DNF @ 20%

maybe it’s just because i’m no longer in the halloween/witchy mood, or maybe it’s just the book itself.

i did not like the way the book started, and it felt like the world was not set up well (i was a little confused).

i found tilda annoying and gil didn’t give me a reason for me to love him enough to want to continue reading. maybe i’ll pick it back up again next halloween season, but for now i’m not going to force myself to read it.


*thank you to valentine pr, netgalley, avery flynn, and berkley for sending me a copy of this ARC in exchange for an honest review!

An adorable witchy heist with unpredictable magic, revealed secrets, and people who think they don't like each other but actually *like* like each other, plus a good dose of snark.

I throughly enjoyed this book immensely!! Anything with witches, count me in!! I even told my daughter about this, and she added it to her never ending TBR list. I can’t wait to read more from this author !!

As a fan of Flynn's contemporary romances, I was eager to see how she would fare in paranormal. Was it perfect? No, but I laughed and was entertained. The book had a lot more plot than I anticipated. There was the family secret, the curse, and even a heist. I did feel some things were unresolved, but I believe this is supposed to be a companion series. Maybe I will get some answers then. Either way, I was a fan of Tilda, Gil, and Tilda+Gil, and it was fun seeing them fall in love.

While this one was not my favorite, I still enjoyed it! I simply adore enemies to lovers, so I will read one whenever I get the opportunity. I liked Tilda and Gil's characters and the story line was good too. The story was easy to follow and again, I can't say no to an enemies to lovers!

Overall, I would give a 3.5, rounded up to a 4.

I came for the gorgeous cover and stayed for all of the angsty witchy romance. This was a fun read featuring the enemies to lovers, grumpy x sunshine, and opposites attract tropes.

Tilda Sherwood is a member of one of the most powerful witch families in the world. She’d have it made, if only she had her magical abilities. Tilda is considered an outcast in the magical community and finds herself being investigated by her enemy Gil Connolly, who is secretly a double agent for both The Council and The Resistance. Gil and Tilda have always been at odds with one another until their magic goes haywire and they find that their true desires can no longer be hidden.

The chemistry between Tilda and Gil was off the charts. Seeing them struggle to fight their undeniable chemistry was ✨angsty✨ and I was SO here for it. I would’ve loved to have gotten flashbacks of the two in the past so we could’ve seen more of their backstory. Overall, I’m a sucker for grumpy heroes who are cinnamon roles for their love interest and this book delivered on that front. This is the perfect escapist read to give you all of the supernatural vibes you need for the autumn season!

Thank you to Netgalley and Valentine PR for an ARC in exchange for an honest review.

3.5 stars

i have loved several of avery flynn's books, but this one did not work for me. it was a lot. it was too much, i think. it was more of an info dump than world building, or maybe that's just me, i just couldn't keep everything straight and felt like i was being told so much but didn't feel connected to the characters or anything. it really sucks because i have loved some of her books in the past. i hope this does well with other people. but it wasn't for me.

Thank you to Berkeley and Valentine PR for sending me an eARC of this book.

Tilda comes from a long line of well-known witches in Witchingdom. However, she is the black sheep of the family as the only witch without powers. Her bad luck continues when she keeps running into her nemesis on multiple blind dates. How could her luck be that bad? Her luck turns from bad to worse as Tilda finds herself needing help from the one person she wants to avoid at all costs in order to save her family. Sexy, electric, and sizzling with magic, Tilda and the ruggedly handsome know-it-all Gil devise a heist to retrieve a magical relic that is their only hope for setting things right.

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This book had lots of potential but missed the mark just a smidge for me. It was good. Not great.

I liked the world and think there were lots of funny moments to it. Having a grumpy unicorn shape-shifter was so funny. Plus, the world was interesting. It was a lot to introduce in book one, but that's just how book one's are in a new series.

I also liked that this was written in such a way that it was like Tilda and Gil were relating the story to the reader. It was kinda like reading from a journal or something. It made it more personal and a little funnier.

This book was written in dual pov which, surprisingly enough, didn't suit this book well. I truly think having single pov of only Tilda, the FMC, instead of Tilda and Gil, would have contributed to making this book better. For one, their thoughts sounded the same instead of them feeling like two distinct people. The way they acted felt distinct, but their thoughts were not. Plus, Gil was keeping a lot of secrets and I think those secrets would have been kept better and added to the suspense and slow burn by not having his pov.

Overall, this was an okay read. I think it could have been done better, but I didn't hate it.

This was a fun read. Loved the family dynamics and friendship of witches and other paranormal people. The web of magic woven will definitely take you on a very entertaining ride.

