Open All Hours

Carnival Magic #2

by Eden Royce

Leesa Cobb has been cursed to shift form into a black cat. Can Vol, the owner of a nearby diner and a grizzly bear shifter himself, help her reverse the spell?

If not, can he convince Leesa that he wants her -- no matter what her species?

Kindle Edition

First published April 5, 2015

About the author

Eden Royce is a writer from Charleston, South Carolina now living in Southeast England. She’s a Shirley Jackson Award winner and a Bram Stoker Award finalist for her adult fiction, which has appeared in a variety of print and online publications.

Her books for young readers have received Walter Dean Myers Award Honors, and been recognized as a Bram Stoker Award winner, an Andre Norton Nebula Award Finalist, an Ignyte Award winner, and a Mythopoeic Fantasy Award winner for outstanding children’s literature.

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Reviews

[Mya · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was a delightful, short treat about a precocious woman who is cursed and turned into a cat shifter. I was introduced to Ms. Royce's 'Carnival Magic' series with the first book which was centered around the very same world of carnies, magic and shape shifters that this story shares. Leesa, the main character is a spirited woman whose unfortunate transformation into a cat is both fitting and charming as she is rescued by a big, hunky bear shifter named Vol. Leesa as well as the reader are drawn into a world that is revealed to be complex and wondrous, as Ms. Royce infuses the themes of acceptance, love and trust into this tight, short tale. Unpredictable, titillating and magical, I highly look forward to the next installment in the series!

[Dahlia DeWinters · Rating 4 out of 5]

First of all, I love the cover to death. Second, it's about a woman who is turned into a shape-shifting cat. I am so there. I enjoy stories where the heroine is suddenly "cursed" with something and has to find her way either out from under the spell or find a way to deal with it.

It's got a carnival, magic, and above all, a DINER. Being from New Jersey, the land of diners, there's nothing I like better than a story centered around activity at a diner.

Open All Hours is a sexy, well-written story containing a host of characters that will make you smile. (Well, they made me smile at least, but I smile at strange and dark things.)

[Tony · Rating 3 out of 5]

Well written with interesting characters, both the H/H as well as the secondary characters. Leesa gets turned into a cat but that's only the beginning. Meeting Vol is the real catalyst of change.

There's a lot more going on behind the scenes of this novella, something wicked is definitely coming and I'm looking forward to finding out what that something is.