"creative humorous chick lit fantasy"

Over the fears of her family, Katie Chandler relocates from small-town Texas to Manhattan where she sees first hand the weirdoes walking the streets and riding the subways such as Miss Airy Fairy with wings or the chicken guy. At work her boss Mimi displays the Dr. Jekyll personality, which obviously means she had a wonderful weekend with her wealthy boyfriend. However, Ms. Hyde can show up and often does without warning or reason. She would like to escape the evil Mimi, but needs the money to pay her bills.

By email, Rodney A. Gwaltney, Director of Personal at MSI, offers Katie a job; she deletes the email as spam. That night Katie and her female roommates hit the Village when the dude she noticed on the subway this morning comes over to meet Katie; he says he is Rod Gwaltney. Katie thinks her first stalker offers her a job. When Mimi goes over the top again, Katie accepts Rod's latest employment email not realizing that seeing elves, gnomes, gargoyles and an assortment of unnamed creatures makes her valuable and unique. Of course she never expected Merlin and other magicians interfering with her love life when she accepted the position.

Fans will appreciate this creative humorous chick lit fantasy occurring on the weird streets of Manhattan similar to city scenes in the Men in Black. Katie is fabulous as she assumes everyone can see fairies or an elf, as this is New York City so what else is new. Fans will appreciate this lighthearted romp with, though the time and place differ, readers too old for Bush's personal accounts will think of THE WIZARD IN SPITE OF HIMSELF and those younger the Dresden Files.

Harriet Klausner

Reviewed by Harriet Klausner
Posted May 28, 2005

Look for Once Upon Stilettos -- the sequel to Enchanted, Inc.
May 30, 2006 from Ballantine Books

Summary

ENCHANTED, INC is a magical story featuring Katie Chandler, a 20something, small-town Texas girl, who finds that being average in New York City is anything but. Katie loves the energy of Manhattan, and if she finds some of the people odd, well, that's New York, right? Where else would you see a person on the subway wearing fairy wings?

Katie is still adjusting to life in the big city while working a for a nightmare boss when she gets a fantastic offer to work for a mysterious company, MSI, Inc. Through her new job and the magical folk she meets, Katie comes to find out she isn't quite as average as she thought; and the fairy tale life she has longed for begins to come true in surprising ways.

What Katie doesn't realize is how rare and important being ordinary can be. In fact, it is her ordinary characteristics that make her the perfect secret weapon for MSI, Inc. Now she has magicians and fairies meddling in her attempted romances, a secret life she needs to keep hidden from her non-magical friends, not to mention that dangerous pull she feels for Owen, an attractive but shy wizard who might be the most powerful magic man since Merlin.