Did not finish. The beginning was a bit rough, but it got interesting once it moved into the main storyline. The narrative kept flip-flopping in tone, though; like the author couldn't decide whether they were writing a cozy paranormal Regency mystery or an erotic romance. I enjoy both genres, but wish the story had stuck to one. I lost interest about halfway through and moved on to something else.

This was a fun fantasy tale that wraps adventure, magic, and romance together. I have a feeling the sequel will be even better.
What caught my attention was that it was branded for fans for a Discovery of Witches. I'm not sure if I would deem that appropriate since that is one of my all time favorite book series, but it is still enjoyable!

For me, this needed more of something like building this world. It never brought all the elements together. I took me a long time to get through it.

Coven at Callington is the first in a historical fantasy series featuring a reimagined 1800s with witches, warlocks, and church guards whose role is to keep the peace between the witches and warlocks. The son of a warlock and witch goes missing in the midst of his baptism, bringing together Merryn, the female lead, witch, and Coven Protectress and Braden, the male lead and church guard. This is a classic story of two people from opposing sides who bond together over a crisis and wind up falling in love. There were other smatterings of supernatural creatures thrown in here and there from faes to barguests. Each chapter started with blurb of ongoing events from the perspective of an inanimate object such as a mountain to an animate object such as a barguests. This was a bit weird and interrupted the flow for me as a reader. I recommend leaving this approach out of future installments. I feel like there are glimpses of interesting things worth more attention, namely the concept behind the apprenticeships with warlocks and the origins of the witches/warlocks.

I don't know what to say. I'm a fantasy lover but this book was a bit too much on the fantastic and it seemed to me it was missing a world building necessary to keep all the elements together.
Sorry but it's not my cup of tea.
Many thanks to the publisher and Netgalley for this ARC

I don’t exactly know what to say. Something was simply off about this book...asking me to stretch my imagination to a place it simply couldn’t go. And I say that as a person who reads werewolf, vampire, and deep space stories with very little eye rolling. However, stories like that have to be done incredibly well, without a heavy hand. This story takes heavy handed fantasy and runs with it. Talking polecats. Witches that are actually transdementional aliens. A church guard who grows to find all of these things perfectly acceptable without having a crippling crisis of faith. The writing itself, the word craft, wasn’t bad. The story it wove was somewhat convoluted.