e-Audio, 10:14:12
Narrated by: Ava Lucas
Release Date: April 5, 2022
Published by: Recorded Books, Inc.
Read from: April 2-5, 2022
Fix It Witches, #2
Source: Netgalley Audio
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For Readers Interested In: Romance, Paranormal, Witches, Adult, SeriesThe second in an adorable witchy rom-com series by New York Times bestselling author Ann Aguirre, perfect for fans of:
Ride-or-die female friendships
A bisexual heroine who stubbornly refuses to accept help
A hero with an incredibly pesky moral conscience
A mouse named Benson who may or may not have all the answers to life, magic, and love (Spoiler: he does!)
Clementine Waterhouse is a perfectly logical witch. She doesn’t tumble headlong into love. Rather she weighs the pros and cons and decides if a relationship is worth pursuing. At least that’s always been her modus operandi before. Clem prefers being the one in charge, always the first to walk away when the time is right. Attraction has never struck her like lightning.
Until the witch hunter comes to town.
Gavin Rhys hates witches, and he’s dedicated his life to tracking them down, no matter the cost. His family honor is on the line, and he needs to prove he’s nothing like his father, a traitor who let everyone down. But things in St. Claire aren’t what they seem, and Gavin is distracted from the job immediately by a bewitching brunette with a sexy smile and haunting secrets in her eyes.
Can the bossiest witch in town find true love with someone committed to her downfall?
*MY THOUGHTS*
To be honest with you, I don’t even know why I said I would read this one. Maybe because I read the first one and thought it was ok? Whatever the reason was, I came to the same conclusion, this one was just ok too. Now that I know there’s a third one, I’m still on the fence if I want to read that one. A lot of things just didn’t work for me, and I don’t see them changing when that one comes out.
I won’t do a “recap” of this one because it kind of overlaps with the last one and I don’t want to say too much. So I’ll just go right into what I thought about the timelines instead. And in short, the TL,DR is I didn’t like it. It was basically just seeing things happen from Clem’s POV instead of her cousin. But the part I didn’t like about it was she still wrote the scenes into the book. Like in the middle of the book there is the party that also happens at the end of book 1. And for whatever reason, that bothered me to no end lol If I knew I could have just read this one instead and got the ending of Book 1, I would have done that.
Now the other thing that didn’t sit right with me was the fact that this was about a witch and a witch hunter and there was absolutely nothing thrilling about this at all. They weren’t running from him. They weren’t gathering together to do things to him. They weren’t making weird things happen to him. In fact, the only thing that was happening was the spice that happened regularly. Now normally I wouldn’t have a problem with spice, but when it’s supposed to be a book about a witch hunter and a witch, I expected something that would make my heart pound or something that would make me clutch my pearls or something. But this made me clutch them in a different way.
The spice in this was weird in my opinion. Although it wasn’t something I agreed with, I DID think it was spicy. But it was weird because it seemed like she didn’t want to do it? Idk. It felt kinda skeevy to me. I don’t know how to explain it. Like it’s actual on page sex and it’s explicit, but she acted like she was doing it only because her coven was in danger. She said she liked him and their relationship developed over the book, but I started feeling that way from the very beginning and the feeling never went away.
The only thing that saved this for me was Gavin. He was funny and I loved how he was his own person and didn’t let anyone (including his father) tell him what to do. And in the profession he was in, I couldn’t imagine it was an easy decision to come to. But I guess I wanted more from him. But the author made him so freaking soft. As a hunter I thought there would be some umpt to him. I hope that makes sense.
The narrator was ok. It wasn’t a stand out performance or anything. But her accents were ok and were easy to follow. And since it was only one person doing both voices, I thought it was still impressive. Being a woman and doing a male/male passing voice is hard enough, but add on to that an accent, I thought she did ok.
This book wasn’t anything for me to write home about, but it also wasn’t terrible. I will probably read the next one if I can get it on audio. If nothing else but to finish out the series. Not because I’m super interested. But it DOES have a wedding in it, so I am a LITTLE intrigued. But we’ll see.
I give this
