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The Trouble with Witches (Ophelia & Abby, Book 3) by Shirley Damsgaard
Book Summary InformationAuthor: Shirley Damsgaard Edition: Mass Market Paperback Published: 2006-09-01 ISBN: 0060793589 Number of pages: 304 Publisher: Avon
Book Reviews of The Trouble with Witches (Ophelia & Abby, Book 3)Book Review: Entertaining Summary: 4 StarsThis is actually the third book in the series. I haven't read the previous two. It was never explained why Ophelia referred to her grandmother as Abby rather than gradma or something like that. That bothered me a bit. In this tale a journalist friend of Ophelia's asks her and her grandmother, Abby to help him find a missing girl. The last known location of the girl was with a cult. Ophelia and Abby are not only psychic, but they are witches as well. Taking a vacation they head to the lake to check out the cult and try and get some idea where the missing girl, Brandi, might be.
Although there were several references to things that had gone on in earlier books, I didn't feel I was missing out with starting at the third one. Told from Ophelia's point of view, I didn't get a good feeling for the depth of Abby. Abby seemed to be the all-knowing wise woman, and I would like to have known more of what was going on in her head. The perky, cheerleader type, best-friend, Darci was a little over the top. Perhaps if I'd read the other books, I might have made more of a connection with the character. Although, lacking that, she seemed superfluous to the plot. The plotting and pacing were good. I didn't feel the story really bogging down at any point. Overall, I liked it.
Summary of The Trouble with Witches (Ophelia & Abby, Book 3) Ophelia has always considered her psychic abilities an imposition, except for those times she's been able to put her paranormal talents to good use—like when a friend asks her to help find a missing teenager. Unfortunately it means she and Abby, her kindly, canny sorceress granny, will be taking to the road to pursue the vanished girl in the wilds of Minnesota. The signs are pointing toward the secluded new age research facility of Jason and Juliet Finch, who live with their troubled—and possibly matricidal—thirteen-year-old niece. And a bizarre local murder that follows their arrival—plus the appearance of a mysterious Native American shaman—only emphasize the urgency of Ophelia and Abby's hunt, drawing them into a web of dark secrets and to the last place they'd ever wish to be: a cottage in the woods where true evil quite possibly resides.
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