I just love novels centered around witch's. # Ahisha McGregory has a novel #Tne Demon's Pursuit of Mor that is fun. It's in her series #The Laurent Witches Book 1.

Description:
Morgaine Palmer since she was 15, has dreamed of joining the Circle of Light. A elite sect of covens, tasked with protecting witches from demonic attack. Young witches fortunate enough to join...

I really enjoyed Morgaine as a character, I thought she was a unique characters and enjoyed getting to know her. The story was great and I liked the way the author writes.

Thank you to the publisher and NetGalley for an ARC in exchange for an honest review. This book was different to my normal reads but it had everything. I thoroughly enjoyed this book and would hughly recoment it

For my taste, this book had a very sluggish beginning. I put it down several times until I could motivate myself to continue reading. Once you get past that point, it's a thoroughly readable and entertaining book.

Although the slow start took me some time to get going, I thought that this was a very promising start to a series and will be looking forward to reading the next parts. I especially enjoyed Mor's character, and found her especially realistic and relatable but I thought that parts of the story were a bit confusing due to the time jumps. All in all though a very good read.

This is one of those books that I got because of the cover, and you must admit that it looks so good!

The best parts of the story were the world-building, the magic system, and of course, the plot twists. It has a slow start, but be patient as the story picks up and is much better-paced in the second part of the book. It's intriguing as if you can see the author honing her craft throughout the book. It was the second part of the book that made me truly connect with the characters and root for them. I particularly enjoyed Mor and Cage's relationship.

Overall, it is a good story, with morally gray and relatable characters. We get multiple POVs, including the antagonists which was refreshing. I wish there was a little more showing than telling, but all in all, I loved the story.

This is another case of first half of the book and second half don't look like the same book. I loved the second half, the first half not so much.
Also... why would you do that to the end? I get cliffhangers but... no.
Overall this was a good very entertaining book with great world building but predictable plot twists.
I might check out the next book... I'm not going to lie I'm curious.

Thank you to Netgalley and the publishers for the chance to read this book in exchange for an honest review.

It has been so long since I fell in love with a witchy world but I absolutely adored this one!

With well written characters and an amazing plot this book had me hooked and left me craving the next one.

A must read for witchy lovers!

This book had me conflicted as the second part of the book proved to be way better paced than the first. In the beginning it was hard form me to invest time in the book as I didn't felt any attachment to them, but as soon the pace picked up and I started to enjoy more of the reading experience, the emotions started to flow better. The ending seemed a bit confusing, but overall it was not a bad book.

I received a copy of this book via Netgalley. I knew it was available via NetGalley because of interacting with the author, Ahisha McGrefory, on Twitter. I promised to review the book, though I'd hoped to have it done at least a month earlier than I have. The delay starting the book is because I was still reading other books for my book group. The delay finishing the book and writing the review is because January 2021 has not really been any better than most of 2020 for reading and focusing.

To get 5-stars from me requires the book to be one of my favorites. This book didn't quite make the cut. For the first half of the book, I wasn't sure why the title was The Demon's Pursuit of Mor, but the woman on the cover appeared to be a different character in the book. The book could have used a better story editor. There was a lot of worldbuilding and information, and much of it came in the form of exposition and slight info dumps. 
The title itself is a mystery for much of the book. Who is the demon? Which demon is pursuing Mor? I spent most of the book searching for the answer to this question. McGregory constructed her characters carefully. They drive the narrative. Additionally, all her characters are morally grey, which is a popular choice right now. She does an excellent job. It's a relatively fast read.
I recommend this book if you like witches and supernatural stories with morally grey characters. There is a lot going on and a lot of world-building. I'm interested to see where the series goes!  (Especially since it left off at a cliff-hanger.)

First of all, atypically I have to start at the end, because WHAT. THE. HELL. I know this is first book in a series but it finishes literally IN THE MIDDLE OF A BATTLE!!! Not cool, Ahisha, not cool.

That out of the way, I enjoyed the storyline of this arc. The blurb describes almost half of the book and the author describes the world we are entering quite nicely. I wasn't quite sold on Morgaine's first love interest, it didn't really feel right. Her relationship with her "beloved" sister was also quite odd.
When we get to the part after the blurb, there is quite a lot of time jumps which make the story quite confusing. Also, the book is written in third person the whole time so I was quite confused why we were told which character we are with. If the chapters were just numbered, it would have been better, less confusing and easier to follow, in my opinion. By the end of the book, I wasn't too sure that Morgaine was still the main character as there was a lot of the second part of the book that had nothing to do with Morgaine.

I rated this book 3/5, because the story is ok, but nothing spectacular. The writing is easy to follow, but it wasn't unputdownable. I for one will probably not remember to look for the second one.

