MIDNIGHT MAGIC
Author: Rebecca York, Susan Kearney & Jeanie London ISBN: 0765354853 5/2006 PARANORMAL Publisher: TOR
Time Period: Present, Past & Future
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Legend has it that a heartbroken artist used magical paint to create the beautiful “Midnight Magic”--and then stepped into the painting and was never seen again. Or so Sara Drimmon is told when she visits the Second Chance Gallery in Rebecca York's "Second Chance." Sara experiences the magic for herself when the painting sends her into her own past and gives her a second chance with her first love.
Then it's Sara's turn to introduce someone to the painting--and she chooses Merline, a beautiful singer who's lost her voice. In Susan Kearney's "Ulterior Motives," the painting sends Merline thousands of years into the future, where she is no longer a superstar. Is Merline ready to trade stardom for love?
In Jeanie London's "Temptation," an artist urges Nina de Lacy to look deeply into the painting. But Nina has her own magical way of seeing into the souls of men--and now she must choose between the destiny “Midnight Magic” offers her and the two men who wait for her to tell them their future… |
 RRAH's THOUGHTS AND PONDERINGS:
Three authors combining their romantic storytelling abilities to create three different tales all involving a mystical painting, sounds pretty intriguing. Too bad it's not. The first story is touching, the second story is the best as far as writing and imagination are concerned, and the last one, well, I still don't know what that one is all about. I interpret it to be a strange love triangle that just creeps me out. Different strokes for different folks, I guess.
MIDNIGHT MAGIC has some okay moments, but mostly it's underdeveloped, rushed yet slow. I have that same complaint about many anthologies because the authors just don't have the work space to give the complete picture I need to make a book work for me. This one is no different.
Shannon Johnson |
