Go Hex Yourself

i should’ve killed myself

I was not aware this was fanfic. I didn't even know that was a thing. The cover does not reflect the language and tone of the book. It's not cutesy/Hallmark. It's light-hearted, yes, but it's definitely modern.

Spooky. Sweet. Spicy. I loved it.

love the witchy enemies to lovers vibes. all my witchy girlies need to read this book NOW

Yeah, this was garbage. The main characters were so annoying. Reggie is a “control freak” and has ocd. I don’t see how she’s controlling at all but we do get endless descriptions of her tidying and organising stuff in this ancient house that nobody asked her to do and that only makes things harder for her employer. She can’t read the titles of these magical books but takes it upon herself to reorganise a 1000 year old library. Then she makes a mess and leaves. I found her reluctance to believe in magic annoying as well. It dragged on for too long when we knew that she would come around and discover she’s a witch herself anyway. Ben, a 500 year old warlock, is a “grumpy” old man. “He’s really quite smart and lovely. He’s just lonely. He’s not good with people. Never has been. His parents are to blame for that.” He’s had 500 years to get over it?? He’s lonely because he’s not a good person. He acts like a child and has been straight up mean to Reggie since the start but she hears this and her heart just melts for the poor guy. I’m all for the hate to love trope but this is not it. He’s in a position of power, constantly threatens to fire her, watches her while she’s alone without her consent, feels disappointed when he sees she isn’t masturbating. Nothing about him is remotely charming. For her part, she also watches him while he’s jerking off without him knowing but at least it wasn’t on purpose and she has the decency to come clean about it. All of this is passed off has a humorous situation which is also my issue with this book. The “funny” bits aren’t remotely funny. Her gay best friend sends her nudes that his boyfriend sent him and its only a mild annoyance to her. Bet if it was a girl that wouldn’t be okay. The cat, Maurice, is a human man trapped in a cat’s body who’s constantly rubbing up on her, following her around in the shower, sleeping in her bed and when she finds out she’s outraged for one second before he mollifies her by saying he told the cat to stay away from her. What a gentleman. The only reason I kept reading this was because I wanted to see how much worse it could get. And it kept getting worse until the end.

I waffled between 4 star and 5 star. I say this in the best way: this book is a guilty pleasure. Overtly a Reylo fanfic, with all our favorite sequel characters making cameo appearances. Just don’t take it too seriously. Just a little *too* much sex for my personal preference. But otherwise entertaining. It did what it set out to do.

A typical formula for a enemies to lovers, it was almost too simple sometimes thought and that felt like it’s downfall. A fun read but I don’t think I’d recommend it.

I thought this was a good quick read. The first third kinda annoyed me because it was repetitive but then I got in to it and ended up really like the main characters. It’s a fun world to be in a for a bit.