Star Witch (The Lazy Girl's Guide to Magic, #2)

by Helen Harper

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The world's laziest witch reminds me of myself, if I had magic powers.  I love Ivy.

Ivy Wilde has been free from bond to Exemptus Adeptus Raphael Winter for a few weeks. So she is surprised and delighted when he shows up at her flat and not so happy that he brought the head of the Hallowed Order of Magical Enlightenment with him. Winter and the Ibsissimus need Ivy's help. Ivy's favorite TV show is Enchantment where people who believe they possess magical abilities, but not really, compete against each other in magical face-offs. Unfortunately, they are not looking for her to watch the shows from her couch and takes notes for them. There has been a death on the set of Enchantment where they are filming in a remote location in Scotland. The new format is more witches Survivor-style and the Order needs Ivy to go in undercover and observe since the producers are not allowing the Order anywhere near their closed set. It takes some work, but a seemingly angry Winter convinces Ivy to work with him again.

Ivy is unhappy that her job as a runner on set entails a lot of running around. Worse yet, just when she is making some progress in her investigation...or Winter's investigation, the producers find themselves one contestant short and decide that Ivy needs to step in or get lost. Watching Enchantment from her couch is fun but being forced to traipse through the wilderness and compete is hard work and Ivy hates hard work.

When Ivy and Winter determine that the killer is raising the dead to do their dirty work, there is no choice but to take down the necromancer. The Ibsissimus comes forward with a spell that will rob the necromancer of his power, but it can only be used by the most powerful of witches and in this remote area, the only ones strong enough would be Winter or Ivy.  Absorbing that much black magic is deadly and the Ibsissimus asks if Ivy is willing to make the sacrifice.   Knowing her true feelings for Winter, Ivy knows she will make the ultimate sacrifice to take down the killer and keep Winter safe, and she has to do it without Winter finding out and stopping her.

I adore Ivy, Winter and her brat of a cat, Brutus, who comes along and sucks up to the MC of Enchantment playing sweet kitty, much to Ivy's annoyance. I also like the fact that the author doesn't drag down the series with the does he like me, like I like him drama that many series drag out. Even in the middle of danger, Ivy and Winter stop and agree that I like you and you like me and once we catch this killer, we need to get busy. Then we can focus on magic and zombies and stop worrying about if he likes me too. Unfortunately, the author does keep the sexy times behind the scenes.

I quickly moved on to Book 3 and the novella.  I really want to be like Ivy when I get magical powers.  :)

P.S. I am still a bit annoyed that they didn't use a British narrator, but I am getting used to the voices so now I am stuck with them in my head.

Received a courtesy copy from Tantor in exchange for an honest review.

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