First of all this book is very underrated! It’s really a hidden gem! At first the story was kind of hard to get into. Mor was a little bit annoying at first! But a few chapters in the story kicked off and I really enjoyed it! Overall a very nice read!

The Demon's Pursuit of Mor is about Morgaine, a young witch set on becoming a Circle of Light member -a coven that protects other witches from demons. However, when her mother dies, her and her sister are left to pick up the pieces. When Lord Lincoln Winston comes to her sister's birthday party (an attempt to get her sister out of her depression), Morgaine and her family are swept off their feet by the charismatic leader. Though it becomes apparent he's hiding a dangerous secret. When Morgaine digs a little to deep, she gets on his bad side and everything as she knows it will never be the same.

I wanted to like this book. The plot sounded intriguing enough however the execution just wasn't there. The characters seemed too juvenile to be in their twenties. They're too overreactive and all over the place. I couldn't get a read on any of them enough to like them. They don't have consistent personalities. Morgaine - 'I hate this guy. He's definitely evil' to 'He is helping me so much. This can't possibly have a hidden motive'. The plot twists were painfully obvious, the romance just seemed too rushed. Nothing was organized well.

Overall, the book was just too heavy on the descriptions. I don't care what everyone is wearing or how their hair is done -it adds nothing to the story. And here's this gem: Her double French braids said, 'I am a nice person.' What? I've known plenty of terrible people that have worn French braids. I was not deceived by them wearing their hair a certain way. I don't understand the correlation. If a character gives off a friendly impression, show me by her mannerisms.

There was potential in some parts of the book. The magic system and their hierarchy seemed well thought out I want to be more positive about the book but I don't have much to go off of. I'm sorry, this is a hard pass for me.

Thank you to NetGalley, the publisher and the author for an eARC in exchange for an honest review.

There are things here that are interesting - the ideas, the premise of the story and the setting are all engaging and could almost make you want to read the entire thing. But then we get to the problematic parts.
Right from the start all the feelings and motivations of the characters are presented as facts. The omniscient narrator tells you that one character is not happy about the situation, that another is proud or angry or annoyed. We then are told that this or that is happening.... However we are never SHOWN anything. And the attention span of the telling is the same as that of a squirrel in a nut shop. Poof and it's gone.
There is a moment at the start of the book when a character is about to watch a video of the previous scene and instead of showing us what the character is focusing on we switch to something completely different.
Besides this show/tell issue, I also have an issue with the prose. Often we get incomplete sentences or redundant ones.
We also get so many descriptions. So many. We know, in detail what kind of trees grow around the mansion and what kind of artificial flowers are placed under the windows. We know what kind of rug is in the foyer and what wood the doors of individual bedrooms are made of. We really don't need that.
And another thing - we really really don't need to be given a detailed description of physical appearance of every character we come across. Do you need to know the EXACT height of a character? No, of course you don't.
All in all, there is potential here, but the potential is sadly mostly wasted.

Mixed feelings about this one. Love the cover!

Pros - I liked Mor, she's strong, doesn't always get things right but carries on going. I liked the other strong women around her too. I liked the different view points the chapters were written from, giving the reader a look into different character's thinking. the magic system was well presented and easy to understand. the book is well written.

Cons - I didn't find I could get deeply into the characters, there was a lot of telling about what the characters were doing rather than showing and a lot of descriptive passages and these slowed things down a bit for me. Also, I found the politics and manoeuvring a bit much for me.

On balance, although I enjoyed the book I probably won't read the next in the series.

I really enjoyed this book! The worldbuilding is very intriguing and the characters are either likeable or despicable in the right way. The story was well paced and pleasant to follow and the different points of views were well exploited. However, I did find dome descriptions a little too long and the style was sometimes not very smooth. Apart from that, it was a fun and exciting read and I'm really excited to see what the author has in store for the sequel!

After starting this book I had conflicted feelings. I liked it, then I didn't, then I did again.

The beginning felt a little slow which definitely contributed to me being unsure about it. The relationships (especially Mor's with her first love interest) didn't seem that strong and it took me half the book to start feeling some sort of attachment for the characters.

I almost skipped the first couple of chapters that weren't in Mor's P.O.V. because the characters (other than Oliver) weren't as relevant to her story yet. I think we could've benefited from getting to know both of them some more before throwing other characters into the mix.

Other than the initial slowness, something else that bothered me were the time jumps. You blink and suddenly it's been a few weeks/months but the characters sometimes act as if no time at all has passed and yet they also do? Maybe some filler chapters would've been better or telling the reader upfront that there was a time skip instead of inserting it in the middle of the chapter.

