Breath of Magic

'Tristan Lennox – founder, CEO, and primary stockholder of Lennox Enterprises – offers one million dollars to anyone who can prove that magic exists outside the boundaries of science.

So, this book was goofy as hell, but probably obviously when it's about a twenty year old woman who is being tried as a witch and then gets transported to the futuristic 1996.

Arian has been shuffled around all her life, she never knew her father and her mother was a courtesan in King Louis IV court. When her mother marries a Puritan, the natural next step for a courtesan from Versailles, Arian is forced to be sent away from her grandmother and travels to America to be with her mother. Except her mother has died but the stepdad didn't get the romance show more genre memo about being wicked and isn't a bad chap, except he's a Puritan. So whoopsie, Arian now has the devil in her and is thought to be a witch. But hold on, Arian did make candlesticks dance around the dude's head, so saints preserve me, I had to kind of side with stepdad at this moment.

Before Arian's mother left one of her johns, she stole an emerald amulet and gave it to Arian. Whenever Arian clutches the amulet, whatever she wishes to happen, happens! Arian thinks she is a witch! But, Arian, my gal, it's 1680ish Witch Hysteria, let's be a little more careful. However, Arian did get the romance genre '90s memo about hot blooded heroines and she clutching that amulet for all she's worth.

Puritans always get the memo and the new Reverend in town is ready to drown a witch. Shocking, it's made out that he seems to have the hots for Arian and if she agrees to stay with him in his attic Red Room, he'll save her soul (I want you all to keep this hovering in your mind). Arian not about him and while they throw Arian into the lake to drown, this random Scottish woman (seriously, the most random character) steals back Arian's amulet from the Reverend and throws it into Arian's hands as she's drowning. Arian thinks a goofy rhyme/spell.

Arian's now in 1996 flying on a broom in the sky.

Bring in our billionaire who has put out a challenge to prove that magic is real with a prize of 1 million dollars. Arian shows up on her broom and crashes his party. The rest is probably obvious with 1600s Arian saying and doing goofy things when she doesn't understand 20th century things and slowly warming the heart of the cold cynical billionaire. There was some funny cute moments from this aspect.

He groaned. Christ, it was worse than he thought. He wasn't dying of a heart attack. He was falling in love with a witch. He didn't need a cardiologist. He needed an exorcist.

What wasn't predictable was the tie-in billionaire Tristan had with the amulet and a certain Reverend. I'm going to put the tie-in stuff in spoilers, so skip if wanting to be clueless going into reading Tristan made his bills as a tech genius inventing some super computer but has a cloud over him after his partner disappeared years ago and Tristan was found with blood on his hands. The partner's dad has tried forever to get him convicted but no body, no crime. The partner's dad is a ̶m̶a̶g̶i̶c̶i̶a̶n̶ illusionist (Michael!) randomly and lurks around being creepy. Somehow he knew the amulet around Arian's neck is...The WARLOCK!!!! Warlock was an invention by Tristan that would give you whatever you asked for while holding it. It disappeared with his partner the night his partner tried to kill him for it. Why Tristan started the magic competition, to lure his partner with Warlock out. Tristan has fallen in love with Arian but now he thinks she's in cahoots with his partner to take over his business and Arian goes through it as she realizes she's not a witch. It gets revealed that Arian's father is Tristan's former partner....AND THE REVEREND. Did you keep what I told you to in your mind??? I thought Reverend/partner didn't know he was her dad but when Arian gets sent back to 1600s, he reveals he knew??? And when Tristan time travels back to save Arian, Reverend/partner taunts he was going to go to the future with Arian and live as man and wife spending Tristan's money????? I don't know, y'all.

I can not write a coherent review of this book, I feel like only over mimosa brunch could I get out everything there was to ̶q̶u̶e̶s̶t̶i̶o̶n̶ ̶w̶i̶l̶d̶l̶y̶ talk about this story.

After the middle falling in love, rinse repeat of Tristan feeling betrayed then loving Arian, time traveling, and REVEREND WEIRDNESS, there was the eventual HEA. And a little thrown out maaaaaybe about Arian's witchy possibilities. show less

When the heroine is accused of witchcraft and sentenced to death-she frantically chants a spell and finds herself hurled forward in time to a strange and foreign place. There she meets the hero. He's a cynical-harsh and unforgiving man who's holding an open contest offering one million dollars to anyone who can prove to him that magic exists. Imagine his surprise when a small mousy woman suddenly comes flying in on a broom and smacks her head upon impact. For a brief moment he feels a sense of wonderment and intrigue for the strange woman and takes her back up to his penthouse on a whim. The heroine wakes up in a strange but beautiful world-surrounded by marvellous inventions. But it's the master of the tower that holds her attention. show more He is stunning but he's cold and demanding and when he makes it clear he's on a witch hunt she hides her abilities-not wanting to do anything to ruin the relative safety she now finds herself in. But soon, her temper betrays her and she shows him her powers-only to have him be amazing by her not repulsed as she imagined. The hero fought his growing love for the heroine like a bull-taking every single opportunity to push her away. Every thing she said or did that hinted at betrayal or lies was quickly capitalized on and the hero would flip from a gentle caring man to someone who could freeze hell with his coldness. It broke my heart to read constantly about the heartbreak the heroine suffered each time he went into one of his moods and put her down or stomped on her feelings. But she didn't make it very easy on herself. She was horribly innocent of the ways of the world she finds herself in and when she inadvertently stumble into one mess or another-I couldn't entirely blame the hero for reacting as strongly as he did. He was an insecure man who didn't have the comfort or love of a mother and who didn't have any friends in his life growing up and the one friend he did have tried to kill him. So one could see just how ignorant he was in the ways of bonding with another person. This book flipped constantly between a 5 star and a 4 star before I could finally settle on a healthy 4 star rating. There were certain things about this book that I didn't understand-mainly the relationship the hero had with his mother. She left him at an orphanage only to return later in his life when he amassed his wealth looking for hand outs. Yet at his wedding- she's like the long lost parent figure who truly loved him all along. I also fought to get through the ending where the hero and his attorney go back in time-I could have done without that. That being said, I was completely engaged in the battle between the two main characters as they struggle to find equal footing and peace with their growing feelings. I related to the hero-who is antisocial and cruel at times out of self preservation. As well as relating the heroine who is naïve and kind and just wants to be loved. Over all I really enjoyed this story. show less

