Magic and the Modern Girl

by Mindy Klasky

Book Overview

Men come and go, but magic is forever...right? Wrong. After a few months of letting witchcraft slide, Jane Madison discovers that not using her powers has her rapidly losing them. Meanwhile, her warder is avoiding her, her familiar has moved out, her mother is abandoning her again and her grandmother is...getting married? With her world turned topsy-turvy, Jane is at her wits' end trying to set things right. Staking everything on a last-ditch spell...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0373895771
• ISBN13: 9780373895779
• Release Date: September 2008
• Publisher: Red Dress Ink
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 0.68 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.1" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

Best (Most Witchy) Book in the series

Honestly, the second book in this series seemed like so much of the same that I almost didn't read Magic and the Modern Girl. But to me, this book is absolutely the best of the series (so far). Not only does it have the most magical content, it has the most sensible plot and serious character development. How can Jane choose the right man for her if David Montrose is the only one in her life who hasn't turned out to be an unrealiable or deceitful type? What are Jane's real feelings about her mother? And does Jane really want to be a witch with her whole heart and soul? I look forward to reading the next book in the series, now that I've read this one. Klasky isn't Tolstoy, but I'm not always in the mood for Tolstoy. OTOH, I don't want to waste my time reading bad fluff when there is good fluff to be had. This is good fluff.

Keep 'em coming.

Magic And The Modern Girl is the third book in Mindy Klasky's series. Book 2 started to go downhill for me, but this book was just as good as the first. It was fast paced with some romance. Im looking forward to the next magic book.

lighthearted fun

In Washington, D.C. reference librarian Jane Madison left the coven because she was unhappy with the attitudes of many of her witch peers. She also decides to take a hiatus from spell-casting. Six months later, Jane tries her bewitching power only to be shocked as she has none. Adding to her dismay is someone destroyed her witching accouterments. Jane questions her feline familiar openly gay Neko and her best friend Melissa White, but learns nothing new except she is under a witch assault. Desperate she turns to David Montrose, her protector and astral bodyguard before summoning Ariel to restore her magical powers. Instead nothing goes right with the enchantment as Ariel has become an artsy celebrity with a little more than fifteen of almost famous. Soon Jane, her grandma and Neko are in trouble by an unknown assailant who wants her magically deboned while she goes out with architect Will Becker but wants instead her astral defender. The sequel to SORCERY AND THE SINGLE GIRL continues the misadventures of the chick lit witch librarian as this time she loses her power. The story line is lighthearted fun as readers, her familiar, her grandma and her astral bodyguard wonder what happened to Jane. Although the plot is thin, fans and Jane will want to know the answer to that key magical question. Harriet Klausner