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michalice's review against another edition
3.0
I got my copy of Enchanted Again from netgalley. Although I have not read the previous book Enchanted No More I hoped it would not affect me reading this book. From the moment I started Enchanted Again I found myself really enjoying it and you don't miss out on not having read the previous story, which was great for me.
Amber is a genealogist, but also a curse breaker, and she is approached by Conrad and Rafe to help break Conrad's curse. Agreeing to help, and and after Rafe has some life threatening attacks, he stays with Amber in her house were she learns more about Conrad and Rafe's curse, and slowly starts to fall in love. But it's not all plain sailing for Rafe and Amber and they must work together to break Rafe's curse.
Enchanted Again is the first book by Robin D. Owens that I have read and it does not disappoint. It is a longer book than my usual ebooks but kept me engrossed throughout. I enjoyed watching the relationship between Rafe and Amber develop into something more than a job. I like how Robin has described the details of the different magic races and their 'colours' and how a certain magic being is a certain colour, and the detail of Mystic Circle and the houses within it makes me wish I lived there.
I fell in love with the Brownies straight away, and when the fire sprites were introduced I loved them as well.
The most touching part about Enchanted Again was when Amber breaks her bonds with people who she has made contact or touched their lives in anyway, customers, friends, magical beings and even her pets. The emotion in those few pages, reading how she feels about each person, finding bonds she didn't know existed, and making sure the bonds frayed slowly so the other person wouldn't feel it really touched me and I felt sorry for Amber for having to do it.
Enchanted Again ends in a place that is waiting for a new book to be wrote and I am looking forward to see what happens next with Rafe and Amber.
Amber is a genealogist, but also a curse breaker, and she is approached by Conrad and Rafe to help break Conrad's curse. Agreeing to help, and and after Rafe has some life threatening attacks, he stays with Amber in her house were she learns more about Conrad and Rafe's curse, and slowly starts to fall in love. But it's not all plain sailing for Rafe and Amber and they must work together to break Rafe's curse.
Enchanted Again is the first book by Robin D. Owens that I have read and it does not disappoint. It is a longer book than my usual ebooks but kept me engrossed throughout. I enjoyed watching the relationship between Rafe and Amber develop into something more than a job. I like how Robin has described the details of the different magic races and their 'colours' and how a certain magic being is a certain colour, and the detail of Mystic Circle and the houses within it makes me wish I lived there.
I fell in love with the Brownies straight away, and when the fire sprites were introduced I loved them as well.
The most touching part about Enchanted Again was when Amber breaks her bonds with people who she has made contact or touched their lives in anyway, customers, friends, magical beings and even her pets. The emotion in those few pages, reading how she feels about each person, finding bonds she didn't know existed, and making sure the bonds frayed slowly so the other person wouldn't feel it really touched me and I felt sorry for Amber for having to do it.
Enchanted Again ends in a place that is waiting for a new book to be wrote and I am looking forward to see what happens next with Rafe and Amber.
sparklingreader's review against another edition
4.0
I am in love with Robin Owens’ books and this one let me know once again why. Her characters and world building are wonderful, as is the writing.
In this book, the main character, Amber, is a curse breaker. But there’s a problem with her magic – in that it is self-destructive. She’s a curse breaker who can’t break her own curse. As with most books from Luna, there is a love interest – Rafe. He’s a bit unlikeable at first since he’s all about himself, but he eventually becomes the supporting hero he’s supposed to be. The story becomes very emotional (not going to give away spoilers here) and touching in several spots, but that just serves to enhance the characterization, especially in Amber’s case.
Though I most definitely recommend this book, I suggest strongly that you start with the first book in the series, Enchanted No More. That one builds the world much better and you get a better grasp what is going on, but if you can’t get that one first, definitely pick this one up.
