A delightfully diverse slow burning romance that addresses racism, bigotry, homophobia, and ageism with humor and grace as Aguirre's fantastic gift of storytelling once again shines bright.

The Only Purple House In Town is a delightfully cozy, found family fantasy that is low stakes, high reward. A gentle romp in a magical world that’s just on the other side of familiar, there’s something for everyone who’s a fan of the found family trope and magic.

Iris is a magnetic force that’s been stuck alongside opposing forces for most of her life. Her family and home life are far from perfect but an unexpected inheritance sets in motion a new beginning that is life-changing for everyone involved.

Eli is a tech mogul with what should be a perfect life. But, like his new landlord Iris, he’s always been on the outside looking in.

Iris fills her new home with a cast of characters that are so different and yet still so similar. When their new balance is threatened, they have to work together to stay together.

This story has complex family dynamics, cozy relationships and magic, and lovely autumn vibes. In the end, I wanted more. More romance. More magic. More time spent in the purple house!

Thank you NetGalley and Sourcebooks Casablanca for sending this book for review consideration. All opinions are my own

The Only Purple House in Town is my favorite Ann Aguirre book yet. Iris has always been unable to quite reach her dreams. When Iris unexpectedly inherits a house, Violet Gables, she quickly realizes that she’ll need to rent out rooms to make money. Enter Eli Reese, who knew Iris from childhood. He doesn’t really need to rent a room, but finds himself doing so and unexpectedly loving it. He also has a secret- he's a hawk shifter. Iris manages to find a lovable and eclectic bunch of neighbors to rent rooms with her, creating a unique community. But as she succeeds, she learns a shocking revelation about her biological family. With an irritable next-door neighbor, city codes, and a rise of anti-magic sentiment, can the found family of Violet Gables manage to hold onto their home?

The house has a magical feel to it, though only certain characters actually possess magic. It’s reminiscent of Ilona Andrews’ Innkeeper Chronicles, mainly in the found family aspect and how they all find a way to improve the house using their talents. I enjoyed the Fix-It-Witches cameos, from previous Ann Aguirre books. My favorite part of this book was absolutely the LGBTQIA+ rep and found family. It was such a strong theme throughout the entire book, which I loved. I felt just as invested in the other characters as I did in Iris, especially Henry Dale and Rowan. The pacing was a little slow at times, but it had a very cozy feel to it so I didn't mind. I was frustrated at how long Eli waited to tell Iris that he knew her from childhood. However, I really enjoyed the conclusion and hope to see this cast of characters again in a future book!

The Only Purple House in Town would be perfect for readers who love contemporary with a touch of magic, quirky yet lovable characters, and queer found family.

Thank you to Ann Aguirre, Sourcebooks Casablanca, and Netgalley for a free ARC in exchange for an honest review.

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The was such an adorable cozy fantasy, set in one of my favorite fictional, supernatural, small towns. Iris is the black sheep of her family, never fitting in, until she inherits a house. Eli is rich and successful, but doesn’t allow himself to form lasting attachments to anyone except his Gamma, yet Iris when she was young, managed to make a lasting impression on him. He keeps track of her on socials, hoping someday for the chance to just talk to her, then accidentally gets caught up in renting a room from her. As Iris builds her found family, they all find something they’ve been missing. Each piece of the found family is special and it’s so heartwarming to see how they all fit together. The trans/non-binary/queer rep in this book is outstanding. I especially enjoyed the commentary about how using a person’s preferred pronoun is just good manners- it’s not hard at all for the “grandparents” of the found family to figure it out.
The second half of the book is faster paced than the beginning, revealing some super fun surprises! And while this story does take place in St Clair, it does not center on our fun coven. Though there are plenty of mentions of our favorites to keep us satisfied. This book is also more closed door romance which is a switch from the others in the series.

Thank you netgalley for the arc.

This was a was an amazing read! I'm so glad that this series is continuing! I love this world, and it's opened wider in this book, which was so fantastic! Because Eli is a shifter, and Iris is from a psychic vampire family. And I loved this found family that gathered around Iris, it was so great!

I honestly teared up a little bit at the beginning. I connected to both of these characters in different ways. Eli is lonely, he doesn't have any friends who would check in if he stopped communicating. And Iris she's the family screw up, that things just go wrong for her. And I related to both of those so much, it hurt to see my own loneliness reflected on the page.

The fact that Iris helped Eli from being bullied when they were children, and he's basically lightly stalked her from then on, his shy and awkwardness making it hard for him to talk to people yeah, I can understand that. The fact that when he works up the nerve, there's a miscommunication and she thinks he's one of the potential renters, that was so cute!

Watching as the group came together, of these people who were down on their luck, who needed a home, and how they formed this family, it was just so adorable! When there was the added pressure of the secrets that Eli was keeping even as he and Iris were falling in love, and her family finding out some difficult truths, and oh, an infuriating neighbour, there was a lot going on! It was just so fantastic to read!

This was an amazing read and I'm so glad that I decided to read it on my birthday, and I can't wait for more!

This book had the potential to be a five star read.

It’s frustrating that the author had to slip in something about the LGBTQ+ into every little crevice. It felt forced and unnecessary. Like the part where someone drives by and shouts that they forgot the rainbow flag on their “gay” purple house. It had nothing to do with the story line and didn’t increase the plot? And they/them pronouns do not translate well in a book. It just felt like the author was trying really hard to be “tolerant” of all of the things, when the book didn’t really need half of them in the first place. Then they swing completely opposite when it came to a family of Christians. The author acted like they were monsters.

