goodreads | Much Ado About Magic - Shanna Swendson (Reply)

Title: Much Ado About Magic (Enchanted Inc. #5)
Author: Shanna Swendson
Genre: Fantasy / Paranormal
Rating: 4/5
# pages: 298
Date read: November, 2015

Katie Chandler is back in New York and at Magic, Spells, and Illusions, Inc. - and just in time. The city's in the grip of a magical crime wave from spells that wizarding whiz Owen Palmer thinks look awfully familiar, and the rogue firm Spellworks is raising its profile in the magical world by selling protective amulets. It's Katie's job as the new director of marketing for MSI to fight this battle of public perception while Owen and the other wizards try to uncover what's really going on.

What Katie doesn't realize is that her idea to stage a showcase for MSI's magical achievements is playing right into a devious plot more than three decades in the making. Now Katie has to do damage control that has nothing to do with marketing. To save the magical world, she'll have to prove who the real enemy is, and doing that will require digging deeper into Owen's mysterious past than he wants anyone to go. If she fails, she not only stands to lose a magical war, but she could also lose the man she loves.

That's more like it :) Next to the first book in the series, I think this is my favourite :) It did bother me slightly that we hadn't really heard of the council before this book (or if we had, I'd forgotten all about it), as it did seem a bit out of the blue the way the men in black (no relation) suddenly showed up.

I loved Katie's character development, and thought she really seemed to come into her own in this book. I wish Owen had believed her earlier, but can understand why he didn't.

The final confrontation seemed a tad rushed, but the ending itself threw me for a loop - I had not seen that coming! Will be very interesting to see what happens next.

Does anybody know if book 7 is meant to be the last one, or if she just hasn't published anything since 2013?