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A Demon's Guide to Wooing a Witch by Sarah Hawley

7 reviews

salomecanread's review against another edition

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adventurous emotional lighthearted medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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witcheep's review against another edition

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adventurous funny hopeful lighthearted fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.5

The plot of this book feels like an erratic fever dream that interconnects random places, people, and sub-plot events with a loose quest arc masked with horniness. The small happenings (such as bar brawls for fun and driving around) that don't have much impact on the world get a lot of space, whereas the grand events that alter the course of the realms seem to be managed very fast with seemingly simple solutions. This makes the book feel like it was written in a rush and pushed out into the world as fast as possible. It's a fun read, but the book could have benefitted from some more editing and refining. The first book was certainly better.

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bree_h_reads's review against another edition

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adventurous emotional lighthearted mysterious medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Plot
Strong character development? No
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.0

I was really hoping my appreciation of Calladia and her characterisation in the last book would make me enjoy this book more. Like A Court of Silver Flames did to the ACOTAR series with Nesta. Alas, it was not enough to save the book.

I’ll give the book this, it did get a few laughs out of me. It was genuinely funny in some places and could make me forget my issues with the book overall at times. I also really liked the themes/struggles Calladia had to work through. It was interesting and while I think some aspects could have been done better OVERALL it was pretty solid.

These things, however, weren’t really enough to forgive the book’s flaws. To start, the book happens over the course of five or six days and the characters are deciding they love each other by day three or four. Overall it just felt like the romance moved WAY too quickly and the author doesn’t get the different between romantic and sexual attraction. This feeling was further emphasised by completely brushing over by the fact that MAJOR conflicts and issues were kinda brushed over. It doesn’t matter how hot someone is if they tried to steal my bestie’s soul, caught their greenhouse on fire, and tried to kill their bf they’re not to be some SERIOUS talks for me to not hate them. And even then I’d never date them. The book’s excuse is Astaroth amnesia, but it’s not like anyone else lost their memory OR like he did those things against his will. It just felt weak, especially when Calladia’s friends found out about them hooking up.

FINALLY, as in the last book, they were really horny at weird times. Calladia has an intense emotional moment and the next thing we know they’re hooking up. It just felt really odd. Like, let the emotional moments linger and have their impact.

Overall it wasn’t great, but it certainly could have been worse. I do recommend it for anyone that read and enjoyed book one though! I think it’s just a little bit better overall.

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livetgjennomb_ker's review

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adventurous emotional funny hopeful lighthearted fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.5

I liked this book WAY too much. Like giggling and kicking my feet and devouring it in like ten hours total.
I’ve got a series of quotes highlighted and annotated to look back on later to giggle, swoon, and enjoy, here’s a few out of context:
“Calladia could be a mushroom. Better that than a delicate flower slowly dying in a vase.”
“I’ve been around a long time, Calladia. Just because these are less violent times doesn’t mean I’ve forgotten how to be a monster.”

Like… excuse me??? Who gave both of you the right to be this perfect?

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indieandajean's review against another edition

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adventurous emotional funny hopeful lighthearted fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

I was not prepared to forgive Astaroth when I picked up this book, but the amazing way with which his redemption was handled made me love it just as much (if not more) than A Witch's Guide to Fake Dating a Demon.

I appreciated how strong and unapologetically herself Calladia is allowed to be in this book. There has been a really great trend in romance lately of embracing women's bodies in any and every form they come in and I love to see that this has extended to strong women as well. The way that this book (and the previous) focuses on the characters building the strength they need to stand up for themselves is brilliant because it intertwines so well with the narrative while not coming off as beating the reader over the head with a message of "love yourself".

Also, the reference to AO3 got me. I definitely laughed, this author knows her audience.

The way Sarah Hawley writes these books is honestly healing for me and I can't wait for book three!

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realizedcreation's review against another edition

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adventurous funny sad medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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blissofalife's review against another edition

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adventurous funny fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

A fun, quick read and a decent sequel. Did I (like a child) audibley say "blech" throughout? You betcha. SUCH a cheesy read. There were many times I forgot I was reading a published book and not a fanfiction, such was the cheesiness. Don't get me wrong, I love fanfiction, I'm just not usually looking for that vibe outside of it.

I loved the variety of creatures and how they interacted with each other, very fun!

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