The Cartwright triplets Harmony, Destiny, and Storm are psychic sirens who use their magic for good and their good looks for seduction. But for Destiny, catching the attention of a paranormal debunker isn't going to be easy.
Annette Blair's romantic comedies owe their beginnings to a root canal and a reluctant trip to Salem Massachusetts. Though she had once proclaimed she'd never write a contemporary, she stumbled into the serendipitous role of Accidental Witch Writer on that trip. Funny how she managed to eat her words even with an aching jaw. Magic or destiny; Annette's Bewitching Romantic Comedies became her first National Bestsellers.
Her August '07 release, SEX AND THE PSYCHIC WITCH, the first in her Triplet Witch Trilogy, hit the #1 bestselling spot for contemporary romance-humorous on Barnes & Noble. It also hit B & N's overall bestseller lists for mass market and fiction mass market and #7 for romance mass market, topping Nielsen BookScan and Borders Bestseller lists as well.
Well, I guess it's time to admit defeat. Annette Blair's new writing style is just too frantic and frenetic for me. "Never Been Witched" continues her 'Witch' series about three triplet witches who find their true loves with the help of ghosts and goddesses.
Destiny is the sister who sees the future via the paintings she creates...but the future is never her own. Now she's in a bit of trouble. She's been lusting after a debunker who doesn't believe in her powers! And even though he's gorgeous, hunky, sexy, and every other delicious adjective she can think of...surely he's not the man for her! So rather than heading to Scotland with her sisters' friends and family, she came to the Paxton Island Lighthouse to do some soul searching and spell casting to help her find her path. It just figures that HE would show up!
Morgan can't quite believe the sight that met his eyes. His favorite, uh...no NO, frustrating witchlet...Destiny. Even though he'd like nothing better than to take her to bed and act out every one of his virginal, but well read, fantasies...she's everything he SHOULDN'T want and doesn't believe in.
The plot is funny, the sex is hot, but for me, the execution is jumpy and spotty. Her plot zooms here, there, and everywhere and I just had a hard time keeping up. Which really bums me since until last year, I really liked her novels.
Anyway, if staccato writing, fast action, witchy spells, and hot sex are your thing, then you'll enjoy her latest.
In this conclusion of Ms. Blair's Triplet Witch trilogy she ended with one of her finest yet. I've been looking forward to reading Destiny and Morgan's story for months now and I wasn't disappointed. From the first page I was hooked and had to read the whole book in one sitting. Full of humor and romance this was one of my most favorite storylines. I can only hope that there is an installment for Reggie in the future and that the triplets will return.
This was another great book, Destiny and Morgan couldn't be more different from each other. In order to avoid the chemistry that sizzles between them each decides to avoid the other by skipping a trip to Scotland and they end up in the same place where it seems their destiny lies. This book is full of disbelief, t-shirts and underware with the best sayings, ghosts, and x rated candy. Destiny eggs Morgan on to come to terms with his past and by doing so he finds a long treasured person he has missed.
I got this at a bargain sale for the cover. I got what I paid for.
Never Been Witched is written like bad fanfiction, severely lacks plot, and really only exists as witch-themed light erotica. Definitely not my cup of tea! But, if you're into that... Actually, no. The poor writing doesn't justify the bad storytelling. If you're into witchy romance, do yourself a favor and find a good writer for your spooky sex stories.
My 'guilty pleasure' has always been western romance. I've always stayed clear of the paranormal novels involving vampires, dragons, etc. But then I picked up Annette Blair's "My Favorite Witch" on a 40% off table out of curiosity...and really liked it. I have since read "The Kitchen Witch", "The Scot...", and the 3 novels in the Triplet Witch series. Annette Blair has made me fan!
Never Been Witched and Gone With The Witch are probablly my two favorites of the series. Not sure if this is because they are actually better written or if it's just because the longer I read this genre, the more I enjoy it.
Looking forward to reading more of Annette Blair's work!
As with the last one in this series I felt like I was missing half the relationship. Perhaps the best part of it because what I read was little more than lust and sex. While it was written that there was emotion there it simply didn't feel like it to me.
While I managed to finish the book over the course o several days, each time I picked it up I felt like I was punishing myself. I didn't enjoy the writing style, the strange no reason for replacing not even swear words. (Damn with slam and so forth.)
Simply put it was not a book that I enjoyed and I rather hate that I had to read it.
Charming. Pun sort of intended. Blair has a really unique voice, smart and funny and entirely different than most romance novelists. I found Morgan & Destiny's story really darling. LOVED the twist on Morgan's prior career, which I won't spoil...but it added an added layer of greatness to the book.
I read this one out of order...Harmony first, then Destiny. Will have to buy Storm's book now!
This book ended the Triplet Witch trilogy in an big wonderful way! It brought tears to my eyes, laughter to my body, and peace to my soul! Completely loved it!
