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blodeuedd's review
3.0
This is book two, but it works perfectly as a stand alone and you can just jump straight in. There is a little prologue at first explaining why and what magic is.
And on to the book. Jasmine is a proper young lady, until a spell backfires on her. Which leads her to meet a shapeshifter, and those are just so beneath her social standing. Too bad Sterling is a total hottie and sparks fly. The book is about Jasmine trying to find a missing magical relic, and the twin she created with magic. Her very naughty twin. Sterling is sent to help her, and he wants her. But he does seem to have a few issues to deal with.
Oh and there is a gnome! At first I did not like him, but he was fun in the end. And annoying! Poor Jasmine. Also loved her aunt Nettie. So glad about a thing that happened *giggles*
A magical story set in an alternate England
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Sterling meets the illusion twin first and has sex with her! Wtf? And lusts after her. Then he gets disappointed when he meets the real deal. But oh she is after a while nice too. All while All I can think of is that he had sex with her TWIN! Fail!
And on to the book. Jasmine is a proper young lady, until a spell backfires on her. Which leads her to meet a shapeshifter, and those are just so beneath her social standing. Too bad Sterling is a total hottie and sparks fly. The book is about Jasmine trying to find a missing magical relic, and the twin she created with magic. Her very naughty twin. Sterling is sent to help her, and he wants her. But he does seem to have a few issues to deal with.
Oh and there is a gnome! At first I did not like him, but he was fun in the end. And annoying! Poor Jasmine. Also loved her aunt Nettie. So glad about a thing that happened *giggles*
A magical story set in an alternate England
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Sterling meets the illusion twin first and has sex with her! Wtf? And lusts after her. Then he gets disappointed when he meets the real deal. But oh she is after a while nice too. All while All I can think of is that he had sex with her TWIN! Fail!
kstep1805's review
3.0
A fun combination of historical romance and fantasy. The plot, while predictable, was enjoyable to read.
reginaexmachina's review
3.0
In Double Enchantment Lady Jasmina is in a world of trouble. What got her in the whole mess to begin with is that her mother likes to steal or as her mother puts it, 'borrow' expensive jewelry. And as Jasmina's mother tends to forget to give back these 'borrowed' objects, it's up to her and her aunt to return them unnoticed. However, one particular broach gives Lady Jasmina more trouble than usual. She thought it would be a good idea to create a double of herself to fool her parents while she was out returning the object. She tells the double to stay in bed until she returns and whisks away into the night on her mission. What Lady Jasmina is unaware of is that the particular broach she is returning is an artifact of power making her double a little more real than she intended. When Lady Jasmina returns home she finds the double missing and to make matters worse, has been sweeping around London with the most scandalous behavior. It's up to her and Sir Sterling, a baronet who somehow managed to marry her conjured twin, to figure out how to set things right.
I thought this book was fun like the first book in the series. I like how Ms. Kennedy's universe mixes magic and historical London without it seeming random or disjointed. In general I liked the book, but there were parts where the heroine acted in ways that made me want to shake her. Hard. It was the hero, Sterling, that really saved this book for me. But otherwise I thought the book was fun and enjoyable.
I thought this book was fun like the first book in the series. I like how Ms. Kennedy's universe mixes magic and historical London without it seeming random or disjointed. In general I liked the book, but there were parts where the heroine acted in ways that made me want to shake her. Hard. It was the hero, Sterling, that really saved this book for me. But otherwise I thought the book was fun and enjoyable.
cjmichel's review
4.0
Although I read this book three years ago, I rated it very good to excellent at the time.
mortonsspoon's review
Yikes. This book is the worst combination of instalove and romance novel logic. The guy is desperately searching for his potentially kidnapped sister but dances with a lady, takes her home, sleeps with her, then gets married in one night? Yikes. Yikes.
The amount of references to horses, him tossing his hair like a horse, etc. was awkward. The constant references to thinking about sex made it difficult to follow the actual plot (what little of it there was). The motivations of both main characters are dicey as hell and this was almost physically painful to read.
The amount of references to horses, him tossing his hair like a horse, etc. was awkward. The constant references to thinking about sex made it difficult to follow the actual plot (what little of it there was). The motivations of both main characters are dicey as hell and this was almost physically painful to read.
eloiseinparis's review
3.0
This book was originally published in 2008, and is being rereleased. It is the second in the series, and I did not read the first book but that was ok. This is definitely a stand alone novel. It was fun, silly, magical, and appropriately sexy for the time period the story takes place in. As a matter of fact while Jasmina’s twin behaved extremely scandalous, even though hardly cause a stir today. Jasmina is smart, strong, and fun. Sterling is sexy as all get out, with just the right amount of brooding. Magic is just a part of everyday life, and while this is not steampunk it has filled the hole left by the ending of the Parasol Protectorate series. I will definitely be continuing on with this series.
greymalkin's review
3.0
Fluffy, but reasonably fun. I do like what she did with the twin thing but I wish the psychological stuff had been explored more. It was also nice to see that a werestallion is badass even compared to a wolf or lion. I did get a little tired of the constant tossing of his hair though. I mean I GET IT, HE'S PART HORSE.
prationality's review
4.0
DOUBLE ENCHANTMENT, the second book in the Relics of Merlin books by Kathryn Kennedy, is set roughly forty years before its predecessor, ENCHANTING THE LADY. This book actually serves to explain some of the societal differences between 'real' Victorian England and Kennedy's 'magical' Victorian England that weren't explained, in so many words, in the first book. The fact that titles passed to either gender as long as the heir had the magical ability to back it up, for instance, was mentioned in ENCHANTING, but never formally stated.
