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    Dime Store Magic
    Dime Store Magic
    Dime Store Magic
    Audiobook11 hours

    Dime Store Magic

    Written by Kelley Armstrong

    Narrated by Laural Merlington

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    About this audiobook

    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.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateJun 23, 2008
    ISBN9781400177424
    Dime Store Magic
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    Kelley Armstrong

    When librarians finally granted Kelley Armstrong an adult card, she made straight for the epic fantasy and horror shelves. She spent the rest of her childhood and teen years happily roaming fantastical and terrible worlds, and vowed that someday she'd write a story combining swords, sorcery, and the ravenous undead. That story began with the New York Times bestselling Sea of Shadows and continues with Empire of Night. Armstrong's first works for teens were the New York Times bestselling Darkest Powers and Darkness Rising trilogies. She lives in rural Ontario with her husband, three children, and far too many pets.

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    • 3/5
      I read No Humans Involved before I decided to start the whole series. Although I loved Dime Store Magic, I felt it didn't show as much control and careful planning as Armstrong's later books have, but I still loved it and enjoyed it to the very last page. As always, I couldn't put it down.

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    • 5/5
      Kelley Armstrong is a progeny when it comes to supernatural writing. Her books leave you breathless with their racy romances, the constant struggles, and the exciting stories. She does all of this effortlessly and you have no choice but to plummet without stumbling straight into her world. She has created such a strong presence in all of her characters that everything about them makes them seem real! You get so caught up in their stories that you feel you are a part of them. I cannot say enough good things about Kelley!

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    • 2/5
      I believe I would have liked these characters more if I had read the second book in the series; instead, it was just a bunch of unpleasant people thrown at me at the beginning. It did get a bit better further into the book, so I'm glad I stuck with it.

      I truly dislike Savannah, the teenager, and I don't like how Paige, the heroine of the tale, interacts with her. Why wouldn't you tell a 13-year-old that she almost got a friend of hers killed due to her recklessness--especially after she does it again? This kid feels no compassion or empathy; it seems like an important thing for a guardian to address when she keeps doing violence to people without remorse. Over and over again, she manipulates people and puts them in danger, but there are no consequences. I kept wishing Paige would just grow a backbone and act like the adult in the equation.

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    • 3/5
      Paige Winterbourne is the leader the the American Coven of witches – at least in name. She is also guardian to Savannah, a young, very powerful witch whom the coven doesn’t like. When she gets caught in a custody battle over Savannah, she finds out just who her enemies are.A decent addition to Armstrong’s Women of the Otherworld series – the characters were also in Armstrong’s Stolen. While the book is very readable and the story interesting, Armstrong tries to pack too much into the story and the reader becomes distracted.
    • 4/5
      This was a great book. I really like Kelley Armstrong as an author. This title focuses more on Paige the Witch instead of Elena the Werewolf as the first two did.
    • 3/5
      Dime Store Magic is Kelley Armstrong's third Women of the Underworld book, and so far, the weakest. After such a solid debut with Bitten, I was really surprised that DSM ended up being a lesser story. The romance felt obligatory, the complexity of the levels of demons and witch magic made me wish for the simplicity of the werewolf pack in the earlier books, and Lucas Cortez's dialogue was painfully stiff and formal. The various conflicts all felt manufactured and forced - no one's motivations really made sense. I liked the continuation of Savannah's and Leah's stories, carried forward from [book:Stolen], but I'd really like to get back to books about Elena.All that said, I still gave it three stars indicating that it was an entertaining read, but I hope Kelley Armstrong gets back in shape after this book.
    • 4/5
      This is Kelley Armstrong's third book in a related series, which started out with werewolves and has now moved onto witches. I have really enjoyed all the books in this series and am looking forward to Industrial Magic, the next in the series.
    • 3/5
      If we had half stars I probably would have given this 4.5 simply because I miss Elena and her pack. But it's still an outstanding book with a great story. When Paige showed up in Stolen I didn't think I would care much for her books but I couldn't have been more wrong. I'm really looking forward to the rest of this series!
    • 4/5
      I don't know if it was the audio book itself or just my copy but it kept skipping the last few seconds of each chapter. It was very jarring. Made it a bit annoying to get through.
    • 3/5
      This third book in Kelley Armstrong's Women of the Otherworld series moves away from the Werewolves Clay and Elena and switches to the story of Paige the Witch.

