Witches Incorporated - by K.E. Mills

 Now...again I apologize for not updating anything up here. It has been relatively hectic, people in the hospital...plumbing that decided to regurgitate itself out of the toilet. That sort of thing. But... I am BACK. I have a few new books that I am super excited to dive into, some nice oldies to revisit. And to make it up to all of you (however few regular readers I have) I actually finished the series that I started and am going to rapidly post the reviews. So there :) Without further ado!

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Now, as we all know, at the end of The Accidental Sorcerer, Gerald got an immense amount of power he didn't know what to do with, he got tortured, he kicked butt, and most importantly he got yet again a new job. Witches Incorporated is mainly centered around Bibbie, Mel and Reg with slightly less (but not much less focus) on Gerald. And yet again, Reg shines through as being a very amazing character. This book starts off with the slightly light hearted feel that the previous one did, with Witches Inc.'s first job being to thwart a scoundrel in the Pastry Guild. Which they did magnificently, with the help of a sprite from another dimension courtesy of Monk's shenanigans.

What is extremely interesting about the second book in this series is that it really explores what the social period is like, one in which women are for the most part still seen as not being as capable as men and more fragile. But you can also tell that there is some progress being made, however not much. And it really makes you realize how rare Bibbie, Mel and Reg are in the grand scheme of things, which is definitely through the virtue of their upbringing (or in Reg's case, just pure unadulterated awesomeness).

The book takes a definitely more grim turn when we find out that Gerald this whole time has been working  on a case of portal tampering, trying to find out who is behind it all before they cause mass amounts of injuries and death. And lo and behold, our favorite bugger from the first book makes a reappearance *cough* Errol *cough*. He is a really...really mean person. And a potential suspect. However, no getting ahead of ourselves. What I thought was very interesting is how the case of the crumpet thief, which is the second case Witches Inc. has started to work on managed to tie into Gerald's portal destroyer.

I thought it was quite refreshing some of the twists and turns the plot took, the first time through I was able to catch some of the hints and guess what was possibly going on. And there were a couple that surprised me, but did make sense once all was revealed. And it was pure enjoyment reading through this again and being able to see all of the hints, to what the eventual outcome was. The second book in the Rogue Agent series was definitely a good one, and is definitely not one that would be lumped in the "filler book" category that some series have a habit of doing. And it is very interesting, in the grand scheme of things how the bigger picture in this book does continue through the next two and will definitely (hopefully)  lead to a very climatic 5th book.

Have you read this book? Did you enjoy it? Have any book recommendations that are similar to this series? I would love to read about them.

Have a nice weekend all of you!