This was a very middle-of-the-road book for me. But I do know people I can recommend this book to that will love and enjoy it.

This book is exactly what it says it is, I just didn’t like it very much. It was the characters for me. I just didn’t connect with either of them. I might give this another try on audio some day but I was just not vibing at all after the first half.

Very Mr and Mrs Smith, this action packed love story has all the feels, friends, and family you could wish for.

Mr. & Mrs. Witch by Gwenda Bond
Savannah Wilde is a witch and Griffin Carter is a top agent to primarily hunt witches. They meet and fall in love and plan to marry. Neither knows the others' secret. Everything blows up at the wedding and they are ordered to end each other. They have to work together to save themselves and their family and friends.
Reasons I enjoyed this book:
Action-packed Wonderful characters Romantic Page-turner Happily Ever After Entertaining Funny.

Thank you to Netgally,St. Martin's Press, and St. Martin's Griffin for allowing me to read this book.

What if a witch is about to marry a witch hunter and neither know their true identities? You would get Mr. & Mrs. Witch. I really enjoyed the the permise of the book. However, some of the choices took me out of the story. For example, the novel is told in a non-linear fashion switching back and forth between the past and present. I didn't really care about the past. I was more invested in present. I could have personally done without the past story line. It felt more of the action and tension exixted within the present story line.

Both Savvy and Griffin were lovely characters. I do wish there was a little more tension between the two.

It was a fun fast-paced read perfect for any time of the year. I personally would read it during spooky season.

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This book started off strong! The introduction to the plot and characters was smooth, funny, and engaging. It was easy to feel the connection between the two main characters that would set up the rest of the book, especially with the flashbacks to give insight into their whirlwind relationship. The problem is that the book is as whirlwind as the timeline of the main character's relationship.

The story seemed to move at lightning speed, which was fine at first but then dragged on. It was hard to stay engaged and immersed when things were being introduced and dropped immediately just to allow more things to happen. It just begged the question of what would the story have been if a little more time had been spent on certain plot points.

The information dump when it came to world-building was nice until it wasn't and became overwhelming midway through. The ending felt so incredibly rushed that it entirely cheapened the story and relationships for me.

Overall I'd give this book 3.75 stars out of 5 because there were definitely issues but it was still good.

Mr. and Mrs. Witch was a magical version of a Mr. and Mrs. Smith type story. As the main characters are ready to celebrate their marriage, they realize that neither is who they seem and that both are magical and their families hate each other. Lots of plotting and intrigue push the story along until everything gets straightened out in the end. This was an entertaining and fun adventure. Thank you to Net Galley for letting me read this book in return for my honest opinion.

Thank you to NetGalley for a digital ARC in exchange for an honest review!

This book is very much as advertised - a witchy spinoff of the Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie film, Mr. and Mrs. Smith. The writing is fast paced action, like the film, so it was a very easy and fun read.

Unfortunately, I struggled with the overall lack of depth. The characters were caricatures, and I struggled to emotionally connect with them or their relationships. The magic system was really nonexistent, written rather blandly. Its written often as a statement, like “Savvy magicked this.” I wanted to know how that worked and what it entailed and what the limitations were!
The action suffered from this too. The H.U.N.T.E.R. organization is badass; they deal with magical threats and monsters! But the writing was just very “they took care if this.” WHERE IS THE FLAVOUR?

Overall, this was a popcorn-flick of a book - fun, fast, but ultimately empty and forgettable.

Savvy and Griffin are about to get married, but right as she's approaching the alter they discover they're from competing supernatural organizations! She's a witch who's a part of C.R.O.N.E and he's an agent from the aptly named H.U.N.T.E.R. In that moment, the two of them have to confront the fact that their relationship was founded on a number of lies and figure out what to do about the fact that they're mortal enemies.

As a fan of supernatural rom coms (like Gwenda Bond's Not Your Average Hot Guy books before this), alternate universes, and tropes, I loved this premise! And Gwenda Bond does a great job with building out the supporting characters in her novels to give us lovable and complicated friends like Diego and Brie and endearing animal companions like Paris.

I have to admit, this one took a bit for me to get into. The first eight chapters or so (and they're short chapters so don't let this discourage you!) were mostly setup that was a little tough for me to get through. But once we got into the Mr. & Mrs. Smith of it all, the book really heated up for me and I had a great time!

Would recommend to any fans of fast-paced contemporary fantasy romcoms!

I LOVED this. It would be such a good halloween read and I’m gonna buy a physical copy to reread this halloween. I love Griffin and Savvy so much, I love the witches, I love the forbidden romance. The plot was so interesting to me and I just really enjoyed this, I flew through it honestly. I can’t wait to read more from this author. Thank you SO much NetGalley for providing me with the arc.

Cozy witch adventure. This was cute and sweet with fun quirky side characters. The book switches time periods with the fast paced action scenes of the now and try the past year as try the two main characters get too know each other and fall in love. The premises is fairly simplistic and made for just fun reading that had me laughing out loud in certain places. I loved all the animals and friends that were in the stories. The attraction that these two felt for each really made this a must read for those that like romance, action and a little witchy magic that results it true love.

This book is so much fun! I love how it’s told both in the present and using flashbacks. I was so pleasantly surprised with this book! (I was less than thrilled with her two previous books, including Not Your A weave Hot Guy).

I had pretty high hopes for Mr & Mrs Witch, and ultimately, the book didn’t live up to them. While this paranormal romance book is heavily (and I mean heavily) inspired by Mr. and Mrs. Smith, it just fell a little short of being something worth recommending. If you’ve seen the aforementioned movie just once, then you’ll know where this book is going. Literally. It’s almost an exact copy of the first part of the movie, but with witches.