In this book, the main character, Amber, is a curse breaker. But there’s a problem with her magic – in that it is self-destructive. She’s a curse breaker who can’t break her own curse. As with most books from Luna, there is a love interest – Rafe. He’s a bit unlikeable at first since he’s all about himself, but he eventually becomes the supporting hero he’s supposed to be. The story becomes very emotional (not going to give away spoilers here) and touching in several spots, but that just serves to enhance the characterization, especially in Amber’s case.
Though I most definitely recommend this book, I suggest strongly that you start with the first book in the series, Enchanted No More. That one builds the world much better and you get a better grasp what is going on, but if you can’t get that one first, definitely pick this one up.
ninareeds's review against another edition
Yup, I won't be able to finish this book. I really like the way curses and magic work in Enchanted Again, I just can't connect to the characters at all, and the writing is not good enough for me to wanna finish this. I mean, any time I stop reading to check my Twitter every five minutes, it's a good sign I'm not into the book.. Too bad, since the idea of this story is really good.
avid_reader_53's review against another edition
5.0
Enchanted Again: Mystic Circle #2
Robin D. Owens
This story was great! Amber Sarga is a genealogist, but her magic gift from her maternal side is to break curses placed on people. She learned the hard way that the cost for breaking curses is that she ages physically, the worse the curse the more years it takes off of her life. She is about five foot six, with honey colored skin and dark eyes. She appears physically about thirty-three, but she is chronologically only twenty-six. She has learned her lesson in curse breaking though, any being she loves and holds dear also suffers the accelerated aging also. She lost her beloved cat the last curse she broke; now she has two puppies and refuses to put them in danger.
Rafael Barakiel Davail is thirty-two and knows that he will not live to be thirty-three. No first born son in his family has ever lived past thirty-three. He doesn’t believe in magic, curses or anything he can’t see, feel and touch. He lives his life like he won’t see tomorrow, extreme sports, race car driving, anything dangerous that he can cheat death while excelling at it. His tall, lanky body, dark blond hair and vivid blue eyes have always made getting the girl easy. His rich bank account hasn’t hurt either. His younger brother is the responsible one that runs the family business and is engaged. He doesn’t believe in the family curse, but he goes to the ‘curse breaker’ with his best-friend, Conrad Tyne-Cymbler, who does believe in curses and needs to break his before he loses his baby son.
The brownies over at Jennie Mist-Weaver’s house start coming around Amber’s house. Pred picks her violets and asks her to make a chocolate pie with the violets candied – which he does with a breath. Hertha joins them, scolding her mate for showing himself to another in Mystic Circle when Jennie had forbidden it, but the promise of chocolate pie with candied violets was enough to encourage her to stay also and help Amber with her magic a little bit. Once Rafe and Conrad showed up, Pred went to find the brownie that is supposed to serve her family, the descendants of Cumulustre, Tiro. Tiro is a very grumpy brownie, says that the women of the Cumulustre are ‘squishy’ and they only think of the people whose curses they break, no one else.
Pavan and Vikos, the Elf and Dwarf guardians show up after shadleeches attack Rafe, telling him about his legacy as a warrior against the Dark Ones and what the needs to do on his thirty-third birthday to access his heritage. They can’t tell him much about his curse, is happened when they lost track of his line sometime in the twelve century. Pavan left a new version of the Fairies and Dragons game on Rafe’s tablet and made it so the magic and technology meld fueled it. Hertha offered hot chocolate and cookies to Vikos, but not Pavan, when Pavan asked she replied because he was rude to Amber. He greeted her properly, if coolly, after that Hertha gave a small cup of chocolate and a saucer of two cookies to him.
When Pavan left the advice he gave Rafe was to manifest the dagger he been dreaming of, and to do that, play the game. The game gave him the Cosmos Shield, and the Cosmos Dagger ended up at the Denver Museum of Natural History. Now they have to get it. When he had been attacked again and Eight Corp wouldn’t help with a bodyguard, Sittizz showed up offering to do the job to bring honor back to her name.