      To be honest, I wasn't that crazy for Paige's story. Not because I wanted to stick with the Werewolves (although that would have been fine too), but because I just didn't really like Paige much as a character. She was tasked with parenting the 13 year old Savannah, daughter of the recently deceased Eve, and the way the story tells it Savannah is a brat. Actually, I thought Savannah had the right end of the stick in most of the escapades and Paige would have done well to just suck it up and listen to her now and then. Not only is Savannah a more powerful witch, she's quicker on the up-take and it would seem that despite only being 13 she's also more adept at reading the 'signals' where romance is involved. Paige just strikes me as a really weak woman.

      However, in her defence she did come good at the end.....barely. She appeared to have a normal, loving relationship with her caring (late) mother, so why did she find it virtually impossible to show affection for Savannah the child in her care? She wasn't cruel but she was hardly the demonstrative type. Would a cuddle now and then have killed her?

      Overall I get the impression that although this is the 3rd book in the season, this was actually written first. It doesn't seem to have the same style as the first 2. For all the subject is different, it just feels less well crafted.

      At the end I'm left wondering what the people round here would make of Paige, if the story was set here.....I'm pretty sure nobody would take any notice to be honest. Some crazy woman who it's claimed is a witch with evil powers? Riiiight. That would have the whole town camped on her front door round here.......I don't think. People just wouldn't and don't care about that stuff enough, I don't think.

