Maggie and Arthur's Magic Moment
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Publisher Description
FALL UNDER THE SPELL OF THIS COZY AND HILARIOUS LIGHT ACADEMIA ROMANTASY!
'Delightfully magical and wonderfully romantic' - SARAH BETH DURST
'Cleverly constructed magic, contemporary-yet-fantastical academia, and swoony slow-burn romance' - EMILY KREMPHOLTZ
'Impeccable grumpy x grumpy romantic vibes' - INDIA HOLTON
Incantations professor Maggie Linden is facing a spring term of struggles at the magical Hawthorn College - from budget cuts slashing her spellcasting syllabus, to finding the mysterious stranger she kissed at the Beltane masquerade ball.
Now, worst of all, she’s being forced to share her office with famous (and famously broody) alchemist Arthur Taliesin.
An accident in Taliesen’s lab has set loose a dangerous, haunting magic, rendering parts of the college uninhabitable. With his insufferable attitude and unfortunate good looks, a distraction like Arthur is the last thing Maggie needs.
She’ll do anything to get Arthur out of her office.
Including offering to help him reverse the magic that threatens the college.
But as they work together to save Hawthorn, Maggie slowly discovers that Arthur is more than the conceited grump he pretends to be . . .
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Rene paints by numbers in her lackluster debut, a magical school romantasy pairing a grumpy and arrogant hero with an underdog heroine. After Dr. Maggie Linden's ex ends both their relationship and her career, she takes a job in the Linguistics and Incantation Translation Department at Hawthorn College, where she desperately fights for her piece of the departmental budget. Her enemy in this is Arthur Taliesin, director of the alchemy labs, who slashed funding to her program. Maggie tries to distract herself from these woes by kissing an intriguing stranger at a masked ball. Unfortunately, she can't find her mystery man again after that night. Worse, Taliesin's class accidentally creates a pall, or a fissure between this world and the next, in their building, leading Taliesin to move into her office. Maggie offers to help close the pall in exchange for getting her office back and her funding restored. Working together predictably proves that Taliesin's prickly reputation is greatly exaggerated, and that the masked stranger may be closer than Maggie thinks. Mixing and matching all the most shop-worn clichés of the genre, there's little to either the magic or the Hating Game–esque plot that feels original. In a crowded field, this fails to stand out.