I loved this book as much as their first one of this series and can’t wait for the third come out a little later this year. This mix of magic and technology in the twenty-first century is fascinating to me and a wonderful flight for my imagination. The characters all come to life so vividly as the brownies scuff their feet, roll their ears down their heads, the fire sprits burns hirer or condenses herself, the tone of skin, the brightness of eyes and a simple hand guster commented on all add up to making these people as real to me as I am reading as my co-workers sitting the room with me. Ms. Owens remains one of my all time favorite authors and continually be on my auto buy list. Thank you for sharing all your wonderful stories with us, Ms. Owens and I await the next one.
Robin D. Owens
This story was great! Amber Sarga is a genealogist, but her magic gift from her maternal side is to break curses placed on people. She learned the hard way that the cost for breaking curses is that she ages physically, the worse the curse the more years it takes off of her life. She is about five foot six, with honey colored skin and dark eyes. She appears physically about thirty-three, but she is chronologically only twenty-six. She has learned her lesson in curse breaking though, any being she loves and holds dear also suffers the accelerated aging also. She lost her beloved cat the last curse she broke; now she has two puppies and refuses to put them in danger.
Rafael Barakiel Davail is thirty-two and knows that he will not live to be thirty-three. No first born son in his family has ever lived past thirty-three. He doesn’t believe in magic, curses or anything he can’t see, feel and touch. He lives his life like he won’t see tomorrow, extreme sports, race car driving, anything dangerous that he can cheat death while excelling at it. His tall, lanky body, dark blond hair and vivid blue eyes have always made getting the girl easy. His rich bank account hasn’t hurt either. His younger brother is the responsible one that runs the family business and is engaged. He doesn’t believe in the family curse, but he goes to the ‘curse breaker’ with his best-friend, Conrad Tyne-Cymbler, who does believe in curses and needs to break his before he loses his baby son.
The brownies over at Jennie Mist-Weaver’s house start coming around Amber’s house. Pred picks her violets and asks her to make a chocolate pie with the violets candied – which he does with a breath. Hertha joins them, scolding her mate for showing himself to another in Mystic Circle when Jennie had forbidden it, but the promise of chocolate pie with candied violets was enough to encourage her to stay also and help Amber with her magic a little bit. Once Rafe and Conrad showed up, Pred went to find the brownie that is supposed to serve her family, the descendants of Cumulustre, Tiro. Tiro is a very grumpy brownie, says that the women of the Cumulustre are ‘squishy’ and they only think of the people whose curses they break, no one else.
Pavan and Vikos, the Elf and Dwarf guardians show up after shadleeches attack Rafe, telling him about his legacy as a warrior against the Dark Ones and what the needs to do on his thirty-third birthday to access his heritage. They can’t tell him much about his curse, is happened when they lost track of his line sometime in the twelve century. Pavan left a new version of the Fairies and Dragons game on Rafe’s tablet and made it so the magic and technology meld fueled it. Hertha offered hot chocolate and cookies to Vikos, but not Pavan, when Pavan asked she replied because he was rude to Amber. He greeted her properly, if coolly, after that Hertha gave a small cup of chocolate and a saucer of two cookies to him.
When Pavan left the advice he gave Rafe was to manifest the dagger he been dreaming of, and to do that, play the game. The game gave him the Cosmos Shield, and the Cosmos Dagger ended up at the Denver Museum of Natural History. Now they have to get it. When he had been attacked again and Eight Corp wouldn’t help with a bodyguard, Sittizz showed up offering to do the job to bring honor back to her name.
I loved this book as much as their first one of this series and can’t wait for the third come out a little later this year. This mix of magic and technology in the twenty-first century is fascinating to me and a wonderful flight for my imagination. The characters all come to life so vividly as the brownies scuff their feet, roll their ears down their heads, the fire sprits burns hirer or condenses herself, the tone of skin, the brightness of eyes and a simple hand guster commented on all add up to making these people as real to me as I am reading as my co-workers sitting the room with me. Ms. Owens remains one of my all time favorite authors and continually be on my auto buy list. Thank you for sharing all your wonderful stories with us, Ms. Owens and I await the next one.
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