Savvy and her beau, Griffin, are both living secret lives from one another. Savvy is a witch, who also happens to be a sort of spy who goes out and neutralizes harmful magic. Griffin does much of the same thing, but also hunts down witches. It is unclear if he’s ever killed a witch, or if he just sort of stops them using their magic and sends them on their way. (This should have been a bigger deal!) Their secret lives come to light on the day of their wedding, and well, everything goes to hell in a hand basket, as it were. Savvy is a sassy, does-what-she-wants sort of woman. I liked her! I also really loved that her familiar was a huge black panther. Way cool. Griffin was sort of a limp rag of a person, but with some small interesting bits. We really don’t see much of who he is, unfortunately. And yes, this book is dual POV, so that leaves a lot out. Either way, they were decently cute together, but there were huge swathes of the book that felt unrealistic. But Jordyn, you say, this is a paranormal romance novel, it’s not supposed to be realistic! Uh the RELATIONSHIP can be realistic, my friends. And that’s what I’m talking about here.

Could you really stay with someone else after finding out both of you were lying about almost everything? I’m not sure I could. The steamy scenes were pretty gosh darn steamy — I think there were three? Total? Nothing was closed door, thankfully! There’s a good one that takes place in a car after a chase. That one was memorable!

There were some bits of neat world building sprinkled throughout the book — I loved all of the familiars, personally. I loved the idea of CRONE and HUNTER. But other than that, this one just fell a little flat for me. I wanted it to be better than it was — especially the ending, which feels more than a little convenient or contrived. Not going to spoil it for anyone because we don’t do that here, but I did find myself wondering out loud, “That’s it?” Oh well.

A magical approach to Mr. And Mrs. Smith.
It was a cute read, I liked both main characters and understood their motivations, although it always frustrates me when they are misunderstandings and lies, but here it was necessary to get the story going but, but to be honest, I enjoyed it more when they finally got all that behind.
I just wished it was less backflashes, I understand at the beginning to understand how they got there but the last one two days ago was completely unnecessary.

Thank you to Netgalley for an eARC in exchange for my honest review!

This story follows Savvy and Griffin as they learn the truth about each other, try to navigate their new relationship, and save themselves from a threat they didn't know existed.

I don't typically read witch romance books because I have not found one I could really connect with, but this one was really interesting. I liked the Mr. and Mrs. Smith vibes I got from it and the concept was nicely done, if not slightly cliche. I really liked both main characters, they each had their own personalities that I felt meshed well together. They were both strong, and independent, and they weren't afraid to voice their opinions which was refreshing. Their relationships with the other characters in the book were nice, you could sense they all had a close bond, but I wish they went a little more in-depth with the interactions, some of them seemed a little shallow.

In regards to the plot and flow of the book, I enjoyed how it was set up. They touched on the struggles of finding out each other's huge secret and although they didn't handle it well at first, they eventually hashed it out. I enjoyed the flashbacks to how their relationship started and progressed to their wedding day, it gave a little insight into their lives and allowed for a deeper connection between the couple and the reader. I only have two real complaints about the book. One, all details discussed in the book were not discussed in detail. Everything that happens in the book, between the interactions, background stories, and the plot was very surface level and not touched on. This made it seem like the book progressed and ended quickly without anything occurring. My other complaint was the ending. It felt like the conflict was resolved fast without any issues really starting. The fight scenes were minimal and the resolution occurred without any real hiccups.

Overall, this book was cute and the concept was really interesting. I would recommend it to those who wanted an easy-to-read romance with a fantasy aspect to it.

This was such a fun read! It was awesome jumping into a modern world with an integrated magic (and anti-magic) population and unique approach to witchy romance with the main couple being star-crossed lovers<33

I usually don’t like when books jump around in time, but it really was a perfect way to provide context to the main relationship without info-dumping—plus, it was a great break from a lot of the action that happens throughout 2/3s out the book.

I took off a few stars because I’m not the biggest fan of action-based books but I did find the majority of the action scenes to be very entertaining. I do wish the ending was fleshed out a bit more bc it felt like the main antagonists were hyped up for a whole lot of nothing.

anyway, this is definitely a fun romance with surprisingly great twists! definitely recommend giving it a shot :)

I really enjoyed Mr. & Mrs. Witch! It was an easy read and I always love a good enemies to lovers book. This was my first Gwen’s Bond book, but I definitely will check out more from her.

This was a very fun light romance fantasy novel. Savvy and Griffin our main characters are getting married but they both have a big secret. Savvy is a witch and Griffin is a Hunter. Both of them make sure that supernatural elements do not get out of control. However, their organizations do not get a long and have a lot of past baggage. The story jumps between past and present as we get to know the characters. I found it funny knowing that Savvy was a witch and how she felt about the Hunters and vise versa.

This novel has a medusa character, familiars, necromancy, and a wedding. As stated it was light reading but the story flowed well and I really loved the characters. I would recommend it and I'll be looking for more novels by Gwenda Bond.

Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for this advanced copy in exchange for my honest opinion.

Cute book! Definitely enjoyed this Paranormal Romance with lots of witchy adventure. Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for providing a free copy. I will definitely read more from this author!

Enemies to lovers? Check! Mr. & Mrs. Smith vibes but make it witchy? Check!

A powerful young witch falls for a geeky professor only to find out on their wedding day that he is a member of an opposing supernatural factions, and now must assassinate one another. Mr. & Mrs. Witch was action packed, funny, and just all around great!