Matilda "Tilda" Sherwood is the black sheep of her witchy family, the only one without magical power, an outré. When the book opens, she is sitting in a cafe, waiting for her date from a matchmaker to show up. Her three-hundred-yearl-old sprite matchmaker had even instructed her to sit under the dragon's blood tree in the corner, the one with really gummy leaves, yes, the one that seems to want to be near Tilda. Tilda's just hoping that this blind date is not her nemesis (somehow they've been set up three times already...) but, alas, it seems she is to be disappointed.
Gil Connolly is playing a long con. He's a part of the Council but also the Resistance. The Council is a secret (even from the witches) society that seem to believe that Tilda is faking her non-magicalness. So, Gil is setting up these dates in order to see if he can figure out her deal. Too bad it seems like it may be that her deal is setting his own magic, calling out the desires of people whether it be wealth, knowledge, power, whatever, on fire.
In general, this hits about the same as Flynn's usual stories but with a paranormal twist. This book starts and ends as though Matilda is speaking straight to the reader which was a little odd since the rest of the book is alternating first person for Matilda and Gil. This book also sets up at least three more in the series as the epilogue is five years later and lets us know how everything (overall) turns out. Otherwise, this was a first book and there was so much going on in trying to set up the world and the characters that it got a little confusing.

Three and a half stars
This book comes out December 6, 2022
ARC kindly provided by Berkley Publishing Group and NetGalley
Opinions are my own

Thank you to Berkley Romance and NetGalley for the advanced reader copy and to PRH Audio for the complimentary audiobook. These opinions are my own.

Tilda has grown up believing herself to have no powers in one of the most powerful witch families around. It's a tough life, as she is relegated to just handling her family's social media accounts. But when her interference with her sister's spell goes wrong, the fate of Witchingdom is at stake. Never fear, Gil, the man she has been set up with 4 times, is there to help.

The book was told in dual perspectives for Tilda and Gil with hilarious voices and great reader asides (we're good friends). The lead up to the steamy scenes was a bit raunchy at times, but that worked with the amusing and "tell-it-like-it-is" tone throughout. I thought it was slightly misrepresented as an enemies-to-lovers. Though Tilda initially describes Gil as her "nemesis," it's not really clear why. The two of them have just met on a series of blind dates.

I loved the characters in this book. I was especially fond of all the witching misfits and the acknowledgement of how challenging that would be. And I greatly appreciated how the book spoke to the ways in which those with fewer abilities learn to think outside the box. Without being about disability or ableism, this book spoke to those topics well.

Sarah Pesek and Adam Gold narrated the novel with heart. On my app, she seemed considerably louder, so I kept having to adjust the volume when the narrators swapped. But I thought they both brought the characters and story to life so well.

I absolutely loved the ending, as it previewed the next books about Tilda's sisters. Now I can't wait to read those.

Tilda isn’t lucky. She is a non-magic in a powerful family and she ends up not once, not twice, but thrice on a date with Gil Connolly, a man whose ego equals his beauty in an Indian Jones style. One day she makes her sister’s spell glitch and all her family ends up frozen. Guess who's the only one who can help? She will uncover other secrets along the way.

Holy crap, this book was a great surprise! This book had me giggling and smiling like a fool almost the entire time. Don’t be deluded by the cute cover, this novel contains steamy scenes. Those scenes were well written. I love the character of Tilda due to the realism of her persona. She is a curvy woman with glasses adds this her clumsiness, her social network work, and she tries to date with apps or with the help of a matchmaker.

You will find in this book:

Small Town Romance
Witch and other paranormal
Enemies to lovers
Forced Proximity
He falls first
Secret and Mystery
Extra: A Raccoon who loves whiskey and belly rubs.

Thank you Valentine PR & Literary Management for this ARC in exchange for an honest review.

2.5 ⭐️
I’m really sad this book fell flat for me! I thought the premise sounded fun and wacky but not much of the book really worked for me.

The book follows two main characters. First is Tilda who is a non magical witch in a powerful witch family and used to pitying looks from everyone. The second is Gil Connolly who has to get to know Tilda for his secret agenda as a double agent working for both The Resistance and The Council. The Council are the witches in charge and they have has his family as captives and he's reluctantly working with him to save them. The resistance are the witches and magical creatures looking to overthrow the council.

The book was an easy read in the sense that the writing and characters felt very young/immature. Even with it being easy to read it was still extremely confusing. The world building and magical system weren't explained so they felt inconsistent and unimportant details were over explained so it felt like lots of info being dumped. All of the sub plots (frozen family, the heist, Gil’s family, the council, the duil magic) also added to my confusion during book. I thought the spicy scenes were the most interesting parts even though for the love of god I don’t understand how Tilda would have the flexibility and strength to pull off that wall scene. 🤔

Overall I think this will appeal to some people but it just wasn’t for me.

