Perfectly Charmed Pixie: Parsnip's Story

Perfect Pixie Series, Book 3

De: MJ May

Narrado por: Tor Thom, Cooper North

Youthful arrogance and misplaced trust left Parsnip's once beautiful aqua colors little more than shades of muted gray.

As a social pixie and host of a popular TV show, Parsnip desperately needs to fool everyone into believing he's that same, stunningly colorful creature. Warlock-made charms are all Parsnip needs to keep up the rouse. But the financial cost is high, and each activated charm steals more of his life force. Despite this, Parsnip is willing to pay any price. After all, who would want a faded pixie?

Everyone knows warlocks have no moral compass. But if that's true, why does Vander Kines turn down more commissions than he accepts? Barely able to keep a roof over his head, his shop open, his brownie ward fed, and beer in the fridge, Vander should jump at the large sums of money clients are willing to throw in his direction. But no amount of cash is worth the cost of his soul, and his only true concern is keeping the young brownie safe.

When a magical mishap with Parsnip's warlock sends the pixie through Vander's door, Vander refuses his request until he discovers Parsnip is his one and only. Now, he will go to any lengths to make Parsnip happy—even trading his own life force in place of Parsnip's.

Unfortunately, Parsnip isn't fooling everyone, and a witch with a vendetta is determined to expose his secret. She's willing to kill Vander and hand Parsnip over to his worst ogre nightmare to get what she wants.

True, unvarnished love is hard to find and sometimes even harder to accept. Having found it, Parsnip's willing to do anything to keep it safe… even if that means giving up his charmed life.

Perfectly Charmed Pixie contains beautiful pixies—no matter what their colors, an ornery yet clever brownie, a morally sound warlock, pixie dust-addicted ogres, good and bad witches, a questionably reformed siren, more honeysuckle mead, magic, and finding your perfect other half. It's the third book in the Perfect Pixie series but may be enjoyed as a standalone.

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Sweet and “Charming” Story

This was a sweet story of fated mates and magic. Parsnip and Vander are another set of mismatched mates who find their way to be together.

Overcoming the Odds

I truly thought this was going to be more drama laden with issues between the couple. I am happy to report this was couple against the world woth mild drama instead. I love theall the dichotomy in the issues of the paranormal. and humans.

The whole series "danced with unshed tears."

I listened to all 5 books of the Pixie series by MJ May on Audible. I like the world building, the fantasy world set in modern day, VA, USA, with cell phones, TV, court, and fairy lawyers. They add to the cast of characters with each new book, and you get a continuation of the characters story after the "happily ever after" of the book they were main characters of. There are a little bit of spicy scenes, but not that much compared to other Romantacy I have listened to.

I like the duel narrators style and I enjoyed listening to both voice actors. Their voices for each character don't perfectly line up with the other actor's version, but I like it because it's like that character is telling the story from their POV anyway. It just feels like this is how the character would tell you that person's voice. I have a friend IRL that tells stories about people and "does the voices" this reminds me of that.

There are maybe a few things in the characters, story, or writing style that are a bit cliché or stereotypes, but I still really enjoyed the series anyway. It's fun, it doesn't have to be that serious. It's "Perfectly Imperfect" ;)

Good story. Good narration.

Parsnip has an interesting problem that made for equally interesting social commentary. I liked the core plots of this story more than the previous volumes of this series. However, I was more interested in the plot than the romance or steamy bits.

The narration was performed fairly well. The voices of some of the side characters felt a bit off, but this book seemed to have more than the first two, so it might have been a bit more challenging to develop distinctly different tones.

Overall, I enjoyed the book, and I have already started the next one.

Parsnip's Story

I will admit to not liking either of the main characters at the start of the book, but they really grew on me. It was good to see Phil and Peaches again as well as the usual cast of characters. I would say this book was just as good as Perfectly Imperfect Pixie. I'm was hoping to see the end of Arie in this book, but no such luck. This HEA ending book was well paced and well written, it also includes some small setup at the end from the next book with Hellfire Rayburn as the main.