Lightning in Her Hands Review

By Raquel Vasquez Gilliland

Wild Magic Book 2

Star rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐✨

Spice rating: 🌶️🌶️🌶️

Audio rating: 🎧🎧🎧🎧

Pub date: 10/15/2024

Blurb

 Gifted—or cursed—with the power to influence the weather, one woman must embrace her wild heart in the next electric romance from the author of Witch of Wild Things.

Teal Flores is desperate for two things—control over her gift of weather, and a date to her ex’s wedding. The first isn’t possible until she finds her long-lost mother, but the second has a very handsome last-ditch solution: Carter Velasquez.

Carter needs Teal too. His chance at receiving an inheritance is dependent on him being married by age thirty (blame his traditional Cuban grandmother), so who better to pose as his wife than Teal? But fake marriage and cohabitation prove tricky when mutual attraction charges the atmosphere—quite literally for Teal, whose volatile emotions cause lightning strikes.

Together, Teal and Carter embark on a quest to find her mother and the answers she’s searching for. But along the way, they’ll discover something even better: a love that can weather any storm.

Category: Paranormal Romance

 

Read if you Like:

⚡Weather magic

⚡Friends to lovers

⚡Family dynamics

⚡Marriage of convenience

My Thoughts:

Teal was a beautifully flawed character and I loved watching her grow. Having been in an abusive relationship in the past really affected the way she saw herself and being near Carter who has known and liked her since they were children was a great way for her to start reshaping her thinking. Carter is a wonderful hero and I really liked the chemistry he and Teal shared. Their connection is so long standing and deep and seeing it become more than friends is so fun!

I also loved learning more about Teal's power. I loved that her inability to experience her feelings became part of her magic. Raquel Vasquez Gilliland does a wonderful job writing magic that extenuates who a character is and I really enjoy reading it!

I'm super excited to read the final book in this trilogy. I am already obsessed with Sky and her tendency to read romance books and talk about them at inappropriate times. So far each sister has had a very different perspective and I can't wait to see hers!

Marcella Black did the audiobook narration and I really enjoyed it! She is a new to me audiobook narrator. I do tend to prefer when the audiobook narrator is the same throughout a series but I know that's not always possible.

Thanks to PRH audio for providing me with an ALC. All opinions are my own.