Destiny Cartwright has two weeks without her sisters and their husbands pairing her with the insufferable Morgan. She intends to spend it hiding away in her sister’s lighthouse searching for her psychic mandate while Morgan and everyone else are off in Scotland. When she does a spell to find her purpose she doesn’t expect to have two ghosts and an angel arrive. She also doesn’t expect to run into the close minded debunker she’s trying to avoid in the lighthouse. When she learns that one of the ghosts is Morgan’s dead twin Meggie and it’s up to her to make him remember she knows she can’t walk away as much as she’d like to avoid the sexy insufferable man. With only one bed in the lighthouse there’s no avoiding him either. Can she make him remember what he needs to in order to help his sister without getting hurt in the process? I did enjoy this book, however like the previous book I reviewed in this series I felt the sex scenes weren’t clearly written and I kept getting confused on what was foreplay and what was sex because in some scene it seems like they had sex before starting foreplay and I feel pretty stupid having to say the read like my head was spinning a bit leaving me not really sure what was going on except that the characters were doing something to each other. I don’t have a lot of confusing moments while reading so it’s frustrating to read a book with scenes that I don’t feel are written with clarity. It also includes the characters psychoanalyzing each other with again I think it not only boring but a bit of an insult to readers who should be able to figure things out by the characters thoughts, statements and behaviors rather than the characters being spelled out by the other in conversation. Also while the book is a trilogy it leaves an open ending as to what Destiny’s purpose is and how Morgan is a part of that as well as point to possible changes in Morgan’s mother, or at least an ability to hear the ghost of her own child but never lets us see fully how she reacts to that. I also didn’t like that we never get the wedding scenes in any of these books, not even as an epilogue except where we say portions of Harmony’s at the beginning of Storm’s novel but it wasn’t really the same since there was little focus on the actual bride and groom. Additionally it mentions that Morgan’s psychic but his psychic abilities are shown once in a vision Destiny has of him as a child blaming himself for not sharing and then glossed over in a final scene which includes no description of the vision and not even really a paragraph of attention. Yes after that he starts to see the ghosts that Destiny has been seeing, however Blair made this big build throughout the series about Morgan being a psychic who denies his abilities because of his faith but then offers no real follow through. Additionally, I felt there were age inconsistencies in this novel. King is 37 during his novel Sex and the Psychic Witch during which he said he had met Morgan when they attended high school together but during this novel which occurs months later Morgan turns 31 and I’m wondering what high school has that many grades in it. The fact that the three men basically attended school together gives the impression that they’re all approximately the same age but then Morgan turns out to be considerably younger than King and who knows how old Aiden is. I feel like by the time Blair got half way into this trilogy she wanted to move on from the Salem Witches she introduced us too, but since she committed she rushed through the stories without paying attention to her own details or offering shown characters attributes and clear scenes. I may be wrong about this, but based on how the quality of writing diminishes between The Accidental Witch in the first related Trilogy and Gone with the Witch in the middle of this trilogy which doesn’t get better during the final installment of this trilogy I can’t help but come to that conclusion. The book is a decently written light hearted paranormal romance which includes some humor though not nearly as much as the previous installment in the trilogy. I enjoyed reading the book and I liked that she managed to give equal attention to the paranormal plot as to the romance; however I wouldn’t really call this a stunning conclusion to the series, more like the weakest link in the series of books. The romance was there, but the spark wasn’t as spicy as in the other novels. I did find it intriguing that she introduces a male virgin in this novel, however I will say that based on Morgan’s behaviors in the other novels the idea that he was a virgin came as a complete shock. Before this novel the character acted as experienced with woman as his friends but when this novel open he’s all of a sudden a virgin. Now they did offer a reasonable and believable explanation for this, however his lack of experience I feel should have come through in other novels as well as this one. Another thing in Storm’s novel it read like Morgan was chasing Destiny and she was the one running because he mocked her beliefs but in this book it sounds like Morgan was the one turning Destiny down while she chased him. The spin was interesting but at the same time the story itself seems to contradict previous novels in the series. The book was a fast paced and quick read, with an enjoyable story that I think would have been better as a standalone title rather than connected to the trilogy because of the contradictory elements from previous novels. Most of the characters are away during this novel so the focus is on Destiny and Morgan who are well developed characters though not as gripping as Storm and Aiden of the previous novel. Cameo appearance are made by Storm, Aiden, King, Harmony, Reggie and Jake but for the most part not long enough for them to really have personality as characters. Jake probably had the longest scenes in which his character who is supposed to be like three became entirely unbelievable. I’ll buy that he might be talking better, and since they’re calling him baby Einstein he’s probably reading. But I don’t care how brilliant a three year old is they are not going to be giving historically accurate tours of Salem to their friends from their car seat nor are they going to be really interested in the details of boy girl differences. I could have bought him as an advanced six year old character, but as a three year old give me a freaking break. I know that Blair likes to feature children in her novels, however she’d have done better to skip it on this one rather than to basically put an adult personality in a three year old body. The ghost however I felt were interesting additions as characters and Meggie was probably the most memorable of any character within the book. Overall the book was okay, not great but I did enjoy reading it. I might have had a higher opinion if I hadn’t read Blair’s previous novels but over all I feel pretty let down as a reader when I compare it to those. I would recommend it to reader of contemporary and paranormal romance, but I would say rush out and buy it, more you might like it because Blair is a talented writer.
