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Dime Store Magic (Women of the Otherworld) Mass Market Paperback – April 27, 2004

by Kelley Armstrong (Author)

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Book 3 of 13 in the Otherworld Series

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From one of today’s most original writers comes the mesmerizing tale of an exceptional young woman caught up in an otherworldly realm where some will stop at nothing to get what they want.

Paige Winterbourne was always either too young or too rebellious to succeed her mother as leader of one of the world’s most powerful elite organizations—the American Coven of Witches. Now that she is twenty-three and her mother is dead, the Elders can no longer deny her. But even Paige’s wildest antics can’t hold a candle to those of her new charge—an orphan who is all too willing to use her budding powers for evil...and evil is all too willing to claim her. For this girl is being pursued by a dark faction of the supernatural underworld. They are a vicious group who will do anything to woo the young, malleable, and extremely powerful neophyte, including commit murder—and frame Paige for the crime. It’s an initiation into adulthood, womanhood, and the brutal side of magic that Paige will have to do everything within her power to make sure they both survive.

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Unlike the Wizard of Oz, the witches in this sexy supernatural romance, including the murdered mother of 23-year-old heroine Paige Winterbourne, are not evil entities inhabiting a fairy tale land. They're an ages-old race of women so frightened by the possibility of exposure and endangerment that they've allowed their magical powers to atrophy. When Paige inherits her mom's mantle as Coven leader, however, she also inherits caretaking responsibility of Savannah Levine, an extremely gifted but rebellious 13-year-old who possesses her dead mother's penchant for dark magic-and for attracting the unwanted attention of darker magical beings (including Savannah's long-lost sorcerer father). The only person Paige can depend on is the one person she doesn't want to associate with: Lucas Cortez, an endearingly nerdy lawyer/sorcerer ("It was a sad world when a witch had to rely on a work-starved sorcerer for help"). As in Armstrong's debut novel Bitten, this story's special strength lies in its seamless incorporation of the supernatural into the real world. A convincing small-town setting, clever contemporary dialogue, compelling characterizations and a touch of cool humor make the tale's occasional vivid violence palatable and its fantasy elements both gripping and believable.
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"A convincing small-town setting, clever contemporary dialogue, compelling characterizations and a touch of cool humor .... This story’s special strength lies in its seamless incorporation of the supernatural into the real world."—Publishers Weekly

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Mass Market Paperback: 448 pages
Publisher: Bantam (April 27, 2004)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0553587064
ISBN-13: 978-0553587067
Product Dimensions: 4.2 x 1.2 x 7 inches
Shipping Weight: 8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (181 customer reviews)
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A little lackluster for me...but still a good read!

ByHeidi Hafneron April 17, 2014

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“Dime Store Magic” is the third book in author, Kelley Armstrong’s Women of the Otherworld series. It is written in a narrative first person point of view of Paige Winterbourne, leader of the North American Coven of witches. If you’ve read the other two books before this, you will have met Paige for the first time in “Stolen.” In fact, many of the characters in this book were introduced in book two.

This story picks up where “Stolen” left off. Paige takes Savannah, a powerful teenage witch, as her charge. It is her duty to protect Savannah and keep her from Cabals and black magic witches. This proves to be a difficult feat for Paige because Savannah’s father is a Sorcerer and leader of one the most dangerous Cabals on the West Coast. Nast, Savannah’s father employs the help of a telekinetic half-demon Leah, also introduced in book two, to retrieve Savannah and bring her to his Cabal.

Paige finds herself battling a legal custody case, sorcerers, black magic, media, and her own coven whilst protecting Savannah. She and Savannah, forced to align themselves with an unlikely ally – battle against all odds with an attorney/sorcerer named, Lucas Cortez.
As I read through this book, I found Paige to be very naïve and incredibly boring, albeit, she has strong morals and has potential to be a strong witch. Sadly, I think having Paige’s mother in this story would have added some substance to this story. Paige, knowingly, was not ready to be a stand in mother for Savannah. She was ill-prepared for the job. Paige really came across as a teen not much older than Savannah, to me.

This whole story, although well written, just seemed to lack substance. It was mostly a battle of wits and sure luck. I suppose I expected something more… like maybe Paige finding her magic deep within herself. I also thought there would be more romance in this story. Maybe half a chapter toward the end had a roll in the… uh… laundry. There was no build up to it. In fact, Lucas Cortez repulsed Paige! Then you turn the page to the next chapter and they’re rolling in the laundry. Sorry, but that seemed contrived at best.

In the end, Savannah and Paige, with Lucas’ help (the good), beat Nast and his minions (the bad), saving our heroes to live happily ever after.

As stated, the author writes well, develops the characters reasonably well, but the story just seemed bland to me. I think reading it is important if you’ve started the series, but truthfully, I don’t think you need any of the back story to get through this one. The wolves from “Bitten” and “Stolen” are not in this story, except for a phone call. That’s it. However, it is a great book to fill the need to read between other stories that you’re waiting for authors to publish.

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ByAmazon Customeron September 29, 2015

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This was a very good read. The relationship development between the characters felt natural. Paige is an interesting protagonist to read through, and her Coven mentality was perfect. The story's pace, in true Armstrong fashion, was on point, and never seemed to drag on. I loved how Savannah was written as a true blue, hormonal, conflicted teenager, and how it made it hard to like her sometimes: all in all, teenagers are sometimes hard to like, especially in difficult times, and I thought it was perfect, and a refreshing change. Some of the villains, however, seemed very one-note, but I am curious to find out more about the other Cabals in later installments. A must-read for the urban fantasy fan :)

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A good exploration into the witches world.

ByAmazon Customeron September 23, 2013

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This is the first time that we see Paige and Savannah at home together after the experience with the compound. I would have preferred to hear about Elena, but I understand that writing about the same characters book in and book out would be tedious and repetitive. Not to mention I kind of want to skewer Clay for his overprotective and overbearing tendencies. That aside, I do like Paige. She grows up and out of her annoying whiny self in this book, and I guess having your mother kidnapped and killed would do that to people. I don't think the romance was necessarily logical. She falls in love with a sorcerer, a race that witches, which Paige is, are supposed to distrust and avoid at all cost. Not to mention Lucas Cortez is not the most handsome man ever born, apparently he's described as average. If anything were to happen between them I think that it would have been much shorter lived on Paige's part or taken longer for her to get to the "love" stage. Wanting to rip his clothes off for protecting her legally and literally from crazy fanatics I'd understand better then that she was in love with him.