A Witch in Wolf Wood: The Complete Series Books 1-5 by Lindsay BurokerMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
A middle-aged woman, divorced and laid off from her job, moves to a small town where she's inherited property from a recently-deceased relative, and discovers that that magic is real and she has also inherited supernatural powers. There's a hot guy and some crimes, and she starts a small business and has to clean up an unpromising location for it.
There are (it sometimes feels like) hundreds of books with some minor variation on this exact premise, and the number much more than doubles if you substitute "young woman with no ties and limited job prospects" for "middle-aged woman, divorced and laid off". I usually avoid them, because of the sameness, and because they're rarely well executed. But this one is by Lindsay Buroker, who I know to be reliably entertaining and to have a much higher than average commitment to quality, so I picked it up when Amazon recommended it to me.
She's known for slow-burn romance, but in this case the burn is a little faster than some of her previous books, though the laconic, violent but somehow still appealing love interest is much the same. Also similar is the banter (it's good banter, though).
I spotted five vocabulary glitches and five punctuation glitches, an average of one of each per book in the box set, which lands this on my Well-Edited shelf; I often see dozens of both in just a single book. The author can also use the past tense without error, an increasingly rare skill these days.
It's solid entertainment, light and enjoyable, and I recommend it for anyone who likes urban fantasy/paranormal romance but is tired of the low-quality cookie-cutter stuff. In good hands, even a well-worn premise can feel fresh, and this does, though it's not setting out to break any remarkable new ground.
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