tessisreading2 's review for:

Dime Store Magic by Kelley Armstrong

3.0

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I’ve been whizzing through Armstrong’s werewolf books, but this definitely didn’t appeal to me in the same way. Paige’s isolation and the way in which everyone turns against her just felt too artificially-induced. The info dumps that worked well in Bitten were a little too much here: in Bitten they were not just about werewolf history but about Elena’s history, allowing us to slowly uncover why she was the way she was and why her world was the way it was. Here, it’s just potted histories of spells and sorcery, neither of which I care all that much about. Savannah is also intensely obnoxious, which I guess is reasonable for a teenage girl but makes a lot of the decisions Paige is making kind of incomprehensible: Savannah isn’t being trustworthy and she is causing damage that could hurt/kill people.