Title: Damsel Under Stress (Book 3 in the Enchanted, Inc series)
Author: Shanna Swendson
Genre: Women’s Fiction, Urban Fantasy
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Year: 2007
Pages: 306
Acquired via the Link+ system at my friendly neighborhood library.

These books are becoming more and more irresistible to me in the worst possible way.  The last book irritated me beyond believe, but the ending hinted that there would be more of dreamy wizard Owen Palmer, so I had no choice but to read on …

And I was right, this book had it’s fair share of the handsome yet mysterious and extremely nerdy Owen.  But Katie didn’t seem to learn her lesson.  And while I adored her Southern charm in the first book, Enchanted, Inc., it has been wearing on me and I couldn’t really stand it any longer in this installment.  I kind of wanted to slap Katie and shake her until she realized that she was being kind of stupid.  But I guess when you’re living in the midst of a magical war that you’re trying to keep from your very best friends and family, things can get a little muddled.

And if things didn’t get shaken up a little, this book wouldn’t be possible.  And the adventurous aspects that I felt were missing in the last book were definitely present in this one.  We get a lot more magical mayhem; possibly more than we might actually want.  But the gem of this book is the blossoming love story. I only wish after reading this book that Owen Palmer was a real man.  I love it when a book can make you fall for its leading man.  Again, I also loved the glimpses of city life in New York, especially since this time we got to see New York around Christmas time.

While this book had its flaws, I was still frantically turning the pages to find out what would happen next.  I’m definitely going to be picking up the next installment, Don’t Hex with Texas very soon so I can find out what happens next.

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