Spirit Witch (The Lazy Girl's Guide to Magic, #3)

by Helen Harper

If anyone appreciates what it means to be dead to the world, it's Ivy Wilde.

Barely recovered from her brush with necromancy, Ivy is flung once more into a world of intrigue, adventure and potential death and disaster. It's not her fault - it just so turns out that she's now the only person in the entire world who can communicate with the dead. And they're a chatty bunch with a list of demands.

When the ghosts offer information about a witch-hating mass murderer in return for Ivy's help, she has no choice but to get involved. She might be getting herself into more trouble than she realises though - and that's even before she's dragged to Sunday dinner so she can meet Winter's family...

• ISBN10: 1913116093
• ISBN13: 9781913116095
• Publish Date: 23 August 2017
• Publish Status: Active
• Imprint: Harperfire
• Format: Paperback (US Trade)
• Pages: 256
• Language: English

Reviews

[EBookObsessed]

Although there is a novella which came out last year, I am sad to stay this is the last book of the series. I definitely want more Ivy.

Note:  This will have some spoilers from the last book.

Ivy survived her ordeal with the necromancer. Maybe because he was so young or maybe because he didn't completely cross into the darkness, but it really doesn't matter. Ivy is alive but she is slowly going out of her mind.  Maybe it is because she can now see spirits (a side-effect of absorbing the necromacer's magic?) but more likely it is because Adeptus Exemptus Raphael Winter, or former Adeptus Exemptus, won't stop cleaning her apartment. Raphael resigned from the Order after they risked Ivy's life, but now he doesn't know what to do with himself and it is definitely making Ivy crazy. Ivy is ready to forgive the Order for using her.  Heck, she feels better already, and she wants Raphael to do that same and be reinstated for his own sanity, and hers as well.  She just needs to get him to realize that he needs the Order as much as they need him.

Ivy already has enough on her plate trying to drag out her recovery time.  I mean, really, I girl doesn't want to rush the pampering from her boyfriend.   But now that it is getting around that she can see ghosts, the spirits are harassing her to help release them from their earthly bonds, or something like that.  They really should wait for a commercial before they start bothering her after all.    The first Ibsissimus's ghost sends her out into the woods to speak to the ghosts of a coven of witches.  Their killer managed to take out the whole coven in one sweep and their magical counterattack had no effect on him. How could that even be possible?

Ivy is now in the middle of an investigation with no bodies and no evidence, and everywhere she turns there are more and more ghosts popping up wanting her to help them lift their curses so they can go into the light. They are so annoying and Ivy is starting to understand why they were all cursed in the first place.

But none of that is getting her any closer to the murderer. Winter and Ivy are tracking down any leads they can find but if the killer really is able to nullify magic, they need to warn an Order.  How do you convince an Order full of witches, whose first inclination is to throw spells, that they might not be able to defend themselves?

I am sorry to say that this is the last novel of the series. (There is a Christmas themed novella.)  These stories were fun and quick reads.    I already miss Ivy.

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