Magical Midlife Madness - K.F. Breene

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Title: Magical Midlife Madness
Author: K.F. Breene
Genre: Paranormal
Rating: 3/5
# pages: 316
Date read: February 2025

A woman starting over. A new house with an unexpected twist. A cape wearing butler acting as the world's worst life coach.

"Happily Ever After" wasn't supposed to come with a do-over option. But when my husband of twenty years packs up and heads for greener pastures and my son leaves for college, that's exactly what my life becomes.

Do-over.

This time, though, I plan to do things differently. Age is just a number, after all, and at forty I'm ready to carve my own path.

Eager for a fresh start, I make a somewhat unorthodox decision and move to a tiny town in the Sierra foothills. I'll be taking care of a centuries old house that called to me when I was a kid. It's just temporary, I tell myself. It'll just be for a while.

That is, until I learn what the house really is, something I never could've imagined.

Thankfully forty isn't too old to start an adventure, because that's exactly what I do. A very dangerous adventure that will change my life forever. I have a chance to start again, and this time, I make the rules.


I quite enjoy the "Magical Midlife" genre, but books like "Midlife Magic" and "Magic Uncorked" do it better. This started out strong, but stagnated. Too much explaining - too little plot. It may be that the author is just setting the scene for future novels, but she lost me in the process.

Also, it's MIDLIFE - not old age! K.F. Breene is really making 40 sound completely over the hill - creaking joints at all. I'm 45 and apparently in MUCH better physical shape than the main character here is!

It's the first book in a series, but despite a fairly open ending, I don't really see myself reading any further.