      But still - I'm definitely going to read the next follow on's. Just because I didn't love Dime Store Magic doesn't mean I'm giving up. It was an OK story and I didn't hate it, plus I expect I'll need the info in this one in order to enjoy the others.
    • 4/5
      Dime Store Magic - a fun book for passing time! Recommend!
    • 5/5
      A change of pace from the last two books. We've moved from Werewolves to Witches - via Sorcerers and Shamans (oh, and the odd necromancer).Paige and Savannah were in the previous book, Stolen, but they were not especially major characters - so it's nice to see them develop in this book.As I said - a change of pace and less frenetic than the "Pack" books, but it is still a very very good book. I really didn't like Paige in Stolen but warmed to her in this book and I'm looking forward to following her in the next book - Industrial Magic.I would heartily recommend this series of books to anyone.
    • 4/5
      This is the 3rd in Kelley Armstrong's Women of the Underworld series. Books 3 and 4 are narrated by the witch, Paige Winterbourne, and I like them the best of the five I've read in the series.At age 23, Paige finds herself head of the Coven of witches and guardian/adopted mother of the powerful young witch, Savannah. The two come into conflict as the rest of the Coven dislikes Savannah and wants no part of her. Meanwhile a powerful sorcerer and a half-demon woman are trying to take custody of Savannah Paige isn't sure where to turn, but the appearance of Lucas Cortez, determined to act as her lawyer, is just too good to be true.Again lots of suspense and action, but also the building up of good characters. Recommended.
    • 3/5
      Read June 2006. After Elena and Clay - getting into Paige took me a while. But it was totally worth the effort! Armstrong's writing is stong and entertaining.
    • 4/5
      Little too much 'teaching' going on. Rather than have the details of what/why Demons are, or how sorcerers and witches ended up enemies as part of the story, Armstrong has 1 or 2 page 'lessons' interspersed in the story. Just like a little educational infomercial interrupting the regularly scheduled story.That and there's a heavy-handedness about the 'discriminatory' practices in the book: to the point where it's evident that that author has an issue with discriminatory practices in 'real' life... if you changed every reference to sorcerers to the name of a racial minority and to witches to a racial majority, you'd see the author's political leanings quite well. In a fantasy book, I don't really want to know the author's politics. That, and Paige is a bit too whiny for my liking. I prefer heroines who are competent without complaining about it all the time.
    • 3/5
      *MAY CONTAIN SPOILERS*This is the third book in Kelley Armstrong's "Women of the Otherworld" series and I must say, this is my least favourite book (as of yet) in the series. This book is narrated by Paige, the "know it all" witch we meet in "Stolen". When I first met Paige in "Stolen", I did believe that she was a somewhat annoying character, but then again I can now say that in the first two books I was biased against the other female characters as I loved "Bitten" and Stolen's" main character of Elena Michaels so much more than the other women.Going into "Dime Store Magic" I tried to put aside my preconceived notions of Paige and I do believe that I was successful... To a point. I personally found Paige to be way too 'happy housewife' for me, I like a girl who isn't afraid to kick butt... Paige is very much a homebody- she has the cookies and milk ready for when the kids come home, she is constantly backing,and she only wears skirts as jeans are beneath her. Though I believe that more people can relate to Paige than Elena, I much prefer Elena.And as I love Elena so much, I love her partner Clay just as much (most likely more though- him being all Greek god-ish). Introduced in "Dime Store Magic" is the male counterpart of Paige, Cortez. To sum it up, Cortez is as interesting as a sack of potatoes. At first I thought that Cortez had potential when he knocked on Paige's door to offer her his assistance, standing there shuffling his papaers about, afraid to meet her eyes... I thought he was going to be some loveable dork, but alas, that was not the case. I think what bugged me most about Cortez is his language. Yes, I understand that he is a lawyer and a professional, and therefore he has to uphold a certain persona. But really? He doesn't drop the act whatsoever, you think he would lighten up a tiny bit when he was no longer in a professional setting (like the conversation between Paige and Cortez where Paige is trying to figure out what university Cortez went to. A completely unnecessary scene and in the end we don't even find out where he went!).And what I like even more about Kelley's books is the passion between the male and female leads. And I must admit, that there is no passion whatsoever between Cortez and Paige. They have no chemistry and though there is a 'sexy scene' it seems entirely forced and more than a little awkward. There is really nothing in played out in the book that shows that either is experiencing feelings for the another, save for a scene where Savannah tells Paige that Cortez kept asking Savannah if Paige was interested in her best friend Adam. I kind of wish that there was something between Adam and Paige, just because he is so much more interesting than Cortez.I am looking forward to getting to the sixth book in this series (where a. Paige will not be a lead and b. where Elena will be)...***MAJOR SPOILER***I think that this lack of chemistry is especially complexing when we find out in "Tales of the Otherworld" that Paige and Cortez get married?!? I just cannot imagine it...
    • 5/5
      Magically, the best so far...., December 14, 2008 By S. McCullough "pacey1927" (Indianapolis, IN) - See all my reviews "Dime Store Magic" is the third in Kelley Armstrong's Woman of the Otherworld series. The first two volumes focased on Werewolf Elena, and the two main characters in this story were introduced to readers in Elena's story "Stolen". In "Stolen" someone was kidnapping various supernatural beings for nafarious studying. Paige Winterbourne, a witch, met Savannah Levine, another kidnapping victim. Savannah is a powerful black magic witch who is only thirteen years old. Her mother is killed and Savannah is left orphaned, with powers she doesn't know how to control. Paige takes over guardianship of Savannah, when the group escapes. "Dime Store Magic" takes place around a year after the conclusion of "Stolen". Paige is the leader (in name) of the Coven of Witches but because she believes in stronger spells than they approve of, and because she is mentoring a 'black' magic witch, there are some riffs between her and the other members of the Coven. Now a half demon Leah has found Savannah's father and is threatening to have custody taken away from Paige. Savannah's father is a powerful man and heavilty relies on black magic. Savannah meets up with Lucas Cortez, a powerful man in his own right, who also happens to be a sorcerer and a lawyer. In the course of this "custody" battle, Paige is accused of several increasingly horrible crimes, including murder. I find myself wanting to give away more details of this fabulous tale, but I don't want to spoil