Book Review: Stripped by Julie Elizabeth Leto (Harlequin M&B's The Bad Girls Club)

hehe... I've not been reading Mills & Boon since my highschool days. I've moved on since then... but I was caught without a book on my train ride home from KL to Seremban one day, so I grabbed this book as a light read for the 1+hr train ride home. Only found time to write a review on it today.

Well, "Stripped" in this story, does not mean stripping down to their Birthday suits. It's actually refering to stripping of "powers". Hmmm.... intrigued? Well the story is abt a modern day witch (Lilith St. Lyon - why witches / vampires tend to have french sounding names?) who did not follow the rules of the witch community, so the "council" decided to strip her of her "powers". Unfortunately, her elder sister is the head of the council so it created quite a rift between them.

What is her powers exactly? & what has she done wrong to deserve such punishment? She can mind read / has psychic powers. 1 of the golden rule of the witching world is not to use it for personal gains. However she's used it to figure out the likes & dislikes & sexual fantasies of a detective (Mac Mancusi) she has been working with in solving crime using her psychic powers. He freaked out & felt cheated (cos' he thought tht the fact tht they have so much in-common boils down to Chemistry) when he found out tht her psychic power was real (he'd always thought tht it was all a hoax / some other scientifically explainable methods).

So she was left "man"-less & powerless all at the same time. Then a series of crime occured, forcing Mac to contact Lilith. Despite her lack of powers now, Lilith is determined to prove to the council tht she's worthy of her powers & hopefully it'll be returned to her someday. To cut a long story short, there's some twist & turns with battles & new "beings" like Warlords etc thrown in for good measure.

Not a bad read, considering the author is able to compress so many actions in such a short novel & yet managed to develop the flesh & bones of the main character - making it come to life.