled out her wand. Little did she expect to loose her temper and recite a spell that she had read once in an old magic book; More so for that spell to end with Jasper a cat and her with no magic. This was the situation that found our hero and heroine in at the beginning of “Blond with a Wand”.
“Blond with a Wand” was the first book I have ever read by Vicki Lewis Thompson and I have to admit I thoroughly enjoyed it. I really can’t remember the last time I have ever laughed so much while reading a book. From Jasper kitty nearly losing his “prize possessions” to Anica having to figure out how to deal with a boyfriend she’d turned into a cat this book was a major win from front to cover. My only complaint was that there was too much sex in the book. It really went to a point of ridiculousness sometimes. Most of the time I found myself just skipping the parts; especially the oral sex scenes. I’m the type of person who finds the act of oral sex just a tad disgusting and therefore cannot read it.
Overall a great book and I look forward to reading the sequel which starts Anica’s sister Lily.

4 stars for: humor, great plot line, well written characters, believable romance, and a well written book from beginning to finish. It misses 5 stars for me for being a bit over sexed for my taste.

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Aug 13, 2011 Elvira Scaff rated it really liked it · review of another edition

It was an amazing read, I loved it. The characters were well developed and the plot was grand. It had you laughing and really wanting more in the series. I am looking forward to reading book #2.

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May 28, 2010 Diane ~Firefly~ rated it it was ok

Shelves: magic, paranormal, romance

Anica gets mad at her date and turns him into a cat, then loses her powers for mis-using them. Jasper is not happy to be a cat and Anica is not happy to be powerless. They work together to try and reverse the spell, eventually getting help from Dorcas and Ambrose from the Hex series.

Jasper's redemption seemed to quick to be real and their willingness to have sex while still pissed off and him still plotting revenge was just wrong. I never got a good sense of Anica other that she was a good girl/ ...more

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