Lady Jasmina Karlyle, the heroine, is vastly different from Felicity of the first book as well. They are both sweet, clever and innocent, but where Felicity was content to be passive (until the end of the book), Jasmina did everything she could to forge her own path through her problems. Mostly with mixed results, but she tried at least.
Sir Sterling Thorn, the hero, spends much of the book in utter bewilderment. I honestly felt bad for him. He meets the woman of his dreams, spends an achingly beautiful night with her, marries her and then wakes up to find her gone. If that wasn't bad enough, it turns out the woman he was in love with wasn't real at all, technically, and the person who made her was as different as night is from day. The odd glimpses of Jaz he sees in Jasmina only serves to confuse him even more. Here is a girl who goes from a cold as stone Ice Princess one second, to a fiery, passionate courtesan the next, only to go back to the Ice Princess moments later!
The world feels real, as if I'm not reading a fantasy, but in fact a historical accounting of that time. Little details of life that many people feel would be so much easier if they had magic to perform the task are shown to be just as tedious and time-consuming. You can spell a broom to do your sweeping for you, but the energy required to do such a feat, however, might prove to be more tiring then the manual labor itself! Then also, magic seems to be such an ingrained facet of life that unicorns escorting a golden coach is as commonplace to these people as seeing a dog in a park for us.
I felt while reading the book, however, that it didn't grasp my attention quite as much as the first book. It didn't feel like a 'second' book to a connected series (though they can be read alone quite easily), but more like the first book. As mentioned previously, details that were talked about in the first book are actually explained in this book and I felt as if Jasmina and Sterling weren't as strong a couple as Felicity and Terence from ENCHANTING had been. Part of that could have been due to the fact that Terence was a were-lion, while Sterling is a were-stallion.
One mystery I remain puzzled about is Prince Albert. His age is never given (and I can't be certain that the author is following the 'real' Albert's age either), but he is a grown man in DOUBLE ENCHANTMENT (set in 1848) and in ENCHANTING THE LADY (set in 1882). I remember Felicity thinking that if Prince Albert knew her parents, that he must have been a child, but she wasn't above eighteen herself and her parents died young. It might be I am looking too deeply into this, however.
The series is turning out to be a delightful surprise to me and I look forward to the next book!
Lady Jasmina Karlyle, the heroine, is vastly different from Felicity of the first book as well. They are both sweet, clever and innocent, but where Felicity was content to be passive (until the end of the book), Jasmina did everything she could to forge her own path through her problems. Mostly with mixed results, but she tried at least.
Sir Sterling Thorn, the hero, spends much of the book in utter bewilderment. I honestly felt bad for him. He meets the woman of his dreams, spends an achingly beautiful night with her, marries her and then wakes up to find her gone. If that wasn't bad enough, it turns out the woman he was in love with wasn't real at all, technically, and the person who made her was as different as night is from day. The odd glimpses of Jaz he sees in Jasmina only serves to confuse him even more. Here is a girl who goes from a cold as stone Ice Princess one second, to a fiery, passionate courtesan the next, only to go back to the Ice Princess moments later!
The world feels real, as if I'm not reading a fantasy, but in fact a historical accounting of that time. Little details of life that many people feel would be so much easier if they had magic to perform the task are shown to be just as tedious and time-consuming. You can spell a broom to do your sweeping for you, but the energy required to do such a feat, however, might prove to be more tiring then the manual labor itself! Then also, magic seems to be such an ingrained facet of life that unicorns escorting a golden coach is as commonplace to these people as seeing a dog in a park for us.
I felt while reading the book, however, that it didn't grasp my attention quite as much as the first book. It didn't feel like a 'second' book to a connected series (though they can be read alone quite easily), but more like the first book. As mentioned previously, details that were talked about in the first book are actually explained in this book and I felt as if Jasmina and Sterling weren't as strong a couple as Felicity and Terence from ENCHANTING had been. Part of that could have been due to the fact that Terence was a were-lion, while Sterling is a were-stallion.
One mystery I remain puzzled about is Prince Albert. His age is never given (and I can't be certain that the author is following the 'real' Albert's age either), but he is a grown man in DOUBLE ENCHANTMENT (set in 1848) and in ENCHANTING THE LADY (set in 1882). I remember Felicity thinking that if Prince Albert knew her parents, that he must have been a child, but she wasn't above eighteen herself and her parents died young. It might be I am looking too deeply into this, however.
The series is turning out to be a delightful surprise to me and I look forward to the next book!
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