Synopsis:
So here’s the deal—I’m a magical disaster. A witch from a family of witches, and the only one whose magic blows up in her face. Which is why I came up with my rules…
1. Never get involved with magic
2. If you must get involved, do not enter a competition to win the biggest magical fortune in England
3. And definitely don’t fall for Callan Hawthorne, the sexy billionaire mage who you’ve hated for years
So how the heck do I end up in a situation that promises to break all those rules? It’s the only way to save Seaside Spells, my family’s magical potion shop.
But it’s cool. When I go back home to Charming Cove—a village of ancient pubs and foul-mouthed familiars—I will totally ignore Witch Weekly’s Sexiest Man of the Year. I’ll win the competition, and if I’m lucky, I won’t turn myself into a toad in the process.
This’ll be fine. It’ll all be fine.
Riiiight.
Review:
After enjoying the second book in this series of standalones, I was fairly excited to check out The Modern Girl’s Guide to Magic. Unfortunately, it took me almost two weeks to finish so my attitude towards the book was pretty crappy near the end. It also didn’t feel like it was in the same world as the second book. It was all about witches but there wasn’t anything magical about it.
It honestly felt like the book was getting longer with every chapter I got through. It just kept going and going but there wasn’t really anything going on.
There were some good parts of The Modern Girl’s Guide to Magic. These mostly being the side characters. I loved Catrina, Tabitha, Aria’s gran and Boris (Aria’s badger familiar) the most. They were easily the funniest characters and I wish they were included more.
Don’t get me wrong, the romance elements were nice, but Callan and Aria were a little boring. The whole ‘I hate him, he’s my worst enemy’ bit wasn’t as hard hitting or lasted as long as it should have. I think if they were a little harsher to each other I would have rooted for them more. Which sounds a little problematic but I like passion. As long as no one is getting hurt, it’s fine. Also, Callan’s comments about thinking about 17 year old Aria ‘when he’s alone’ were creepy and instantly put me off him.
I would probably be giving this book a much better and longer review if I didn’t have such a hard time getting through it, but that’s a valid reason to give a low rating, right?
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