Oz id annoying, easily offended, protective, and struggling to overcome the issue with a past bargain. Also, the writing felt juvenile sometimes because the author was trying so hard to incorporate pop culture/dad jokes. There were many times when I was listening to this book that I verbally said out loud "wow this is bad" or made ick faces at some of the dialogue and sex scenes. While Mariel Spark was prophesied to be the most powerful witch in centuries, she hasn’t lived up to that potential. Mariel was such a dorky and goofy type of character, we meet her and she has such a refreshing energy.

You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. It looks as if the author didn't really know how to fill out the book other than the intent of doing "demon trapped but falls in love". I would have loved to have seen more of his denial or anger towards having gained emotions/having to deal with a witch with no control of her powers, but instead he was fighting attraction straight away and cleaning up her house.I enjoyed the various voices that she used for the characters and thought that she added just the right amount of emotion to her reading.

I found this book to have the right combination of romance, humor, and magic featuring characters that I won’t soon forget. Don’t get fooled with his nickname Ozorth the ruthless: nothing is merciless about that charming evil! But his reputation has suffered ever since a bargain went awry—if he can strike a bargain with Mariel, he will earn back his deadly reputation. No matter how hard she tries Mariel can’t get the demon to leave and let her go back to her spellwork but when her mother shows up things really get complicated.and he falls first and as soon, as he realizes, that he doesn't want her to lose her soul, he becomes one of the best book-bf ever. Here’s the quick recap of plot: before Mariel Spark’s birth, the wind, the earth and the stars had all signified that she was going to be the strongest witch in the generations of the famed magic family.

was fine at first, but that coupled with her constant interactions with her mother left me beyond exhausted and unwilling to continue reading this book. I don't know why 3rd act breakups are thrown into books that already have drama and tension in the plot.Honestly though, her being this bad at magic just pissed me off because at 70% of the book HOW are you still incompetent? Sarah has an MA in archaeology and has excavated at an Inca site in Chile, a Bronze Age palace in Turkey, and a medieval abbey in England. A young witch who hasn’t discovered her full potential, nourishing her plants, enduring her ultra narcissistic mother’s verbal abuse accidentally summons a powerful demon who insists to take away her magic/ soul! I was most annoyed by Mariel believing in Oz the whole time until one person suggests something is his fault and she goes and turns her back on him straight away like BRUH. Mariel then ups the magical mishaps when she tries to use magic to summon an ingredient for cooking and accidentally summons a demon, Ozroth (H).

She co-hosts the Wicked Wallflowers Club podcast about romance fiction, which was featured on Entertainment Weekly's "Must List. Becoming awkward roommates quickly escalates when Mariel, terrified to confess the inadvertent summoning to her mother, blurts out that she’s dating Ozroth. Hawley delights in her humorous and romantic paranormal debut…Hawley ably navigates life and love among toxic family members, fantastical chaos, and small-town politics—with some steamy scenes and plenty of dad jokes along the way. The experience of reading this book is like being invited on a picnic lunch to the English countryside in summer by the funniest person you know.There were some basic editing issues, with names being in lowercase or spaces between words missing a few times. Because I was reading this for a book discussion, I didn't quit like I normally would and it did get a little better in the second half. Before anything else, this was an enjoyable, well written book and once I got into it, it was hard to put down.