Blurb
Douglas needed a miracle. What he got was a genie…
Veterinarian Douglas McCandliss considered himself an ordinary kinda guy with an ordinary kinda life. He had no idea why he’d bought the old silver teapot, and when a young woman appeared before him claiming to be a genie, he almost wished he hadn’t. If only she wasn’t so damned cute.
Ebullient and cheerful, Jacinth loved granting wishes and helping people. So she was thrilled when her teapot’s new owner, a single father with custody of two young children, asked her to stay until he could find a nanny. The problem was, the longer she stayed, the more she was attracted to Douglas, and she was certainly not willing to turn over care of Ben and little Molly to just anybody. But she was a 900 year old genie, and had no intention of falling in love with a mortal man. None whatsoever.
Review
In book two of the Magic of Wishes & Dreams series, Jacinth is a carefree 900-year-old Djinn. After she meets her new sahib, her master of the bottle, she’s forced to finally grow up.
Successful vet Douglas McCandliss lost his children years earlier to their spiteful mother, and now, through a magical wish, he gets them back. But life isn’t going to be easy for this troubled family. Somehow, Douglas and the kids will have to convince their flighty Djinn to stay around for good.
This was a really cute opposites attract/quasi-age gap love story (by age gap, I mean the heroine’s maturity level, not her age). I teared up a few times and so wanted to hug Douglas and his poor kiddos. Both Douglas and Jacinth were strong, well developed characters, but I couldn’t really relate to her. Despite her advanced age, she often acted like a big kid. Douglas and even Jacinth kept thinking that she looked barely older than his six-year-old son, which was disturbing.
There are some punctuation issues, and I have no idea why a few words were underlined instead of italicized. There are also some inconsistencies, like: Suzanne is in charge of the cats at the clinic and then later Troy is in charge; and the newborn puppies’ eyes haven’t yet opened and then two paragraphs later the puppies have big eyes. I tend to edit as I read, so these errors popped out at me like red flags.
Anyway, this is still a fun story with a lot of emotional depth. With a good proofread, it could be great.
3 Stars
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