Charmed, I'm Sure [Paperback]

Liz Ireland (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 1, 2003

Callie Hauseman may be descended from a long line of somewhat ditzy witches, but the family magic certainly isn't working for her. Why else would this beauty be stuck in a dead-end job, socking away money to finish her college degree, while working for a complete tyrant of a boss? Callie doesn't really mean anything when she spits out a curse her Aunt Agnes used to say, but in an instant, she has changed her angry boss into an adorable golden retriever puppy. Now, panicked and desperate, Callie has to find someone to help her turn the dog back into a louse...before his handsome nephew starts sniffing around again.

Product Details

• Paperback: 352 pages
• Publisher: Zebra (March 1, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0821774743
• ISBN-13: 978-0821774748
• Product Dimensions: 6.9 x 4.2 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,004,077 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars contrived, March 6, 2003

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lovestoread "aquacies" (Springdale, AR United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Charmed, I'm Sure (Paperback)

I don't really know what to say about this book. I read it all - surprisingly. But throughout the whole book I kept thinking that something wasn't right. First off, David is engaged to someone else 3/4's of the way through the book. He acts like HE'S gone off the deep end and of course Callie is naturally going to be perceived as crazy when she tells him she's a witch who's turned his uncle into a dog! Even I, who mostly goes along with the "suspended disbelief" for the sake of the story found this very NON-believable. The main characters were too different for me to ever consider that they could have any sort of future together. Also, the time in the book seemed to jump all over the place. I got really confused several times with their time references. When I thought a certain amount of time had passed (and I'm talking days or weeks), suddenly we were way ahead or way behind what it seemed it should be. If you really want to read Liz Ireland, I suggest trying "When I Think of You" instead. It was MUCH better written, with a more believable and sweeter story.

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars You'll be Charmed too!, March 21, 2005

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Tracy Vest (Northern California) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Charmed, I'm Sure (Paperback)

I'll admit it - I was charmed by this book. Callie is a witch with what she thinks are not very strong powers. All bets are off when she gets mad at her shrewish boss, Sy, and turns him into a golden retriever puppy (just like the one she had as a child and named Sparky). Enter his soon to be married straight-laced nephew, David, and you have the makings of a screwball comedy with shades of "Bringing Up Baby." Of course, Callie cannot figure out how to return Sy to his natural self, so she needs to track down her aunts who are on a whirlwind tour of Europe, with a penchant for the polartec underwear they packed to take advantage of a winter voyage (so much so that they mention it in all their postcards home). And then suddenly, the cops are called in and foul play is suspected.

I loved the references to old movies and movie stars and the hysterical conversations between David and Callie. It was so funny how she exasperated him and drove him crazy, and why his attraction to her kept growing (if I had his fiancé to look forward to, I would want someone loopy too!) each time they spent time together. And even funnier when he starts to realize that maybe she is not the kook he thought she was.

If you are willing to suspend belief and take a chance of a whimsical romance, check this one out!

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Gaps... everywhere., August 21, 2005

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Lizbeth - See all my reviews

This review is from: Charmed, I'm Sure (Paperback)

Luckily, I picked up this book from the library. Naturally, it seemed that the book had potential, however failed to live up to it. Although a few of the other reviews have covered the majority of the problems, let me just sum them up: David spent almost all of the book thinking that Callie was crazy and flaky (which, for the most part she was) then, for the rest of the book, he believed himself to be out of his mind. The girl that David had been seeing for three years, who he had been living with for two, was engaged to him for most of the book also, way after meeting Callie. And his fiancée was the one who broke off the wedding. The time periods in the book were also pretty random- I would think that a mere day has passed when it turns out that it really was two weeks. Also, the whole magic thing did not work whatsoever in this book. Being a big fan of chick lit, I have to say I was disappointed. Definitely skip this one.