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

adventurous funny lighthearted fast-paced

4.0

  Thank you to Stephanie Felty and Berkley for the review copy in exchange for an honest review. This does not change my opinion in anyaway. 

Any guide of the fantasy variety is always a good kind to me. Though if there is any kind of proper guiding in here, I do beg to wonder. However that doesn't take away from the fun reading this book is. 

The start of this book doesnt start to far off from the ending of the first book of Glimmer Falls. They are celebrating triumphing over Ozroths enemy Astaroth and saving Muriel's soul. Calladia is one of Muriel's friends, who we met in the first book. She knocked Astoroth over the mountains with the power of her fist and spells. Yet when she comes across him in an alley, being beaten up, she saves him. It is the start of a whirlwind adventure. 

There are things that I liked about this book and there are things I didn't quite like in this book. In the end the good did win out for me. 

One thing that I initially struggled with was coming from Astaroth is the enemy to the helping him out. Calladia should have tossed him to the wind. Even if she couldn't stand seeing someone being beaten up, she didn't need to take him home. She certainly didn't need to do this all alone. She should have called her friends right from the start and figure this out together. There wasn't a good reason not to. It was also highly convenient that Astaroth lost his memory. Astaroth had a slight personality transplant to boot. It made the memory loss and them being alone together very convenient for the romance. 
Once I was able to get over that, I did enjoy the book a whole lot more. It is an enjoyable fun romp. A good one to read inbetween your more serious fiction. That is not to say that it didn't touch on some serious topics. 

Seeing where Calladia was coming from was important to understanding her. Why she deflects so hard, why she jumps into fights so fast. It was good to see that she realizes that the relationship with her mother is abusive. I think that sometimes when someone isn't outright calling you names or isn't hitting you, it can be hard to recognize it as abusive. But it can be for sure. 

I also highly enjoyed that the quest brought them to this little town where they met a pack of werewolves. Especially the pack leader was a charm. But the restaurant owner was fun too. Seeing the group come together with Calladia's friends and Astoroth's mother, who is Lilith by the way, was awesome too. I love when groups that truly care for one another come together. That doesn't mean that there weren't any punches pulled. 
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