I really enjoyed this final story in the Triplet Witch Trilogy. I felt like it could have done with one final chapter though. The final chapter of this reflects on each of the couples in both the Triplet Witch Trilogy and the Accidental Witch Trilogy. But it doesn’t really revisit them. It turns out that I was kind of hoping for this… but, still, it was a great ending to a series.
Unlike the first two men in this trilogy, Morgan has a completely surprising set of issues that he has to face. One of which is his past faith in religion – and more specifically Christianity. It’s the first book I’ve really read which talks about this faith and explores the departure from it. I found it completely refreshing and kind of gorgeous. It was completely fun, and a great way to think about a religion that I honestly don’t have a great past with myself. And, although Morgan has some seriously big issues with his faith, it still doesn’t deal with his religious beliefs in a derogatory or rude manner… it’s just a vessel of storytelling and the bringing out of flaws in some people.
I found the fact that there were no past children in this triplets’ love life kind of refreshing. As much as I love the blended families formed in the first two books, it was kind of nice to go with a very different spin on the storyline. Although, it still had that same great sense of sexuality and intensity as the other five Annette Blair books that I’ve read. That pleasantly toe-curling sense that doesn’t quite make you look guiltily over your shoulder, but also makes you want to reach out for your partner and give them a very passionate embrace.
As always with Blair’s writing, I finished this book quickly and happily. It left me with this feeling of hope about the world that we live in and true love and happily ever afters. Her books are the perfect stories for a dark, lonely weekend. For those days which you just don’t quite know what you’re doing with life. They’re a great comfort book. Like thick fluffy socks next to an open fire. Or curling up with a mug of hot chocolate…
snarky, in trying to get away form each other they are thrown together for a few weeks while he fights his past and works toward getting into her pants
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
This is the last book in Annette Blair’s witch trilogies, and though she’s started a couple of new series, I’m sorry to see this one end. These sexy and intelligent witches throughout two trilogies have been an outright blast to read. The humor and banter between all of Ms. Blair’s heroes and heroines is nearly unparalleled, only a few other authors ever come to mind when it comes to those two elements combined with enchanting characters and fun storylines.
Destiny is the third Cartwright triplet to find her hero in the most unlikely of places. Actually, in the most unlikeliest of persons. She met Morgan at the same time her sisters met their now spouses, but she and Morgan did not hit it off right away, though there was plenty of sexual tension between them. Taking some time for herself while her family and the troublesome Morgan are in Scotland, she stays at her brother-in-law’s lighthouse on Paxton Island to find her psychic path, to soothe her soul.
But her sisters are playing matchmaker and secretly give a key to the lighthouse to Morgan too. They stumble over each other the first and so begins the fun for the reader with the wit and sensuality that doesn’t let up one bit until the very end. Destiny is the sister that sees the future in various ways, one of which is painting her visions, which she’s done over the years, and it’s with Morgan that they both begin to experience those visions firsthand.
Destiny can also see and talk to ghosts, which is a good thing since two very vital spirits are currently in residence with her and Morgan during their stay. Through one of those spirits, she begins to learn a little more about Morgan and his reasons for debunking the paranormal. They both learn there’s more to Morgan than meets the eye, and his belief transformations are loads of fun though they once or twice take place during dangerous situations.
The love scenes are extra fun in this book. Why, you ask? Huh-uh. Not going to say. Just know Morgan is having the time of his life when having sex with Destiny. I thoroughly enjoyed these two characters on their journey to finding each other. The rest of the family does make it back near the end of the book, and it’s just that much more fun when they do arrive.
These are such fun books and I’m glad I discovered them and Annette Blair. It’s bittersweet leaving these stories and characters behind, but I know more fantastic reading is ahead with Ms. Blair’s new series.
Talk about a lousy chooser. Not that she wanted to marry the hunky debunker: six feet of baditude in tight, torn jeans, chest-baring unbuttoned shirts, shaggy, burnished bronze hair, wide shoulders and a five o'clock shadow. She wanted Morgan Jarvis, architect for sex, for a while as a boy toy, no commitment - no after burn, no after taste or regrets.
