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"Idris leaned back in his chair and attempted to cross his legs, but was hampered by the chains on his ankles. He bent over to investigate and fell out of his chair. The chains on his wrists that were bolted to the table kept him suspended, hanging at an odd angle. He twisted to try to pull himself back into his chair and somehow got the chains tangled up. I wasn't sure how he managed to get into that pretzel-like position. 

It took real talent to be that inept."

-Shanna Swendson Enchanted. Inc #5-Much To Do About Magic

*snort* Oh, Idris. You art a wonderful villain. 

Shanna Swendon's Enchanted.Inc is one of my favorite series: it's light at most times and fun, funny and exciting. 

It tells a story of Katie Chandler, an ordinary woman who found herself not so ordinary at all. She is, in fact, an immune, a person who has an, what else, immunity to magic, who can see through veils so she was recruited by MSI: Magic, Spells and Illusions. A company who is often referred to as the 'microsoft of magic'. You see, when you can do magic it also means that magic can also be done to you so having an immune on the payroll has its advantages: they can check contracts just in case there were some fancy veiling on some points, they can detect any magic or curses or see through illusions in meetings or on a product. Mostly, what they do is verify. 

What I like about Kate is that even though her immunity give her a leg up, so to speak, but most of the time, she deals with problems with common sense and strength of will, cunning and simply by being smart. You'd be surprise how far those personality traits brought her to the attention of the boss; Merlin.

Yep, Merlin, the one and only. 

Then there is Owen Palmer. Owen is a powerful wizard, kind of like a grown up Harry Potter. He has movie star looks, book smarts, street smarts, and magical power to go on for days. He has his layers, from the shy and unassuming man to the intense and powerful wizard. He's the head of the Research & Development department, yeah, he's basically a nerd, the magical equivalent of a tech nerd. His job is to take old spells and adapt them to modern times. He's an orphan (I KNOW) and there's been some foreshadowing about his mysterious pass, some dark secret about his parents ( I'm thinking there's a Darth Vader type in here somewhere). Since he is so powerful, he was brought up under the hands of his foster parents who is firm and strict with him. I'm guessing ethics and morals and rule are hammered into his head as soon as he can understand words. Because of his upbringing, he doesn't really get that he's hot, and he's really shy. He blushes every time a woman speaks to him ( adorable) and he usually likes to stay in the background. But when he's focused on something, he tends to be scarily obsessive about it. 

Then there is Phaelan Idris. He starts as being the villain although further down the road we know there is someone else pulling his strings but I find him to be so deliciously funny. Idris has no morals and also no ethics whatsoever. The term villain doesn't really suit him because he usually doesn't mean to be bad, he just ends up that way because, well, he doesn't really think that what he's doing will hurt anybody. And to be fair, he usually uses his spells such as influence spell for the silliest things. Once he used it to influence people to dance ala cabaret at the streets just to greet Kate. He also has the focus and concentration of a squirrel, he gets distracted by everything. He's silly, and often times annoying rather than evil. Not to say that his spells doesn't create trouble for Owen and Kate, it does, it's just that...well, if you read the books, you'll understand what I mean. 

I'm reading the 5th book now and having fun.

I took a long nap today and this is the first time I opened my laptop for the day because my eyes were so tired.