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REVIEW: The Godmother Sanction by Patricia White

What do you get when you take one determined, if slightly bullheaded, woman, add a sawed-off, super-glued magic wand, a smelly disguise, a poisonous toad, a devilishly handsome border guard, a water sprite, and some very real magic? An unorthodox, and definitely, diverting trip to Faery in the company of Leticia Warton, a Godmother with a difference and a Sanction. And with her keeper, Marcus, who knows far too much about the dead witch and not nearly enough about love and happy-ever-afters. But he is certainly willing to learn. Very, very willing.

Dear Mrs White,

big_white-godmother.jpgMy usual practice is to give books up to a 1/3 of their length before tossing in the towel. It was the bits of humorous prose that kept me going with “The Godmother Sanction.” I’d be about to pull my hair out over the heroine then you’d zap me with something that would make me laugh out loud. Still, for me it took far too long before this book really started “going” anywhere. You loaded me down with “Faery 101,” introduced almost too many people for me to keep track of and described every last …