Title:  Healing Karma
Series:  Karma’s Witches #5
Author:  Hope Welsh
Genre:  Halloween Romance, Paranormal Romance
Published:  July 28, 2015
Publisher:
My Rating:  4 spooky stars
Source:  Borrowed, Kindle Unlimited
Cover Description:

Amethyst has been single, content and working as a nurse. All that changes on the night of the eclipse when she comes home only to find a book–a Book of Shadows–and a letter explaining that she’s not only got two sisters that she doesn’t know–but that she’s also a hereditary witch!

Things really start to change once she meets her sisters, Amber and Topaz. Someone is after Karma’s Newest Witches

When she meets the handsome Shawn the last thing she expected was to need him far more for his witch abilities than for his capability as a police officer and the new love of her life.

Sometimes, Love’s just a Witch. But, Healing Karma is also very important!

Read on for my thoughts on Healing Karma.  No true spoilers, promise.

We are coming closer to the reveal of the evil that is after Amber, Amethyst and Topaz.  In this novella we find that Amy and Shawn are aware of someone watching them and an increase in the feeling of danger around them.

Efforts to get the three sisters, new witches into or at least working with the town of Karma’s coven, the one Shawn and his aunt belong to isn’t going very well.  Yes, Amy and Paz did attend one cookout-meeting but again the sense of evil watching cut that visit short.  All three sisters are concerned for the safety of the men in their lives.  To the point of wondering if they should stay away from them, which of course the guys shoot down pretty fast.  Wanting to protect your man is admirable, but these are, excuse the phrase, baby witches not schooled in the craft – they need teaching and help most of all from their guys.  Separating the group of six at this point is not wise.

The evil presence is becoming stronger.  And when a doctor at the ER begins to act aggressively toward Amy, pieces of the puzzle begin to fall into place.

Healing Karma does end on a cliffhanger which will take us into the last novella.  It makes sense for the tension of the situation, but it is the first cliffhanger in this series.  I enjoyed this story and have downloaded the final novella to finish up this series, which I’m looking forward to.

I do have to mention one that that did bother me.  I normally don’t comment on an author’s decision to market their books or the series within the current book.  Yet, when each novella is so short it was disappointing, to me, to find that the actual story stopped at about 52% on my Kindle.  The rest of the pages up to 100% were chapters from the other novellas, giving anyone who picked up this series in the middle a chance to see what they missed.  I get that.  I do.  It was a mental disappointment when I saw the larger number of pages thinking it was going to be a longer more detailed story, only to find basically marketing in the last half of the page count.  This comment has nothing to do with how much I enjoyed the story but on the marketing within that downloaded story.

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