Felix Silver is a Gay witch who likes cute outfits. He moves in with his Gran in Dorset Harbor to finish his senior year. Teenagers start going missing. They need to figure out why and who.

I'm a big fan of paranormal books. Anything that says Witches I'm in. This book started out rocky. I wasn't sure if the book was located in England or America. I'm still unsure. There are lots of American metaphors with British terms. I spent the first half of the book confused and had to re-read to try and figure out what was happening. Then the end of the book came together and ended up really enjoying the story.

An enjoyable read with so many nods to cultural tropes that readers across the age range will recognise. Not perfect by any means but I'd be interested to see more from.this author.

I enjoyed this story for what it was, a young YA fantasy story. It wasn’t a perfect story but it was entertaining. I realized quickly what was going on in the story and who was to blame but that didn’t stop me from finishing the book. The romance in this story is cute but I wish there was another romance between two other characters. There was a part where it hinted at it but then it died there too. Some parts were a bit rushed and could have been explained better. This is definitely a fast paced book and is lighthearted. It is a nice little story to read if you want a quick read with some magical elements!

For starters, if I could I'd probably give this a 3.5 instead of a 3 but I rounded down instead of up.

I had an...interesting journey with this book. I started off really enjoying it, aspects of it reminded me of one of my favorite movies Practical Magic, with a little bit of Gilmore Girls thrown in. But as the book went on, it started to become a bit too much on the quirky/kooky/crazy town side. The amount of characters who seemed to only exist to be weird quirky characters quickly piled up, and they just ended up becoming slightly annoying. It seemed like everything had to be kitschy and "charming" but there was so much of it that it just became slightly annoying.

My biggest gripe is that the book....doesn't seem to know where it's set? Like, from reading it you would obviously think it was set somewhere in England by the way the characters talk and text, the way the place is described and they explicitly say so, but then a character will randomly make a (actually funny tbh) joke about Fox News and it immediately rips you out of the book and just leaves you confused as to where these people actually live. Something so specifically American was said by specifically British characters enough times that it bothered me enough to make note of it, the biggest of which was probably calling the grade levels by their American names instead of their English counterparts.

Really, it should have just been set in America because there's nothing that setting it in England adds to the book, other than just being able to make the aforementioned charming English countryside village.

The book also switches narrators multiple times without telling you who is actually speaking until you figure it out for yourself a few paragraphs in. I think adding a simple name to the top of a chapter where the narrator changes could solve that pretty quickly though.

Now, onto what I did like.

I liked the actual plot, it was a fun little mystery. I liked the "villain", and I loved Aero. Felix was cute, but Aero was the real winner in the book for me. I love some bisexual representation, and the way Aero handles people questioning him about it is great. Aggie was also wonderful, the king of eccentric character that I like, I just wish she hadn't been drowned out by an entire town of eccentricities so she could have stood a little more in her weirdness alone.

Overall, the book was enjoyable to me but it didn't blow my socks off. I think a lot of the issues I had with it could be fixed by another round of edits to change out all the american-isims for their british counterparts which would at least help with people getting thrown out of the book, but my biggest issue with the characters can't be solved as easily. Other people might not have that same issue with them that I did, so I'd say if you don't mind a heaping dose of eccentric weirdos coming at you then this book might just be for you.

Felix Silver, Teaspoons & Witches is a YA book about a teen who goes to live with his grandma and learns witchcraft, makes witchy friends, and gets a really cool familiar. I really enjoyed the story, it was a quick and fun read. However, the author alternated character POVs which I did not pick up on until about a quarter way through. Both main characters have the same tone and voice. I could not tell the difference between them until other characters were mentioned. It can be confusing. Once you can get Feliz and Aero's paragraphs straight, you should be set. I liked the plot, although it was kind of predictable, it was a fun ride.

Oof, where to start with this one. The good thing it's got going for it is that it was very easy and quick to read. However, that's kind of where the good parts stop. First of all, and this is my biggest frustration with this book, is that it is supposedly set in England - the characters explicitly say this - but it very clearly written with absolutely no concept of British culture/society whatsoever. All of the spellings, for starters, are American (i.e. Dorset Harbor when it should be Harbour, color when it should be colour) - if the characters are British, they're not going to spell things the American way. There were so many American-isms it was so annoying. Saying "senior year" instead of sixth form, "sneakers" instead of trainers, "Math" instead of Maths, "kindergarten" instead of reception/early years, "faucet" instead of tap, "commercial" instead of advert --- I could literally go on and on and on.

I think that if the story had been set in America, it would have been maybe a 2.5 or 3 stars. There were other problems with this book as well, in that the magic system is not explained at all - some people have magic, some don't, some people know about it, some don't, you can fly around on a broom but some people don't about magic - it was all just very confusing. It also switched between two first person POVs in different chapters, but with absolutely no indication of whose perspective we were reading from, which meant you were reading and waiting to see the other main character's name to figure out whose perspective it was.

This book was kind of just a whole mess. I'm sorry. I even looked up the author afterwards and they are British-Australian, so there is really no excuse for this whole Americanisation of Britain mess that this book is.