I am totally Enchanted by Bewitching! | Bewitching

A magical historical romance! | Bewitching | Jill Barnett

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	• Bewitching Jill Barnett Pocket, 1993 - 464 pages average customer review:based on 53 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

C+, Cute

If I were a fan of historical novels, this would have gotten bumped up a grade.

It's very cute. The story is adorable. The plot line is different than most of what I come across.

Jill, the protagonist is a bubbly, innocent, spitfire. Alec is a brooding, practical, nobleman.

Throw in few humorous episodes and you get this.

Would have been funnier had she accidentally exploded some elves. But I digress. That's just my twisted side.

Cute, historical novel.

I am totally Enchanted by Bewitching!

Pink roses, a hair eating weasel named Beezle, dancing statues on the roof, tree hugging, clocks that all told the wrong time and spells that go constantly haywire. This book has it all from start to finish. I'll leave the storytelling to the editorials and explain why this book is a must read! I've had this book for quite a few years now and I have read it so much the book is falling apart. Jill Barnett mixes a boat load of humor with an enchanting romance that makes this book just perfect. Be prepared to laugh out loud at some of the situations Alec and Joy find themselves in. Hilarious is too mild a word.

Little by little Joy chases away that cold, hard Duke that makes up Alec Castlemain. Alec is hard and controlling and joy is totally uncontrollable. A perfect combination that is pure magic!

It literally had me laughing and then crying. He is a hero that you can't help but pull for. He was brought up without knowing love and it takes him a while to realize that is what his life is lacking. He is not charming, but somehow he manages to do just that. His is a tortured soul and he needs Joy's love more than anyone ever did, and she is patient and loves him enough to fight for it. How anyone cannot find Joy a complete and utter, well, joy, is beyond me. She has so many qualities that make her endearing and lovable. You can't help but be drawn in. I found myself wincing when she would cast one of her disastrous spells, crying when she was hurt, aching for the need in Alec, and simply laughing out loud at her spells gone wrong. Even the secondary characters of Richard, Neil and Steven are well developed, thought out and lovable!

Jill Barnett's mixture of love and laughter is a winning one and it would be a pity to pass this book up. She is my favorite author and this is just a sampling of why! This book along with most of her other books have a permanent home on my bookshelf. Yes! It is that good!!

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A magical historical romance!

Bewitching is a lovely book. Joyous, bubbly, funny and magical just like its heroine Joyous MacQuarrie. Joyous is almost typical regency heroine; naive, a little accident prone, sentimental and worships her powerful, proper, rigid husband Alec who also happens to be a duke and incredibly cautious of his public image as a peer of the realm. If only that was the story, this novel would be no different that any other historical romance. But, in this story there is a slight twist: Joyous is a witch and a clumsy one to boot. Of course she tries to hide her abilities from Alec, unfortunately though things get out of hand and not only Alec but the whole household will soon realize what's going on. Alec, who has always hated scandal, tries desperately to keep the fact hidden from everyone and to keep his heart safe as well although both battles seem rather lost.
This is a lovely book, highly entertaining, and more humorous than your average historical romance (not Lyndsay Sands' kind of funny, just humorous mind you). I am more into dark, passionate and heart ripping tales but I enjoyed this one extremely. Highly recommended.

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She had bewitched the most serious, snobbish, and handsome Duke in England. Joyous MacQuarrie...the pixie-like, green-eyed beauty had appeared from nowhere and fell unashamedly into his arms. And all that his society friends knew of the mysterious lady was that she was Scottish and that her grandmother had been a Locksley. Even her fine bloodline didn't make Joy quite proper enough to be a Duchess, but a proud nobleman like Alec, Duke of Belmore, did as he pleased...and he wanted to marry the beautiful girl who aroused his desire.

But Alec soon discovered he could not do what he pleased with Joy Fiona MacQuarrie. Bubbling with laughter, filled with spirit, she turned stately Belmore Park upside down with merriment and strange occurrences. She might even have gotten Alec to laugh -- and to cherish her -- if it had not been for the truth she hid. Though he turned to fire when he tasted her petal-soft lips, he turned to ice when he discovered that this winsome lady was, in fact, a witch. A witch whose powers of white magic were not always perfectly under control....Too late, Joy knew she was desperately in love and that nothing could stop the course of their destiny -- the scandal threatening to destroy her and the passion that held them both spellbound in a forbidden, irresistible match of two enchanted hearts.

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