The Trouble with Witches (Ophelia & Abby Mysteries, No. 3)

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This Mass Market Paperback Book item from Avon was reviewed on 10-Dec-2008.

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1) Mass Market Paperback Book The Trouble with Witches (Ophelia & Abby Mysteries, No. 3) by Avon. I loved the third book of the Ophelia and Abby mysteries!! The character development was so much better. I found myself glued to each page wondering what would happen next.¤

2) Mass Market Paperback Book The Trouble with Witches (Ophelia & Abby Mysteries, No. 3) by Avon. This is the 3rd book in the series. I don´t get a whole lot of reading time but I read the first 3 books of this series faster than I have read other authors that I always have enjoyed. It´s not the "weird" witch stuff that you come across around Halloween a lot more believable than most "magik" books.¤

3) Mass Market Paperback Book The Trouble with Witches (Ophelia & Abby Mysteries, No. 3) by Avon. I had read the first two, and I like this series, though it´s not my favorite. For me, this one had a bit of a slow start, but it got better as it went on, and I really enjoyed the ending.

Overall, I enjoyed the story and theme, but there is one thing that really bothered me. Ophelia is just starting to "come to terms" with her psychic "gifts", and based on her history, this is understandable. However, I can´t help feeling that if I was in her shoes, I would want to learn anything and everything I could about my gifts and what I could do with them. Ophelia doesn´t seem to be doing this. And given the fact that she´s a librarian, I simply can´t imagine why she hasn´t, at the very least, read the "magic" journals that her grandmother is pushing on her.

I enjoy the series, but Ophelia´s sometimes "odd" decisions and behavior keep this from being a favorite.
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4) Mass Market Paperback Book The Trouble with Witches (Ophelia & Abby Mysteries, No. 3) by Avon. This is actually the third book in the series. I haven´t read the previous two. It was never explained why Ophelia referred to her grandmother as Abby rather than gradma or something like that. That bothered me a bit. In this tale a journalist friend of Ophelia´s asks her and her grandmother, Abby to help him find a missing girl. The last known location of the girl was with a cult. Ophelia and Abby are not only psychic, but they are witches as well. Taking a vacation they head to the lake to check out the cult and try and get some idea where the missing girl, Brandi, might be.

Although there were several references to things that had gone on in earlier books, I didn´t feel I was missing out with starting at the third one. Told from Ophelia´s point of view, I didn´t get a good feeling for the depth of Abby. Abby seemed to be the all-knowing wise woman, and I would like to have known more of what was going on in her head. The perky, cheerleader type, best-friend, Darci was a little over the top. Perhaps if I´d read the other books, I might have made more of a connection with the character. Although, lacking that, she seemed superfluous to the plot. The plotting and pacing were good. I didn´t feel the story really bogging down at any point. Overall, I liked it.

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5) Mass Market Paperback Book The Trouble with Witches (Ophelia & Abby Mysteries, No. 3) by Avon. When Abby and Ophelia learn that a young girl has disappeared in PSI, a remote Minnesota commune of psychics, the pair of witches take a vacation to see if they can help locate her. They are quickly joined by Ophelia´s friend and employee, Darci, who loves an adventure as much as anyone.

What they discover is a small town with more secrets than just PSI, including a lakeside resident with a hit and run driving record, a Native American veteran with a justifiable anger at whites and a whole lot of shamanistic talent.

What breaks the trio´s heart though is learning another young girl, Tink, silver haired and lavender eyed, with strong talents as a medium who is being drugged and spelled to keep her talents in check.

The trio are in a desperate race to solve the mystery of what PSI is about so they can save both missing girls--and ultimately themselves. "Trouble" is moving away from the tea cosy mystery where the books started and into a bit more heavy mystery-paranormal.

Character growth for both Ophelia and Darci is very well done. Ophelia is beginning to accept her own magical gifts and through her acceptance, we begin to learn how her magical heritage works as well. Darci is also coming into her own, through Ophelia´s mentoring and showing herself to be a clever and intelligent person as well as a beautiful one.

The one-half star demerit is for a somewhat muddy plot. With the addition of so much local color and Tink´s plight, their original purpose sometimes gets lost. However, this is still a very well-written and interesting book and a valuable addition to the series.¤

6) Mass Market Paperback Book The Trouble with Witches (Ophelia & Abby Mysteries, No. 3) by Avon.

Ophelia has always considered her psychic abilities an imposition, except for those times she´s been able to put her paranormal talents to good use—like when a friend asks her to help find a missing teenager. Unfortunately it means she and Abby, her kindly, canny sorceress granny, will be taking to the road to pursue the vanished girl in the wilds of Minnesota.

The signs are pointing toward the secluded new age research facility of Jason and Juliet Finch, who live with their troubled—and possibly matricidal—thirteen-year-old niece. And a bizarre local murder that follows their arrival—plus the appearance of a mysterious Native American shaman—only emphasize the urgency of Ophelia and Abby´s hunt, drawing them into a web of dark secrets and to the last place they´d ever wish to be: a cottage in the woods where true evil quite possibly resides.

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