Lawson’s review of Sex and the Psychic Witch (Triplet Witch Trilogy, Book 1) by Annette Blair
Contemporary paranormal romance released by Berkley Sensation 7 Aug 07
Though this is a new series by Blair, it ties in with her last book The Scot, the Witch and the Wardrobe. This first book is about Harmony Cartwright, one of the Cartwright triplets. They’re also witches and they own a vintage clothing and antique store in Salem, Mass.
Harmony and her sisters Destiny and Storm are going through a garage sale, looking for things for their store when Harmony finds a gold dress and knows she has to have it. Upon further inspection she finds a ring sewn into the dress and gets a vision about Paxton Castle and knows she’s got to go there for some reason.
Harmony convinces her sisters this is what she must do, it’s a psychic mission, and toddles off to Paxton Castle. In high heels and hot pants with a suitcase full of message tees such as “Orgasm Donor”. No joke. There she intrudes into the life of the current Paxton Castle owner, King Paxton.
King doesn’t like having his life interrupted, but Harmony’s arrival quiets the ghost that haunts the castle, so he puts up with her, though he suspects there’s more to her reason for showing up on his doorstep than her claim to be searching for vintage clothing. King believes Harmony after a couple of mishaps that there’s a ghost haunting the castle, and spends most of the time thinking about how to get into her pants. Not that Harmony isn’t thinking the same things as well.
Eventually an intervention is needed on both sides, magical and male. Harmony’s sisters arrive to help with the magic and King’s best friends, Aiden and Morgan, help King realize that he’s got a giant stick up his ass and he needs to change his ways and accept Harmony in his life.
There’s a lot of cute things in this book, and it knows it. Makes me think of reviews of “Six Feet Under” I read a time or two. It’s precocious, witty, and perhaps strives to hard to achieve that which is called good because it’s rather self satisfied and wants too much to bask in its own brilliance. Or something like that.
Harmony is alright, King is kind of a mess, and the other two triplets and the two friends are going to get their tales told in the next two books in the series. Is there good chemistry? Yes, though it seems that all these people think about is sex. Especially when the triplets are all apparently stacked and wear tight little tee shirts, hot pants and stilettos. Or maybe just Harmony does, it was a little hard to tell.
Self-satisfied cleverness aside, it was a funny story, had some interesting things to say about relationships, letting go and embracing the future. There is a time line thing that bothered me, but I read the ARC, so I hope it was caught in the final (having to do with King doing something 17 years ago when he was 17 but now he’s 37. . .) and that something came out of nowhere and didn’t really seem necessary to the story.
King’s friends did seem to have more potential to make decent alpha males and hopefully those stories won’t want to bask in their own cleverness as much as this one did.
Grade: C-
Summary:
Introducing the Cartwright sisters-Harmony, Destiny and Storm-triplets and unstoppable seductresses.
Harmony, the buyer for her sisters’ vintage curio shop, can read objects and learn of their former owners. Now, a Celtic ring leads her to a castle on the coast of Massachusetts. King Paxton’s money-pit is cursed, and he hopes that this leggy blonde can help him find peace with an angry ghost, a disgruntled renovation crew-and his own heart.
Read an excerpt.
