Breene never fails to deliver!

Great story! If you are a fan of the Fire & Ice trilogy you will be happy to see Reagen and team as side characters in this book! This is Penny’s story and her discovery of magic and of course chaos! You’ll love her from the start with her quirkiness, awkwardness, and unique but funny swearing. Some of the things don’t quite jibe such as a 24 y.o. still living at home under a controlling parent, but just roll with it. The book is entertaining and you’ll likely laugh. The narrator did a good job providing unique voices and appropriate tone inflections for each character and scene.

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Weak main character

I don't know about you, but I can't stand weak main characters. Whiny, weak-willed... Makes me grind my teeth. Only 1/2 way thru this book and I already want to slap the main character. Ugh!

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Fun Beginning to an Interesting Series

Almost stopped listening, as the voice the narrator used for Penny was just painful. Felt like a young adult novel.
Made it to chapter 8 and started to enjoy the story. A lot of humor, love Emory.

Will probably get the next book when it becomes available.

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Not sure about this... Maybe I am just getting old

This could be fact, that I am getting old and YA sometimes leads me to boring stories. But, I still had to slough through because I just can't leave a thing undone..... might look at the next one -- but it will need to have some plot.

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What a mess

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I could not listen past 5 chapters. Not sure how this story ever got five stars. All over the place, childish and confusing. I actually had to start over two times to understand what in the world is all about. Just awful.

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silly and not my cup of tea

I thought the protagonist immediately came off as silly and thoughtless and childish. I will be honest that I did not listen to much when I realized I would not like the protagonist but I feel like I should give a review for someone similar to my way of thinking who may believe this would be a good book for him or her.

This felt very plot-driven to me and likely will be very enjoyable to many types of personalities, but it was not my cup of tea.

If you like humorous tales of strong female protagonist you may like this. I do like humorous tales of strong female protagonist but this particular protagonist also felt a bit too unserious for me. It was funny. Just from the bit that I listen to I found myself outright chuckling on several occasions so I can only imagine how funny it is as one continues. But, I just couldn't get past the protagonist's personality and annoying Mary Sue implications in the very beginning of the story.

I refuse to listen to a story that says a protagonist can have fully functional powers in the initial scene brought out by a mere thought but yet knows nothing about said fully functional powers until she got into her twenties in that scene. I call BS on that. I just can't do it.

Anyone with a powerful gift or talent that is fully functional will know they have a gift or talent by the time it's fully functional. Either it would form over time or spring up overnight. If it develops over time the person would notice the changes depending on the severity of the changes and the lapse of time it would take for the development to take place. If it developed overnight the person would see the change immediately if the change is quite different. Being able to do this sort of magic with thoughts is a quite severe change. She never noticed that before this?

If you can make magic simply by thinking then shouldn't all of her thoughts have made some form of magic when her powers turned on?

Here's the real problem, the novel may answer these questions but I refuse to listen to it long enough to get the answers. And that is my major complaint. The author didn't give me enough from the introduction of the protagonist for me to even try. it's written in tropes with a main character whose unbelievable. And that made me not want to understand the rest of the book.

If you are like me, intolerant when it comes to fictional tropes and unbelievable responses even in fantasy, do not read this book.

I get that is fantasy but it still have to be believable and has his own working logic. I just can't listen to tripe. But somebody else might like it. Good luck.

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excellent spin off

The journey Penny and Emory is well paced with the same humor as the fire series. The mom in the story is even better than Callie. I hope Emory is back soon rather than later in book 2. I can't wait to hear it. Highly recommend.

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Strong beginning that wanes

Since I've been binging on Paranormal Romances lately, I'm starting to get a feel for the balance that makes this genre so fun. New worlds, new abilities and new relationships allow for a perfect backdrop for the hero and heroine to grow. This book started strong but over time it waned. There seemed to be a shallowness to the storyline and the description of the heroines "gifts" and her magical ability became repetitive.

The voice actress is very strong in other audiobooks, but in this one I became really annoyed with the voice of the mother. She had an oddly grating accent that was cringe worthy and distracted rather than added to the performance.

It's the first book in a series and I tend to get hooked and continue on. This time, I'm going to walk away...disappointed and ears ringing..

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Buyer Beware

It's difficult to determine if the story might have been at least tolerable
because the narration is so awful. The change is character voices equates to yelling or screeching. This was such a waste of my time and money that I'm going to request a refund. I suggest others skip this and find another series AND narrator.

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Ugh!

Looking for something you just can’t put down? Keep looking this was a painful 12 chapters I finally decided to quit I was trying to hang in there and get into the storyline but it was dragging on for too long without getting to anything in depth enough to build attachment to a character.

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