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Playing with Fire: A Magical Romantic Comedy (with a body count) (1) Paperback – 31 March 2020

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What do you get when you mix gorgons, an incubus, and the Calamity Queen? Trouble, and lots of it.

For Bailey, catering to the magical is a tough gig on a good day, but she has few other options. She can either keep spiking drinks with pixie dust to keep the locals happy, or spend the rest of her life cleaning up some of the world’s nastiest magical substances.

Years after helping Police Chief Samuel Quinn escape an unhappy marriage, Bailey is once again entangled in his personal affairs. To make matters worse, Quinn’s ex-wife is angling for revenge, tossing Bailey into the deep end along with her sexiest enemy.

Warning: This novel contains excessive humor, action, excitement, adventure, magic, romance, and bodies. Proceed with caution.

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Publisher : Pen & Page Publishing (31 March 2020)
Language : English
Paperback : 540 pages
ISBN-10 : 1949740633
ISBN-13 : 978-1949740639
Dimensions : 10.8 x 3.05 x 17.78 cm

Best Sellers Rank: 30,940 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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The best thing I have read in years

Reviewed in Australia on 15 January 2019

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Thoroughly enjoyed this book from start to finish. Quirky characters an amazing magic filled world and a story-line that keeps you intrigued from start to finish. I have read all the books in this series to date. Love them all, but this one is still my favourite - I have read it about 50 times so far.

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Bonkers and fun, fun, fun.

Reviewed in Australia on 25 November 2017

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Wow - this was flat out bonkers - and that's kind of what I liked about it. In fact - I would go so far as to say I loved the first 80% of the tale. The world created by the author was creative (though perhaps could have been explained a little simpler) - and Bailey, the lead, was a heroine that you are either going to love or hate.
Her mouth often gets away from her. And because of her weird powers she is often put in very unique situations - but the tale was never boring.
The romance was interesting. Though Quinn could have used some character development a little earlier in the telling.
The last 20% let the story down a tad - felt like we had been there and done that with all Bailey's verbal threats. And it seemed a rather convoluted way for her to fix the last problem - which was gone into in great depth - only then to have Quinn step up and do all the heavy lifting. So time waster.
Needed to be shorter - tighter - and then it would have been been a five star read definitely.

6 people found this helpful

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Worthy read

Reviewed in Australia on 21 February 2019

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This is a great read ,fast,not prissy, has a good story line which can be followed. Know a second is on the way and i am looking forward to the next episode

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Maggie Hurring

A keeper!

Reviewed in Australia on 26 February 2018

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Have just finished re-reading this book for the fourth time!! An indication on how much I love this book. Great story - lots of world building, great characters and loved the development between Blair and Quinn (or Queeny :)). This book is a complete story - so no cliff hangers. I would love an update perhaps - but happy with how it ended. Highly recommend this book!

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A hot mess that gave me a headache but still worth reading

Reviewed in Australia on 22 September 2018

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I love love love this world and it’s characters. The author is insanely talented creatively. Unfortunately their poor writing technique also makes this an exhausting book to read.
For a start, the author never stops world building. There’s enough detail for 3-4 books and it’s overwhelming. To make matters worse there are constant reiterations, as if the author is afraid the reader will miss one of the clever details. There was even a full recap of the entire plot at 75%. Yes, some details needed to be filled in but most of it was completely unnecessary and really slowed the story down. The author really needs to trust that the readers are clever enough to remember events with nothing more that subtle reminders. We also tend to have enough life experience to work out the more obvious character motivations for ourselves. It’s like putting on a feast that could feed 20 people, carefully labelling even the most common dishes with detailed tasting notes and then expecting 1 person to eat it all.
Apart from interrupting the flow of the story, excessive detail and reiteration also leads to a lot of unresolved threads. Why was Bailey left in the coffee shop for so many hours? Why was the building bombed and in such a manner when there are so many other ways the contagion could have been spread effectively? Etc.
If the author were to get themselves a quality style editor (or at least educate themselves), they could actually produce a best seller. Until that happens, I think I might avoid reading anything else. I genuinely have a headache.

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firey hot magical romance

Reviewed in Australia on 21 July 2019

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Magical cdc working barista gets rescued by her crush,lots of fire and a good napalm bender ensued

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megan lucas

Fun, action and magic

Reviewed in Australia on 17 May 2019

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I loved this book. The characters are great, the world is fantastic and it's funny. This is a world that I am thrilled to get lost in.