it for anyone. I found Paige to be more likeable than Elena as a main character. I enjoyed reading about her spells and her interactions with Savannah. I also found their relationship completely realistic and beautifully written. Savannah is a typical hormone driven teenager, who just happens to be able to cause extreme chaos when she has her mood swings. Lucas Cortez is charming, funny, and earnest. I would love to learn more about him and his past, as well. The action in "Dime Store Magic" is relentless. These characters hop from one situation to another, almost without pause. (The scene in the funeral home was one of my all time favorites..its creepy and exciting at the same time). A lot of action stories lack good character development but Ms. Armstrong does a supurb job of fleshing out both of those. I feel like this is probably only the tip of the iceburg as far as where the future of Paige and company can go. Kelley Armstrong is smarter than a lot of series authors in my opinion. While some of my favorite series are starting to get stale, she had the smarts to alternate main characters with different powers. This is a great way to stay fresh in today's increasingly peramormal fiction marketplace. This is a must read.
    • 4/5
      Heir to witch coven, Paige Winterbourne takes on a young neophyte with budding powers for good or evil. who will win?
    • 3/5
      I know that I put a 3, but this is more like a 3.5 star review. The first time that I tried to read this book was long ago and I did not like it because I wanted more of the main character from the first two books in the series and I did not realize that the series would switch back later. That annoyance meant that I couldn't make myself keep reading. This time I got around that by listening to the audio. I liked the book, but I wasn't fond of the reader. They made voices for each of the characters, which is usually nice, but I hated the one for the kid, and Paige's voice didn't match her actions, so I'm guessing that the reader chose to interpret phrasing differently from the author.
      First, Paige is pretty cool, even if I'm not fond of how high strung she is in some places. I really like that she gets better at curbing her urges to control everything later in the book. Since she's basically a single parent by adoption in this story and really into reading I really related to her. I don't miss my days as a single parent, and doing it as the parent of a preteen sounds even more awful. Give said preteen the power to curse things when they hate the world and you have a recipe for "fun" parenting moments. This is the story of a custody battle between Paige and a blood relative of Savannah who really had no business going about it the way that they did.
      All in all this is a fun book, though pretty different than the first two. I find the people in the first two a bit more interesting, but I find that Paige is honestly more like me. I'm looking into continuing the series now that I've passed my last road block, but I really do hope that the next book has a better reader in audio. If the next audio uses the same person I might set it aside.
    • 3/5
      I sometimes like Paige and other times I can't stand her. Savannah is a snot but typical 13 year old, Lucas is adorable. I'm not a huge fan of this part of the otherworld series. I really like Elena and the werewolves
    • 5/5
      Dime Store Magic was my introduction to Armstrong's Women of the Otherworld series told in first person by various female characters. I didn't feel lost even though I hadn't read the two previous books, Bitten and Stolen, although obviously if you start here you'll encounter spoilers for both those books. This book and the next which deal with Paige Winterbourne and Lucas Cortes are my favorites--maybe because of early imprinting, granted, but those two are my favorite characters in the series, and I prefer them to the central couple in the first book. I enjoyed seeing the action from Paige's first person point of view--I prefer her voice to the smart ass female first person voices in urban fantasy. I liked the supernatural world Armstrong created here in this series and this one is a great read with an engaging heroine. No, it's isn't a great fantasy classic a la Lord of the Rings or Good Omens--it's ranked five stars because its a genuine favorite of mine--the kind of read you love because the characters are good friends.
    • 3/5
      Much better than I expected, I didn't like Paige in the last book but the plot of this one moved fast enough that it carried her through.
    • 4/5
      After the first two books were about Werewolfs, this change of characters threw me.... I think I would have enjoyed it more had the previous books prepared me for the change. But it was still a good book.
    • 2/5
      Kindred, the masquerade meets Stephanie Plum. Even has a funeral home scene.
    • 3/5
      Loved the story but the wet lisping sound the narrator did after most sentences annoyed the shit out of me.
    • 4/5
      Strong willed women, great world to read about. Savanah the witch is becominga women and strong too.. Cortez is a doll.
    • 4/5
      Dime Store Magic is a well written, well thought out, enjoyable novel of witchcraft in the modern world. In the world created in the story, witches live in hiding afraid that they will be found and exposed, allowing their magic to wane over time. Paige Winterbourne is a 23 year-old witch who is the leader of her Coven, taking over from her mom. Part of her responsibilities include taking care of the teenage Savannah, who has a talent for dark magic. This leads to the attraction of dark forces, including that of her sorcerer father. Paige turns to Lucas Cortez, a geeky sorcerer for help.Dime Store Magic is a thoroughly enjoyable read. I liked the style and voice that Kelly Armstrong employed in this novel. It really fits the narrative and makes the story work. The plot is logical and well-developed. All together this was a strong novel and I look forward to reading more of Armstrong’s work.Carl Alves – author of Blood Street
    • 3/5
      I enjoyed this - the first I have read by kelly Armstrong. It had good pace, an interesting plot and a well developed reality.Not so keen on Paige - too much of the storyline depended on her naivete to advance, and I wanted to sigh and roll my eyes as she stepped into yet another obvious setup. I thought it was a shame that a potentialy strong likeable character was overshadowed by such dimwitted behaviour. Savannah was well written though(eerily reminded me of my hormone challenged 13 yo dd). A good mix of urban fantasy/paranormal and crime and an interesting world to be introduced to. Will be looking for more in the series.
    • 3/5
      Third in the series.Paige a witch and a minor character in Stolen takes centre stage. in this.she is fighting a custody battle for her ward Savannah. A battle that involves a lot of magic and dirty tricks. Can she trust her young lawyer? Heres a hint it's another romance.
    • 3/5
      Well, I like the characters in this book, but I have to say the plot was a little bit boring. I did appreciate getting some background info on the Cabals and the Coven, and there were a couple of surprises, but nothing major, nothing to make this book memorable. Hopefully the next in the series will have a bit more oomph to it.