Industrial Magic - Kelley Armstrong

Meet the smart, sexy supernatural women of the otherworld. This is not your mothers coven... Kelley Armstrong returns with the eagerly awaited follow-up to Dime Store Magic. Paige Winterbourne, a headstrong young woman haunted by a dark legacy, is now put to the ultimate test as she fights to save innocents from the most insidious evil of all.. . . In the aftermath of her mothers murder, Paige broke with the elite, ultraconservative American Coven of Witches. Now her goal is to start a new Coven for a new generation. But while Paige pitches her vision to uptight thirty-something witches in business suits, a more urgent matter commands her attention. Someone is murdering the teenage offspring of the underworlds most influential Cabals a circle of families that makes the mob look like amateurs. And none is more powerful than the Cortez Cabal, a faction Paige is intimately acquainted with. Lucas Cortez, the rebel son and unwilling heir, is none other than her boyfriend. But love isnt blind, and Paige has her eyes wide open as she is drawn into a hunt for an unnatural-born killer. Pitted against shamans, demons, and goons, its a battle chilling enough to make a wild young woman grow up in a hurry. If she gets the chance.

Published: 2007-03-27 (Spectra Books)

ISBN: 9780553590166

Language: English

Format: Paperback, 528 pages

Goodreads' rating: -

Genres

Urban Fantasy Paranormal Romance Witches Romance Paranormal Fantasy

Reviews

Lorena rated it

½Industrial Magic is the fourth installment in Kelley Armstrong's urban fantasy series titled Women of the Underworld. The focal point of this story is once again the witches, which very much disappointed me. On the plus side, Elena, Clay, and Jeremy re-enter the storyline after a bit THANK GOD! ...but it just wasn't enough for me. To be clear, it's not a bad story/book/series, but it's certainly not the engaging shifter world I thought I was entering when I started. I have to say I'm out. I love the urban fantasy genre but storylines that center on witches rarely spark my interest for some reason. I really, really tried to find some kind of investment with these non-shifter characters but it's just not working.Peace out -

Terry rated it

3.5 StarsSo far this is the book I have enjoyed the least. But it is not an easy book to review. The reason for this is that I enjoyed some parts way too much while others got me so bored. Making it short, the first half of the book was boring as hell while the 2nd half was amazing.In the first half we have Paige helping Lucas to resolve some assassinations happening to the teenage offspring of the underworld's most influential Cabals workers. While this was interesting at the beginning, it got extremely boring later as the assassinations kept happening for all the first half of the book. One kid after another got killed and not any informations was found. It just felt like one killing was just as the other and the author was trying to fill pages because seriously NOTHING else happens. NOTHING. 300 pages of kids being killed and no one getting close to find any solutions for it.But then the 2nd half came, and EVERYTHING changed! And boy did it change. It got so much better I could not even believed I was reading the same book. Seriously, so far the best thing I have read in the series (The 2nd half of the book I mean). In it we see a lot about all the different species, also we see all the main character trying to resolve the case together and Benicio getting closer to Lucas & Paige. I love Benicio and all the characters. It has been so long since I read a series that totally drowns me in it. I can't stop thinking about this series. I love the plot and I love the characters and even though there's almost no romance in it I still can't put it down! There's so much more I need to know. I'll start next book right away! I'm so hooked.It's funny because at the beginning of the book I was thinking I was sick of Paige and I didn't need to read anything more about her and now I just can't stop thinking I need so much more. I love all this characters!

Brit rated it

"Industrial Magic" is another installment of Kelley Armstrong's "Otherworld" series, and it is an engrossing read, for sure. In this book, Paige and Lucas team up for the first time since becoming a couple, and they find themselves facing a child-murdering entity. In order to solve the crimes, and bring the killer to justice, they team up with some of their supernatural friends - some werewolves, necromancers and vampires. The bond between the witch, Paige, and the sorcerer, Lucas, deepens in this story and the reader finds that they truly love each other, and would do anything (literally, anything) to help save the other. We also see the dynamics between the other supernaturals intensify in this installment, as well, giving the reader a better understanding of all the characters, and how they can relate to, and work with, others. All in all, this is a fascinating, and sometimes horrific, tale; but it also brings humor, love and everyday life into a supernatural world filled with magic and whimsy.