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Heather

Amazing

Reviewed in Australia on 25 October 2018

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I love these stories from R.J so much. The world she created is amazing, full of quirky characters that I wish I could meet.

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EllieWC

fun as well as bodies

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 29 May 2019

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There are just so many mythological creatures turning up in this novel - and each and every one of them has attitudes.
Especially when they encounter our heroine - a vanilla human - or is she? Who is a kick-ass snarky virgin. And it is this latter descriptor that brings her to the attention of the gorgon community.
We learn a great deal about the gorgon society in this novel and their mating habits, and also just who finds a use for succubus and incubus in their love life - and what happens when you get a incubus drunk in a bar.
And then there is also the Quinn family - I found the court room scene hilarious - don’t stop reading before you get there!
Lots of fun and hilarity in a nicely crafted mystery story, well written with an easy style - and no grammar or proofing mistakes obvious. Some Americanism in the verbs but I can accept that.
Enjoying this series very much.

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Good story, bit of a giggle and worth every penny

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 10 January 2018

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I don't write a lot of reviews but I really had to write this one to try to encourage others to try this author. I am a voracious reader and some books are good but not keepers. This is a keeper as are all her other books I have read so far. I must have read it five times and enjoyed it every time. It's even on my phone for those awful times when I am waiting in a queue and don't have a book! I know I'm not the only one who avoids not having a book to read at all costs!
Why do I like it so much? Well, the heroine is so dashed snarky, and funny, and bonkers. The book makes me laugh out loud and want to stomp around and not be a good little girl :)
The hero's pretty good too. Honest cop with a secret persona. Brill!
As I said, I read a lot and am used to the multi book paranormal series - nothing wrong with those, at all. RJB does write sort of series, books in the same world, but not sequels. Or if she does, you have to wait because she has a lot of series running at the same time, written under three names. Bit frustrating if you adore particular characters. But as a counterbalance, the books are longer than you'd expect from a paranormal novel and have a number of peaks in the story. And come to a satisfactory ending.

8 people found this helpful

Mary Heron

A bit confusing to start but worth persevering with

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 23 June 2019

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Written in the first person this is the story of Bailey a young woman who works as a barista and when not working finds things others have lost. Sounds simple, not that simple Bailey life sin a world where magic is a normal part of life ----- as are magical creatures------ some of the creatures byproducts can be dangerous to ordinary humans, such as, Pixie dust, creating a feeling of euphoria and Gorgon dust which can kill whole cities. To deal with these problems the CDC employs people who have the training to contain and clean up any messes. Bailey is qualified to clean any magical mess (no matter the danger) as she somehow has a natural immunity. Her life is a quiet some might say boring one until The day somebody decides she needs to die. The book throws you straight into Bailey's story without any preparations, there's no explaining the world Bailey lives in we have to lean about it as we go ------- hence the confusing start-------- but once the book gets into its stride it's great. Bailey is a wonderful snarky character, Quinn fits her perfectly and the situations she find herself in are highly entertaining.

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Diana Fleming

Starts out very well but turns into a bit of a slog at the end

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 30 August 2018

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I really loved this book when I first started reading it. The main character is likeable but interesting enough to hold your attention. The romance isn't too overwhelming and is balanced with a goodly amount of action. Where I began to get frustrated was about two thirds of the way into the book when suddenly the characters were spending entire chapters just talking. There was one chapter where they literally gave a blow by blow synopsis of the plot to date, leaving me wanting to ask the author, 'why are you telling me this? I just read it...'

Some of the world building gets a little overwhelming, I'm still not certain about how gorgons mate, but it wasn't a deal breaker. I could have done with less genealogy though.

The beginning of the book was good enough that I bought the next book in the series in the hope that the author overcomes whatever madness decended upon her at towards the end of the first one and perhaps skips over some of the finer details of gorgon mating rituals.

6 people found this helpful

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Superb

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 24 October 2017

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This book was an absolute blast to read. It had me hooked from the get go with the wonderful, snarky, sarcastic, bristly Bailey as the pivotal character. Her lack of brain to mouth filter, friendships with Professor Yale, Dr Perkins, and her relationship with the family challenged (you have to read it to understand it!) Quinn, this book is a complete hoot. Add in gorgons, fire breathing unicorns, succubi, incubi, angels, coffee, and pixie dust and you have a rollicking good read.

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