Wednesday, April 13, 2011

666 Park Avenue by Gabriella Pierce

It seems like magic when Jane Boyle finds herself falling in love with fabulously wealthy American Malcolm Doran.  After just a month he proposes and she accepts and decides to move to New York to be with him and his family.  But before she can leave she takes him to meet her superstitious, overprotective grandmother.  Jane is an orphan raised in the rural Alsace region of France by her grandmother and she moved to Paris to study architecture. When they find her grandmother deceased Jane isn't really upset as she was not close to her grandmother but upon getting ready for the funneral finds an envelope with her name on it that contain a mysterious letter from her grandmother and a silver ring that changes everything.

Jane discovers that she has magical powers and that she's a witch from a long line of witches!  She decides to continue her plan of going to New York and marring Malcolm.  But when she meets Malcolm's family, one of the oldest and most powerful in New York, she discovers that nothing is as it seems and starts to question if her love of Malcolm is even real.  She quickly discovers that her magic will be useless against them, especially Malcolm's very intimidating mother, Lynne. But as her wedding day gets closer, Jane discovers that there's more to the Dorans than she thought, and her magic might be the only thing that will save her.

Fun, light read that gave another element to a supernatural romance.  I did like how the ending was left open and felt much more real than I expected as Jane has to decide to either go on her own or run away with Malcolm.