Would-be witch Arian Whitewood is spied trying use her amulet to fly her broomstick in 1689 MA and tied and thrown into a pond to prove her guilt or innocence. Instead she is transported 300 years into the future. At that moment billionaire Tristan Lennox is offering a million dollars to anyone who can prove that magic exists. Into his garden drops Arian on her broomstick. Disillusioned Tristan attempts to prove her a fraud and Arian tries to claim the prize. It turns out the amulet is more than a magic token and is wanted by several people past and present. There are some great scenes involving Arian learning about modern technology and Tristan learning to value love. Fun read.

** spoiler alert ** This book is absolutely hilarious. Beyond just being a love story, this is the kind of love story that draws you in.

I'll admit I wasn't expecting much when I picked up this book, I purchased in just a bag of books and it as a romance by an author whose name I didn't recognize, but the cover image caught my eye and I thought well I already bought it, might as well read it before I send it off to someone else.

I was pleasantly to find this book was much more than I expec...more This book is absolutely hilarious. Beyond just being a love story, this is the kind of love story that draws you in.

I'll admit I wasn't expecting much when I picked up this book, I purchased in just a bag of books and it as a romance by an author show more whose name I didn't recognize, but the cover image caught my eye and I thought well I already bought it, might as well read it before I send it off to someone else.

I was pleasantly to find this book was much more than I expected. Arian who believes she's a witch in the 1600s own an emerald amulet which was given to her by her mother when she was a child. The amulet she believes enhances her own magical abilities. We're introduced to her when she's in the woods trying to take flight on a broom. After a few failed attempts she succeeds only to crash land face first in the dirt.

When she is caught practicing magic and being tried as a witch with a test by water she attempts to perform a spell to save herself from drowning. She doesn't drown but instead find herself transported through time to the year 1996 and just happens to show up in the exact spot of a competition to prove magic is real being held by the "boy billionaire" Tristan. The story follows their journey to overcoming distrust and falling in love.

Beyond that you share in the experiences of a curious girl from the 1600s experiencing the wonders of the mid 90s. She shut the water off to his fountain by running the show, the faucets and repeatedly flushing the toilet when she discovers indoor plumbing. She almost electrocutes herself when she sticks a spoon in a broken light bulb that's still attached to a plugged in lamp. She plays french lullabies on the key pad of the touch tone phone, attempts to find the people living inside the television and learns to play the piano from gang members in Harlem who she visits because she's hungry and she can smell their food. Her innocence and curiosity will keep you laughing from beginning to end.

If the humor and love weren't enough to keep you turning the pages the book includes a subplot filled with time travel, betrayals and intrigue. This is a definite must read.

I give this four stars only because some of the scenes are a bit far fetched and unrealistic, also it was a bit disappointing when you learn the real source of Arian's magic. Also I didn't like when she went into a distant third person or narrators voice in some scenes like in the end scenes where she writes, had they opened the door they would have seen... I found this a bit distracting. Overall however the book was still a page turner. show less

Is she or isn’t she?

Not my favorite by Teresa Medeiros, but it was light-hearted and fun. The hero is a bit inconsistent and I wanted to smack him over the head more than once, but he does always come through.

Loved it!! Such a great tale and wonderfully written. Loved the touches of humor!!

I did not Not Like this book, but I did not Like it either.....

Rather than become the mistress of the evil Reverend Linnet, Arian is about to be drown as a witch.... She finds herself under water with her magical emerald amulet drifting downward beside her. Grabbing the amulet, she mumbles a quick spell, shoots out of the water on her broom and lands smack dab in the middle of modern day New York.

Tristan Lennox is in the midst of debunking fake magicians, all wanting to claim the $1,000,000 prize he has offered to the first person who can prove that Magick really does exist.... There crashing his competition is Arian, broom afire, tumbling out of the sky.

What ensues next is an on-going conundrum of Sizzling Hot-Icy Cold emotions and show more temper flares.... Tristan trying to prove Arian is a fake, brings up his past.....murder of his best friend & business partner, whose body vanished into thin air.....

2.5 stars because...... there were just too many long-drawn-out over-emotional temper scenes for me to consider giving this book a 3 star rating. show less