Reviewed by Dan

TITLE: Magic and Mayhem

SERIES: Corent City Tales Book 2

AUTHOR: Hannah Walker

PUBLISHER: Self-Published

LENGTH: 294 Pages

RELEASE DATE:  April 10, 2018

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Life in Corent is exciting and challenging. As one of the main paranormal communities you never know what might be around the corner.

Matt’s life has always been peaceful. He splits his time between helping at his mama’s shop, and spending time with family, friends, and his coven. Yet, when his magic becomes increasingly unstable, he finds himself shunned and cast away as people fear what is happening to him.

Feeling lost and alone, and his magic becoming ever more erratic, Matt’s thoughts turn inward as he tries to work out just who he is and what being a mage means to him.

Matt draws strength from his best friend Charlie, and the powerful tiger shifter family, the Vaughn’s.

Frequent visits from Tyler, and messages from a mystery man, provide the only break from the melancholy he feels like he’s drowning in. Yet, even that complicates his life further, as he struggles with growing emotions toward both of them.

When unexpected events bring radical changes to Matt’s life, the news shocks him and those closest to him. Yet, as scary as everything is, it helps him see who is truly a friend and who is a foe, and that it isn’t always blood that means family.

No one knows what these changes mean, leaving Matt to weave his way through the knowledge and find what his true path is meant to be. Finding the strength to stand for himself, but also allowing those around him to support him, he comes to find that there is so much more to him than he thought possible, and that love can come from unexpected places.

Just when he didn’t think life could get any darker, light comes, showing him that his future holds more than he ever imagined.

REVIEW:

I really enjoyed the first book in this new series from Ms. Walker and I was waiting for this current one.  It didn’t disappoint. I liked reading Matt’s story.

We met Matt through Charlie’s story back in book one. Matt is Charlie’s best friend and the one whose magic was going haywire. Now we see everything from his side. He is desperate for an answer, believing his only option is to give up his magic forever.

But not so fast. The Vaughn family is on the case. We met them when Charlie fell in love with one of them in book one. I’m not going to say more about that in case you haven’t read that one yet. Suffice it to say that they are a family of Siberian Tiger shifters and every one of them is an Alpha. Matt sees himself as a geek, nerd, or something like that. A bookworm his entire life, he works with his mom in the family bookstore…or rather he works from home, but with the books from the store.

His magic has grown increasingly more erratic, and the Mage Council has said they don’t believe there is anything wrong, and hinted he might be making it all up for the attention. The head of his coven has threatened him with expulsion. How can life get worse?

Then one of the Vaughn brothers comes into his life. The pieces start to come together. There is a reason his magic is wonky. No further spoilers though.

I liked the book a lot. It kept me up late reading last night, and was totally worth it. You know when you have that gummy eyed feeling, and your eyes are getting blurry and you know you should put the book down? Well that was me. I refused to give up before I got to the last page.

Great job Ms. Walker. I look forward to book three! I highly recommend the two books in the series. They are light hearted and don’t have a lot of angst.  Just what I needed this week!

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