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

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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