I wouldn’t change a lick of this. I can’t really think of a reason not to give it five stars. I sat down on a Sunday morning and read this straight through, and it was a pleasure and a delight.
I’ve been reading as many fluffy and witchy reads as I can since the beginning of September because I’m just feeling that right now, and publishers have been so obliging. I liked Witch, Please, and loved Payback’s a Witch. And I loved this one, too. Sometimes you just want fluff, and this is perfectly executed fluff. It is also genuinely funny, and the characters have so much chemistry.
The setting and the plot are fun, too. It takes place in a small town in Graves Glen, Georgia that secretly houses a bunch of witches, and the university, in addition to teaching regular undergrads, also has classes for witches to learn how to do magic. Every year around October, which is Founder’s Day for the town, they have a huge fall festival and the tourists come swarming. This year’s festival is interrupted by an unfortunate and accidental curse. Basically nineteen year old witch Vivi got drunk after being heartbroken by her breakup with twenty year old Welsh witch Rhys and did a (hilarious) faux curse on him to make herself feel better. Only now nine years later with Rhys back in town, it appears the curse stuck and is wreaking havoc not just on Rhys but on the whole town. Magic starts going haywire. A cat starts talking English, and a ghost appears in the library. Plastic skulls in the family gift shop begin to multiply and attack. Fun stuff like that.
And of course while they are trying to undo the curse, they also have to deal with their lingering feelings, which have not gone away after nine years.
This isn’t a book that’s going to change your life or make you think profound thoughts, but if you vibrate on its level, you’re just going to have a lot of fun with it.