The second half is definitely better. WE GET CAGE. He reminds me a bit of John Constantine from DC's Legends of Tomorrow (and his own series).

I loooooveeeee Cage and Mor's weird relationship, it's so cute. That's one place where I don't mind the lack of details. It's the small little things mentioned that really make it work.

Eventually I did warm up to the rest of the characters. Their support for each other is very sweet.

BUT THAT ENDING. WHAT WAS THAT? A very confusing cliffhanger that could've ended at the "paper" scene.

That kind of ties into another smaller issue where I wasn't sure if some scenes were flashbacks or dreams until I read them in full. The ending wasn't written like that (as in Italic script) so I guess it really happened? BUT HOW WHAT HUH??? SO MANY QUESTIONS.

Questions that won't be answered until book two. Sigh. This is so mean. Is there even a release date? Please say yes.

*Thank you to the publishers and NetGalley for providing me with a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review*

Thank you Netgalley for a copy of this book! I can’t wait for the next book in Mor’s story the writer has a lot of talent I found it very easy to connect with the characters straight away and I was never put off with the changing POV’s like I am with some books. The author actually made me hate the villains which I usually don’t do and I found the world-building and the magic system intricate but easy to understand in the story. The cliffhanger at the end was well executed and if I hadn’t already known I wanted to read the next book then I would’ve after that! I love the representation and the strong female characters in this book and Mor's dialogue was very well written. My only issue with this book was the timeline I feel it could benefit the readers if there had been some indication of time passed between chapters as sometimes one chapter took place straight after the one before and sometimes months or weeks had passed. Also due to this, I feel like we lost out on seeing some relationships develop. Other than that I think this author has done a wonderful job and I highly recommend this book

Link to my review on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/p/CIwUiuHARXS/

This is Ahisha McGregory’s debut book and I really enjoyed The Demon’s Pursuit of Mor.

The magic system and world in The Demon’s Pursuit of Mor is very interesting as well as well done. I really enjoyed seeing different people being represented in the book.

I always enjoy reading books that have strong female characters and Morgaine definitely is one. There is other female characters throughout the story and they compliment Mor which was amazing to see.

Overall I did enjoy The Demon’s Pursuit of Mor and I look forward to reading more from Ahisha McGregory.

I LOVED this book. I think it was a great story that I was really able to sink myself into. Personally, I had some minor issues with the writing initially, but there is so many positives to this book that I was able to overlook them.

Cons-
- I think the author used elongated/ dramatised words (e.g. - ‘no-o-o’, ‘ple-e-ease’, ect) a little bit too much throughout the book. For me, I found it a little annoying, and a little unprofessional, but at the same time, it did help capture the image and the personality of certain characters very well.

- I think some of the descriptions of places were a little over done as well. I just found that I was skipping large chunks of text during the descriptions of rooms and features, because I felt they weren’t always needed.

- Cage’s part in this book seemed like it needed a little bit of development. In my opinion, the book had to have a more in depth storyline for him for me to really settle with him as a character. I think his and Mor’s relationship was a little strange. I wanted more filler chapters with them.

- And that kind of leads into my last point here. I think there was big gaps in the timeline that needed to be filled; in particular, towards the end of the book.

Pros-
- Trans/ cross dressing, representation was featured in this book, yet, it didn’t feel as if it was a forced feature to the story. The character, Duchess is well and tastefully written, and his part of the book doesn’t stand out like a sore thumb to make it seem like his part was just there so the author could tick off the diversity box on the checklist.

- Strong female characters. A lot of the female characters in this book were in a prominent position of power, and played a part in helping Mor, not hindering her. Mor was already strong willed and a great witch, but I find it refreshing that her success was made due to her brute strength AND because of the support team she had around her.

- The author made you really loath the villains of the book. For a reader, I think that is a sign of the author’s ability to write a good story. I hated the bad guys just as much as the characters did.

- I don’t read a lot of books on witches, but I found the magic system easy to understand, and I didn’t find that I questioned the possibility of certain spells or sequences of events. It was believable and achievable enough. This is, again, a testament to the author.

- I liked how all the characters were tied together. Initially the reader is left a little scrambled by all the new names and voices, especially since more characters are added to the story as the book progresses, but it didn’t feel as if there was any unnecessary characters.

In conclusion, I think the is a great YA/ New Aged Adult book. The spell casting and witchy elements are fantastic throughout the storyline. The author didn’t fail in making you love some of her prominent characters, and all for different reasons. There are some great one liners that will leave you giggling, and moments that will make you really feel like wanting to fight beside the characters you love.

There is set to be more books in this series. I can’t wait to read further into this series and see how Mor’s story progresses.

I was given the opportunity to read this book thanks to Ahisha McGregory and NetGalley in exchange for my honest review.