Reviews for Mowana Magic

The average rating for Mowana Magic based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2018-03-26 00:00:00 William King [ The stepmother begins a romance. The hero's half sister falls for a suitable man, rather than the fortune hunter. The fortune hunter sets his sights on the OW. The heroine is so angry at the hero that she throws an ornament at him and knocks a painting off the wall to reveal a safe - with unopened letters from the hero's mother. Hero's father had lied about his mother - she did care. Hero can now love again. In a one paragraph epilogue, his long-lost mother attends the H/h's wedding. HEA (hide spoiler)]

Review # 2 was written on 2018-08-12 00:00:00 Karen Admon Four stars for the heroine despite the misogynistic, male chauvinistic hero. The heroine on the outside The heroine really� The heroine is more than a Mary Sue, she is an out and out Pollyanna. The first person Pollyanna meets when she gets to the Outback is the Big Fat Jerk aka the hero. Too bad as several years and about 25 pounds ago, he caught her getting chased around a desk by a diminutive lech that was unfortunately married to one of the H�s relatives. The H won�t believe her when she says she was innocent. It�s present day, she wised up, slimmed down, and she�s an up and coming model with good girl morals and a can do attitude. P�s there to provide moral support to the H�s half-sister who�s pining for man the H thinks is a bad news. She really, really hopes the H doesn�t remember her, but the ridiculous accusations start up right away. At the estate, the sister and her poor, pitiful mother are happy to see her, but the whacked out, pyscho bitch-from-hell evil OW is NOT!!!!! Never fear, potential readers, the heroine is no spineless dweeb who turns the other cheek, bites her lip, suffers in silence, etc�There isn�t a moment when she does not stand up for herself and all the shinola the OW tosses her way. The top drawer evil OW� One of my favorite slap downs is when the top drawer OW says she�s been riding since she was three, and the heroine�s response is she must be glad she�s not bowlegged. The evil OW is relentlessly and in your face bad and sets the heroine up in a variety of ways. She helps make the book, but only because the h foils her in every way. Pollyanna boosts the morale of the stepmother to the point she gets a makeover and more importantly tells the OW off in the most ladylike way as she tells evil OW that she is essentially a two-faced beeyotch that learned at her mother�s knee and really needs out to hightail it to her vast estate to get a dress to the party they may not invite her to. Sadly the hero rears his handsome head on occasion, and he puts the Rico Suave moves on the heroine. The h is wildly attracted to him but is not up for an affair with a man that has so little respect for women. (His mother left when he was six, and his father was cold and heartless.) Typical push-pull and some nice banter. It all comes to a head at the fete that the stepmother asked the h to organize. The evil OW�s equally evil mother swoops in and threatens the h who doesn�t take it lying down. More manipulative setups that fail, and the H confesses his love. I�m going to close my eyes, click my heels, cross my fingers and just hope he lives up to his admission of love and faith. No official epilogue, but the last few paragraphs provide a happy twist that gives up for a real HEA. I really enjoyed the book for a wonderfully fun heroine and her managing Martha ways as well as the writing. The romance is secondary.