Ever pick up a book out of curiosity and have it surprise you? I’m not usually a fan of shifter romance these days. In fact I used to edit a lot of it as an editor a few years back and it exhausted me on the genre. That is to say it is a rare occasion to see one on my blog and you shouldn’t expect more recommendations for them from me. I also don’t usually enjoy alpha male stories which seem to be popular in this genre. However, Magical Midlife Madness hooked me enough to get me to read. This delightful book by K.F. Breene is available in Kindle Unlimited.
“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.
What I liked about this book is that Jacinta is an experienced woman who knows exactly what she wants. She is starting over after her divorce on her terms. She also doesn’t lose her head over the local alpha male hottie, Austin. Jacinta finds herself tangled up in a world of shifters and magic that she didn’t know existed, but she makes her own decisions. Having this experience woman who didn’t lose her head over handsome men came as a breath of fresh air for me. I’m also a sucker for magical house stories and humor.
Overall I’m a fan of this genre in fantasy of midlife books, although I had no idea of what to expect going in. I’m going to have to look at other similar books and give some more midlife stories a shot. Anyone have a favorite you’d recommend?