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Eternal Magic Series: Magic For Hire #3 on February 25, 2025
Genres: PNR
Pages: 266
Format: eBook
Source: Advance Reader Copy, NetGalley
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Bestselling author Alexandra Ivy returns to her bestselling Magic for Hire series, where the witches of a small New Jersey bookstore go up against a subtle and gruesome evil—and one woman changes her destiny forever . . .
Maya Rosen has plenty of experience with vampires, demons, and danger. She wears the scars that prove it. But she established Witch’s Brew, her bookshop and mage’s office, as a cozy place of safety and protection. When the brutally handsome vampire Ravyr appears, decades after she thought he died in the ruins of her master’s lair, Maya is prepared for a fight. Until he saves her life instead—and they realize they have an enemy in common.
Hunting down violent goblins, treacherous mages, and drug-dealing aristocrats with Ravyr isn’t enough to make Maya trust him. She’s been betrayed before, and she knows the vampire isn’t telling her everything. But the attraction between them grows, even as their chase brings them closer to a terrifying possibility. Maya knows desire is its own magic. And with horrors from the past lying in wait, they’ll need all the power they can tame . . .
This is the third book in this installment, and it was my first introduction to the series. I will say that while I wasn’t confused per se, there were some moments that must have been acknowledgements to the previous books. This wasn’t a bad thing, and definitely made me want to read the entire series. But I just wanted to throw that out there so you guys know that the world building was done in previous books, however it’s easy to pick up on and you won’t feel lost. And can we all take a moment to appreciate the beautiful cover. The whole series is like this and flows so well together!
Maya Rosen is a very powerful mage. This world has witches and mages, and they are different with mages being more powerful. There are also vampires, demons, goblins, and other Others. She now runs a cafe called the Witch’s Brew and she also deals in spells and magic. I feel like she’s really living the dream. I would love to run a cafe and deal in magic in a backroom. Alas I am but a human lol.
Ravyr is a vampire who is pretty high up on the hierarchy of vampires and to top that off in this world vampires are the top of the food chain in general. However, the whole world thinks he’s dead. So when he and Maya are thrown together. it shocks Maya. They knew each other in another life, and the ending to that wasn’t pretty. That being said, Ravyr is willing to break his cover by saving Maya, and the two of them begin an investigation into who would want Maya dead. Turns out, kind of a lot of people.
There is so much more going on than the two of them think, and all of that hits them hard. They are hunting down someone dealing in an illegal and exotic drug, they are hunting down the assassin, or assassins plural, and trying to figure out how an old enemy fits in. The whole situation is becoming one big mess. But with two very powerful and very smart characters, we know they’ll figure everything out.
The sparks between them fly at every turn, and the excitement of the mystery keeps you turning pages far into the night. Alexandra Ivy is always a win.
***ARC courtesy of the publisher via Netgalley
