Reviewed by True
TITLE: Portals and Puppy Dogs
SERIES: Hedge Witches Lonely Hearts Club #2
AUTHOR: Amy Lane
PUBLISHER: Dreamspinner Press
RELEASE DATE: February 16, 2021
LENGTH: 165 pages
BLURB:
On the surface, Alex Kennedy is unremarkable: average looks, boring accounting job, predictable crush on his handsome playboy boss, Simon Reddick. But he’s also a witch. Business powerhouse Simon goes for flash and glamour… most of the time. But something about Alex makes Simon wonder what’s underneath that sweet, gentle exterior. Alex could probably dance around their attraction forever… if not for the spell gone wrong tearing apart his haunted cul-de-sac. When a portal through time and space swallows the dog he’s petsitting, only for the pampered pooch to appear in the next instant on Simon’s doorstep, Alex and Simon must confront not only the rogue magic trying to take over Alex’s coven, but the long-buried passion they’ve been harboring for each other.
REVIEW:
I started this read unknown it was part two of a series and I had the feeling of stepping in halfway not knowing what was going on. I struggled to get in the story,
Alex and his friends have to do a ritual, at sunrise and sunset, or the cul-de-sac, where they all live, goes to hell. Things disappear and their beloved dog is gone, thank goodness it returns. There are a reason and a meaning behind it all.
Two of their friends are gone, nobody knows where they precisely are. The circle of friends is trying desperately through magic to return them.
Simon Reddick, accountant and one of the owners of Reddick, Lockhart, and Baldwin Accounting, keep saying the wrong things to Alex. Alex wants to leave the company because of his crush on his boss Simon. Simon doesn’t want Alex to leave, he has so many feelings for Alex. Very carefully they start something.
Alex is a witch and lives in a house at a cul-de-sac, in the other houses lives his friends, together they form a coven.
Simon can’t believe his eyes with all the magic going on at the cul-de-sac, he wants to help to return their absent friends.
I had mixed feelings about this story, I didn’t get it all the time. The romantic parts with Alex and Simon were lovely done. The parts about truth and lies, honesty and doing things right, were well thought out, the magical parts were awesomely done. Only, I couldn’t fully connect with the story. It took me some time to place all the characters, who were wonderful by the way.
It’s not over yet, it ends at a significant moment, there will be a continuation.
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