Thank you for the eARC in exchange for an honest review!

3.75
Thank you to Berkley Romance and Valentine PR for sending me an e-ARC of this book to read and review. I have mixed feelings about this book. On on hand it was a cute witchy rom-com with great spice and on the other, I feel like it was trying to hard to be a fantasy with little to no background info or clear world building. I knew going in that the spice would be top tier because I love Avery Flynn's other books so much. I liked this book, but it got a bit lost from time to time. There was a lot of info at points and there wasn't enough at others. I thought there was a sense of charm while reading this and not in the magic sense. I enjoyed the alternating POV's and I liked the inner monologues we got to witness as readers. The beginning was pretty slow for me and it took a while for me to really be invested in the characters and what was happening. The heist subplot was a delight and the action really fit well. Overall, this one was just a bit all over the place, but I did still enjoy what was happening.

The book's cover and synopsis drew me to the book, but unfortunately, I see now that it was a HUGE mistake. I am not mad about the fourth wall breaks, although it got annoying way too early in the story. Next, I want to talk about Gil and Tilda who are supposed to be nemeses but there's no solid backstory to it; also, I didn’t care for the romance between these two. Then there's the worldbuilding which was a lot of exposition which made the entire reading experience a bad kind of chaotic. Overall, I wouldn’t recommend this personally which is a shame as the concept of the book is really interesting but who knows someone else might end up liking it!

I'm only giving 2 stars because of the sex scenes which I liked the most💅🏻

Thanks to Valentine PR and Berkley for an eARC in exchange for a review.

Tilda is trying to making a place for herself in the magical world. She's the only one in her family that doesn't have magic. And on the past 3 blind dates, she's been set up with the same smug wizard Gil Connolly. He's attractive and horrible.

Why I started this book: Great cover, and a new to me romance author with a paranormal twist. I immediately requested an ARC.

Why I finished it: I didn't. I struggled with this one, but the struggle itself was a sign that I should stop and review it before my resentment overwhelmed the good in this story. Like the fact that Tilda's family loves and supports her, even with her complete lack of magic. The magic and world building are incredible vague, and the character development wasn't strong enough to overcome it. Inconsistent breaking of the 4th wall, without much humor. And the pacing of the story was off, feeling neither like a paranormal fantasy or a romance novel.

Wicha Gonna Do is a fun read. If you love those misfits that do not fit into the mold of being witches then you are going to love this romcom. Tilda is one of those misfits who does not opening show any powers. She has been trying to find love and keeps getting set up with Gil. Gil is a double agent not seen as having the right witch powers according to the committee. I love that Gil and Tilda have all these little moments together and how he realizes what she really is. they work so well together with Tilda's band of misfits to figure out how to save Tilda's family. What could really go wrong when magic is in the hand of the misfits? You will have to read to find out. I loved this one. Yes there were a few moments where the book dragged but overall it is a lot of fun to read. Tilda and Gil have this amazing build of chemistry and will keep you pulled into the pages. I cannot wait for more to come in the Witchington series. Gil and Tilda need to be meet today. So go one click this one now.

Avery Flynn is a new to me author and this is the first in her new Witchington series. Tilda Sherwood is part of a powerful family of witches but without her own magical abilities. She handles her family’s social media. A matchmaker keeps lining her up with Gil Connolly and alternates between their POV’s. There is humor and heat. But there is a lot of information dumping and some complexing twists that I’m not sure is needed. I wasn’t a fan of breaking the fourth wall but that is a personal choice. (Sometimes it works better.) If you enjoy paranormal/fantasy romance you’ll probably enjoy this book. I’m glad to have read this book but didn’t connect enough to the world that I need to continue the series. Thank you to NetGalley and Berkley Publishing Group for an eARC in exchange for an honest review.

I expected this to be a lighthearted magical read. Witcha Gonna Do? is a lot more adult than I anticipated. The spice and steamy levels in this book are high for me. I loved all the parts, but the steamy bits.

Tilda is an "outre". She has no magical powers, yet she comes from one of the most powerful magical families, talk about feeling like a misfit... Her quirky personality makes her endearing and while her family can use their powers to accomplish even the most mundane tasks, Tilda is bright and can solve everyday puzzles with her smarts. What throws her wildly off balance is Gil, the jerk she wants nothing and everything to do with.

Read if you enjoyed the The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches. I anticipate this will be a series and do look forward to reading the next installment.