Susan, You're the Chosen One

Welcome to Midlife Magic, Book 1

By: Lauretta Hignett

Narrated by: Jenn Lee

Starting over isn't easy when your whole world is a pile of rubble and everyone thinks you're insane.

One moment, Susan Moore had a perfect life—a handsome husband, a fabulous career, wonderful friends, and a gorgeous home in Pacific Heights, San Francisco.

The next minute, it was all gone. And Susan found herself in a straitjacket, locked in a padded room.

An optimist at heart, Susan's clawing her way back, rebuilding her life brick by brick—not an easy feat when you're over the hill and it feels like the whole city hates you.

When a group of ridiculously gorgeous models in Fae cosplay barge into her tiny apartment and declare her to be the chosen one, Susan decides to play along. She's off to save the world.

Except they're not in cosplay.

Either Susan has really, truly gone insane this time… or all this magic is real.

Susan, You're the Chosen One is book one in the fun, fast-paced, and thrilling new paranormal women's fiction series Welcome To Midlife Magic, by bestselling urban fantasy author Lauretta Hignett.

Contains some coarse language as well as a diverse cast of unicorns, mermaids, sentient houses, dragons, vampires, fae, etc. This book includes discussion around involuntary infertility, menopause, gender bias in healthcare, and mental health issues.

©2024 Lauretta Hignett (P)2024 Podium Audio

Not frantically exciting

I really liked this book. A cosy, bit funny, with a bit of action. Will look forward to to the next instalment to see how it goes.

5 stars

I was a bit hesitant to read this book because the title seems to weird. But I have to say I was pleasantly surprised by how entertaining this book is. I look forward to the next book.

Outstanding!!!

Oh man, I absolutely loved this book! I love Susan and seeing her grow in realizations about herself, while learning about all things magic. This book provides an interesting take on the magical world and realms, drawing me in!

Narration was excellent! The perfect pace, feeling, and emotion in her voice, as well as great inflection.

I recommend this book to all ages and am now going to get the next in the series, as I can't wait to see what happens next!

My fav. series ever

I LOVE this author’s work.
I have not yet read a more interesting and creative series as this one!

I wish the voice actor showed a little more diversity in character voices.. the male vs. female voices aren’t obvious to me, and I feel Cress has been portrayed completely wrong. She’s a badass warrior, but sounds like another faceless female here.

I’m also bummed that the main character is voiced as if she is in her early 60’s.. It’s fairly troubling to me as Susan *is* a tiny bit “older” (in her mid 40’s)… but this isn’t the 80’s.
40 y.o. no longer appears to be 50 y.o.

But I digress, I first came across this series on kindle unlimited, and it was love after I got through the first few chapters.
I started with the series about the woman and her banana demon, found Susan, then went back and read the entirety of this author’s published works… and I throughly enjoy them all.

Again, I find this author’s stories to be engaging, highly creative, and interesting!!

If the audio version doesn’t do it for you, do yourself a favor and read the books! My inner voice found all of Lauretta’s stories to have a LOT to work with. :)

I would like to see more of Susan in the future, though! And I find the following series to lean quite dark. Still creative, but far more serious.

This is the one!

This had me laughing so hard, but I’m not surprised because all Lauretta books have great humor. Great story line, and I can’t wait to read book 2!

Have a hard time with the main character

I struggled with why I didn't like this book very much, trying to understand what it was about the main character that turned me off so much. Middle aged woman offered a new chance at a fantasy life, great. Not an issue. Main character is privileged/pretentious? Nope. Seems well meaning and competent, which are things I generally appreciate. I finally figured out that the issue is that the main character is a competent middle-manager, which (her statement) involves being good at manipulating people to do what you need them to do. In her mind the difference between a good and a bad manager is whether the people being manipulated are happy or sad after the manipulation. This concept that manipulating people for their own good is laudable just rubs me the wrong way, hard enough that I just don't like the main character.