Magical Midlife Madness by K. F. Breene Series: Leveling Up #1
Published by the author on February 16, 2020
Source: Prime Reading
Genres: Paranormal
Pages: 376
Format: eBook
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A woman starting over. A new house with an unexpected twist. A cape wearing butler acting as the world's worst life coach.
"Happily Ever After" wasn't supposed to come with a do-over option. But when my husband of twenty years packs up and heads for greener pastures and my son leaves for college, that's exactly what my life becomes.
Do-over.
This time, though, I plan to do things differently. Age is just a number, after all, and at forty I'm ready to carve my own path.
Eager for a fresh start, I make a somewhat unorthodox decision and move to a tiny town in the Sierra foothills. I'll be taking care of a centuries old house that called to me when I was a kid. It's just temporary, I tell myself. It'll just be for a while.
That is, until I learn what the house really is, something I never could've imagined.
Thankfully forty isn't too old to start an adventure, because that's exactly what I do. A very dangerous adventure that will change my life forever. I have a chance to start again, and this time, I make the rules.
Why have I never read anything by Breene before? Magical Midlife Madness is funny and cute and I loved it. Alright, maybe Jessie being in her 40s helped too, even though I question 40s being middle-aged, I certainly don’t feel middle-aged, but Jessie does seem to have more creaky joints than I do. But 40 is definitely not too old to start a new adventure and I love that Jessie goes for it. I also adore that her “team” is older too.
Recently divorced and in need of a do-over, Jessie accepts a position as caretaker of Ivy House, an old mansion she visited as a teen. Between the strange butler, groundskeeper, and talkative next-door neighbor, things seem more than a little crazy.
We’ve got plenty of paranormal characters, shifters, gargoyles, a vampire, an alicorn, and who knows what else. We’ve got a touch of romance that I assume will progress as the series continues. Best of all, we’ve got a feisty, snarky heroine who is learning to be confident in herself.
I admit, after reading this I immediately picked up the second in the series. I had to know what happens next, since this one only resolves one piece of things.
About K. F. Breene
K.F. Breene is a Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Washington Post, and Amazon Charts bestselling author of paranormal romance, urban fantasy, and fantasy novels. With over four million books sold, when she’s not penning stories about magic and what goes bump in the night, she’s sipping wine and planning shenanigans. She lives in Northern California with her husband, two children and out of work treadmill.
Loving the cover and what sounds like a truly memorable cast of characters.
I was honestly surprised by how much I enjoyed it. It has been a while since I read a paranormal romance of any kind so that might have been part of it too.
This one’s been on my radar too! I was looking for a neww Urban Fantasy series and someone recommended this. Glad to see it lived up to all its promises for hilarity and mayhem.
I was surprised by how much I loved it.