By Carly Bloom
Star rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Spice rating: 🌶️🌶️
Audio rating: 🎧🎧🎧🎧🎧
Pub date: 8/3/2024
Blurb
Delia Merriweather does not believe in magic. But she does believe in family, and her family happens to identify as witches. Their lack of magic doesn’t dampen this heartfelt belief, because according to lore and legend, they’re hexed. Convenient? Yes. True? Probably not.
Thanks to a weird birthmark, the eccentric circle of Merriweather women believe that Delia is their blue witch. In other words, she’s supposedly the person capable of restoring magic to the Coven Merriweather. However, A) magic isn’t real and B) the spell is truly horrific and illegal in all fifty states. Who’s going to boil a baby, for crying out loud? So, they’re all completely blown away when Delia accidentally breaks the hex (sans baby-boiling obviously). Chaos and mayhem ensue, drawing the attention of the invisible witching world. And that includes the sexy, brooding, and excessively irritable Max Halifax who has recently moved in next door to settle his uncle’s estate.
Just when Max thinks he’s done with his endless tour of duty—keeping an eye on the bumbling Merriweather women—he discovers Delia Merriweather has somehow broken the hex placed by his great-great grandfather. He worries that beneath the Merriweathers’ seemingly harmless antics, lies the very real possibility that this gaggle of clueless witches will somehow stumble into their power and, like their ancestors, threaten to rule the witching world by controlling the hearts of men. Maybe it’s even starting already. Because Max’s heart beats erratically whenever Delia Merriweather is around.
Category: Paranormal romance
Read if you Like:
🪄 Witches
🪄 Family drama
🪄 Curses
🪄 Paranormal politics
🪄 Romcom
My Thoughts:
If you are looking for a witchy romcom to read this fall Hot Hex Boyfriend is a great choice! There are so many books where the heroine discovers she has powers but accidently uncursing her family is a new one for me! I loved how her grandmother and aunts fully believed they were witches even before the curse was broken and were the town eccentrics.
I also found the different witch powers really interesting and liked the different types of witches. The world building here was well done and I'm excited to learn more about the witchy society and see how it changes as a result of the developments in this book.
If you want a witchy romcom that will make you laugh while also having interesting magic and a bit of magical danger this is for you!
I listened to the audio version of this story Zion Jang and Laura Knight Keating did a great job with the narration. They were both new to me narrators who hadn't done a ton of romance before so I was glad to enjoy the narration.
Thanks to Forever for providing me with an ARC. All opinions are my own.
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