I love the memes that start every chapter. I think what I liked most was the way a real (but very unusual) ‘family’ is growing up around Defiance. The magical system moves on a little.Defiance’s lust for her leather kilt-wearing wolfman continues to amplify, going from a naughty fantasy to something a little more substantial. It’s easy to write off a book like this as light-weight nonsense but, like the choux pastry of the eclair, making something this light in tone while still carrying a story that develops characters and delivers moments of real drama, takes a lot of skill.īehind the banter and double entendre and the sustained but playful sexual tension, this is a story that has some gruesome things in it and which, eventually, requires Defiance to live up to her name and give some of the bad guys the violent retribution that they so richly deserve. Much of the book is spent with Defiance trying to claim that she’s lost her powers only to have circumstances make it essential that she uses them. They put a target on her back and they make her even less predictable than usual. In ‘Bewitched’ her problem is that she knows she has them and they scare her.
In ‘Betwixt’, Defiance’s problem was that she had no idea that she had magical powers. The book starts with Defiance waking from a sort of magical coma six months after the dramatic events at the end of ‘Betwixt’. It carries straight on from ‘Betwixt’ both in terms of the story and the raucous, just-this-side-of-smutty, humour-glossing-trauma-and-fear pantomime style of storytelling. ‘Bewitched’ is an eclair of a book: light, sweet, sinfully self-indulgent and too soon gone.
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