ARC Review: A Spoonful of Magic by Irene Radford

“Gosh, but I really disliked this book.”
~ Under the Covers

Daphne Deschants life seems perfect, she has a successful bakery business, three children she adores and a successful and gorgeous husband. However, things start to fall apart when she discovers that he has been cheating on her…and that isn’t the only thing that he is hiding from her. He isn’t the software wizard she thought he was, he is in fact a wizard and more than that he’s head of magical law enforcement and now the danger he faces at work looks like it has followed him home putting him and his whole family in danger.

Gosh, but I really disliked this book. I didn’t want to as there were some aspects, such as the world that Radford has set her story in that I really liked. I have always found magic fascinating and I liked the way it had been set up, however, there was one huge glaring thing that I absolutely hated about this book and it drove me crazy throughout the whole thing: G, the cheating husband.

Now, I know people are more than just one thing and just because a person cheats that doesn’t make them evil. And G wasn’t evil, he was just an absolute freaking arsehole, let me give you a list of the two main reasons I couldn’t stand him:

1. He basically bespelled Daffy when she was in college to fall in love with him so she would marry him. This wasn’t because he loved her…it was because he needed someone to take care of his young child and look after his house. If he hadn’t used magic and instead used drugs I believe we might be straying into the “rape” category, don’t ya think?
2. The cheating. Now, he didn’t just make a mistake once and he’s really remorseful and wants to try and win Daffy back because he knows what he did was wrong. Nope, apparently magic makes you horny once you’ve finished using it. So, when he was away he would just randomly fuck people to get rid of the his magical boner. And, in fact he does this in a few time in the duration of this book as well. Is he sorry? Nope. Does he ever apologise. Nope. My impression was that if they got back together that this would just continue and she would just have to deal with it. What. A. Dick.

But, it wasn’t just G that bothered me, although for the most part the more I learnt about G the more wound up I got, it was the weird way G and Daffy treated their kids, all of whose ages ranged from 8-15. They just randomly put them in danger. Face off with the big bad…lets bring the kids so we can use their power. It was just so weird for the normally protective and loving mother to put them in such blatant danger. G I could understand because he is a selfish bastard and seems to view things through the lens of how he could use them.

So, it’s safe to say I won’t be continuing on with this series, nearly everything in it annoyed the hell out of me, from the characters to the story line – but mainly the characters.

[about-author author=”Irene Radford”]

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