Destiny Cartwright is embarking on a journey of self-discovery at an abandoned lighthouse while running from her attraction to Morgan Jarvis. Surprisingly ex-priest Morgan Jarvis is also at this lighthouse, escaping from naughty thoughts of Destiny Cartwright. Unfortunately Morgan has a boatload of baggage and Destiny just wants to get laid.
For once the guy is the virgin and the woman gets to play teacher. I liked this concept and other than Destiny's language (she won't curse but she has no trouble repeatedly saying pecker and c*ck), I thought the sex scenes were kind of romantic.
The snarky dialogue between them is entertaining but the sex just got out of control. I don't remember the first two books in this series being all sex but this one is more sex than plot. I didn't enjoy this book as much as the others in the series.
I haven't laughed so much in a long time. Witty reparte is abundant in this quirky final novel of the Triplet Witch Trilogy, as is the rampant sexuality of it's naughty girl, Destiny.
Destiny ops to stay home from the family trip to Scotland in order to avoid bad boy debunker, Morgan. Unfortunatly nobody told this to Morgan. Destiny and Morgan end up housed together at the Lighthouse, which happens to only have one bed. As a way to share, they set up the wall of Jericho. Spectaularly, it comes down. But I urge you to read it to find out more. Ghosts, cats, dogs, unwanted family and a treasured nephew all have a hand in the romance between Destiny and Morgan. It's charming and sweet with the perfect ever after ending.
I think I am just too cynical for these kinds of stories. The predictable, everything works out, all odds overcome happy endings had me rolling my eyes for all three books. However they all had some really funny moments that had me laughing out loud and texting my friends (tattooed "man brains").
I still think book two was my favorite. I liked the mc's rebellious attitude and constant snarky comments. The mcs in this book became more likable for me as the story progressed. Certain things (as ranted about in my earlier updates) are still beyond absurd. And again, I still don't know the story behind the Dracula person at the yard sale in the first chapter of book one. That one will haunt me to my deathbed.
Destiny is the last born of triplets and is also a witch. She has one problem, Morgan Jarvis as he doesn't believe in the paranormal. Matter of fact he is a paranormal debunker. She decides to stay at her sister's lighthouse so she won't be in his company for a week. Destiny doesn't know that her sister leaves keys with Morgan also. The fun begins when they stumble over each other late one night, and the ghostly inhabitants of the lighthouse. What happens when you throw a witch with psychic gifts, a couple of ghost and a man who doesn't believe in either of those things with some secrets of his own. A enjoyable read.
I love Annette Blair. I have read all of the witch series books (I believe there are 6 of them). They are "contemporary romance" and they have some good steamy scenes in them. But I like her style of writing because I feel like I am there in the story and know the characters personally.
I was exited to learn that she will be releasing more books in 2009 and starting 2 new series. I will have to check them out, as well as some of her other series.
Really liked this light-hearted romance series. I am not a romance reader usually but do enjoy a bit of paranormal fun romance and Annette Blair usually does a nice job. This is not a main meal but a tasty snack. This is the 3rd triple to finally catch her man. There are some sexy scenes and ghosts, witches and assorted odd characters. It really is better to have read the other ones in the series before getting to this one.
I was fully prepared not to like this book...likely not to even finish it. So much for judging a book by it's cover. This was a fun, sassy (as well as a little corny) read and I enjoyed it. I'll be looking for the first two of the series to read now as well as other books by this author. The cover really is atrocious though
I think this was the best book in the Triplet Witches Trilogy. I think that the plot was the best of all three books, and I liked the characters the best too. Once again, I don't have too much to say about this book. There were still some elements thrown in that I thought could have had more thought put into, but overall, I enjoyed this one.
Annete Blaire as a flare for crazy sensual humorous tales. Her characters are witty and soulful that I even get teary eyed alittle bit. I really enjoyed Never Been Witched its was way more of an emotion journey than it predecessors. Blairs style has really changed in each book. Ultimately making this ones style much more mature and better.
Had to read the last book in the series. It was ok and I don't regret reading it - but I don't think I would recommend it to anyone either. Cute - but lacking in depth and a little bit in plot as well.
Third book in the triplet witch trilogy. After reading them all, I have to say that they were good, but the second book was my favorite of the three. A bit corny at times, they did have some entertaining one liners that had me laughing out loud.
Okay, but gets a little ridiculous by the 3rd book. The psychic witches part is often the most believable part of the story. The busty blonde barbie triplets find themselves in very contrived scenarios, and all the main characters seem to have very, very poor parents.
The last of the set, I enjoyed the series immensely and was sad to see them go. Which is a sure sign for me that I will revisit these girls. I actually went out and got the previous set because I enjoyed these so much. I would recommend these to anyone looking for fun, charm, passion and magic.
IN the end....surprizes always seem to pop up now and then don't they. In this novel they do as much as the other two novels in this series of triplet witches.