The beginning of a kick-back-and-relax series, whose characters grow on you as the novels progress. I'm a sucker for most of these Women Who Kick Butt books, but tend to be bored by many of them out there with their same old stories of young women with immense power who are perfect in every way.

Our heroine, Rachel, struggles to hold down a job and is kept in check by her code of white witch ethics that says you must not hurt people. So no death toll here, which is refreshing.