Speaking of monsters, the fantasy element of this book could have been left out entirely. It was barely there at all. If it’s going to be a fantasy, I expect more from it than a “witch” repairing the crack on an iPhone.

Let’s talk about Joe, I mean, Eli. Stalking is not okay. Trying to play off his issues is weird. Let’s not sweep that under the rug. That kind of behavior is unacceptable. When you’ve had ONE encounter with a person and then stalk their social media for YEARS and then move in with them under false pretenses… that deserves a hospital stay.

The twist was ridiculous.

I realized this is the fourth book in a series, only after finishing it. That should’ve been indicated somewhere in bold writing. This book didn’t feel like a continuation, but a starter story.

I enjoyed the characters and the amount of depth they each had, particularly the side characters. I find that a lot of times when a book has a lengthy cast of characters, some just seem bland. This author did a great job of creating their characters personalities.

Kinda makes me wanna live in an old Victorian house with a bunch of quirky roomies.

Thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for the ARC copy in exchange for an honest review!

First of all, this book is forth in a series? It should be highlighted. Until I finished reading it, I thought the writing style was good enough for a first book of an author, as I believed it was. I was shocked to see this author already published few books before this one. The writing style wasn't the worst thing. Worse than that were characters, their relationships and lack of their connections. As this was a clear attempt at cosy fantasy, author should have worked more on the characters, their personalities and making their connections deeper and much more meaningful. But, the worst thing about this book was magic and fantasy element in general. It just doesn't work. The setting is all wrong. It just doesn't feel like it should. It feels like this book should have been contemporary romance novel. It would work much better with the intended plot. If the fantasy element wasn't here, author could have focused more on making at least one other element right.
I would not recommend this book. I love fantasy and I like romance. But this has to be the worst attempt at romantasy I ever read. The only highlight of this book was Eli, who is low-key a stalker and in my head he looked like Noah Sebastian from Bad Omens, but now that I think of it, this book would have been better if Eli turned full on psycho stalker who went and killed everyone at Violet Gables.... that's just it, anything would be better than this book.

Iris Collins is a mess, she’s months behind on rent, her jewelry business is barely a business, and her vampire abilities haven’t even activated. So when she inherits her great aunt’s home, she thinks its the perfect chance to turn it into an air B&B and get a whole new chance to start over. Eli Reese is a shifter who as a child was once saved by Iris from bullies and has been lightly keeping tabs on her ever since. Eli is a rich introvert and dislikes most people except Iris. When he runs into her in town and she mistakenly thinks he is applying to be one of her new housemates, he goes along with it because it would be the perfect opportunity to get close to her and maybe actually talk to her after all these years. Iris begins putting out calls for housemates and soon discovers herself with a rather great group of people who not only are kind and sweet but can help her fix up the very depleted house and turn it around. The only problem is she is beginning to have a crush on her housemate Eli and despite her rule of never dating someone she lives with, its getting harder and harder to resist. Eli can’t seem to find it in himself to tell Iris the truth about how he actually knows her and as time goes on, it gets harder and harder. Then theres the issue of Iris discovering that her actual family might not be the vampire one she never fit in with and theres also a neighbor bent on getting the entire house kicked out. With so many new obstacles, can these two make it when the truth comes out?? This book started off really cute but I just didn’t really feel the chemistry between Iris and Eli. Eli fixated on Iris and essentially stalked her, he even admits it’s a bit creepy how he was keeping tabs on her all these years despite not talking to her. Then there was that super unnecessary third act breakup and how Iris was mad that her boyfriend was literally trying to save the house and help her with her problems by paying for it. She was made her significant other was trying to help her for being rich and then outright refuses thus putting everyone in the house in jeopardy and leaving her at square one???? MAM???? The book started off really cute but then kind of lost me at the end. I liked parts of the book but the overall story arc felt a bit weirdly paced. Overall, it had a really cute found family story and if you like those with a supernatural touch, then definitely give this one a go.

*Thanks Netgalley and SOURCEBOOKS Casablanca, Sourcebooks Casablanca for sending me an arc in exchange for an honest review*

I love the cover art for this book. Absolutely draws you in, very cute! Unfortunately the book itself fell flat for me. I would have liked more magic and fantasy elements. In a world where there are fae, shape shifters, witches, etc I expected much more fantasy elements. I didn't care much for Eli or Iris, the interactions felt superficial/forced. I ended up liking the side characters way more and found their stories more interesting.
It was a feel good, found family story but just lacked the pizzazz I was looking for in a fantasy/romance novel.

If you’re looking for a light summer read then The only Purple House in Town fits the bill. There isn’t really much depth to the story and I didn’t really feel any chemistry between Eli and Iris. Several of the secondary characters were actually more interesting. Also I wish the paranormal elements added more to the story. But I did like how the characters came together to create a “found family” and the way things were resolved was different.

I’ll be honest. I had no idea this was book 4 in a series but after reading some reviews it looked like most read them as standalones. The cover is what really sucked me in, it’s beautiful. This book did give a log of cozy and warm vibes. Found family was sweet too. However I felt like this book lacked a lot. It didn’t have the seasoning I so desperately needed to love.

Iris Collins comes from a family that keeps reminding her that she is a failure in everything, from magic to everyday living. By a fortunate turn of events, she inherits a purple house from a great aunt. Penniless, she needs roommates to afford maintenance and renovation of the building. In comes Eli, who always felt strongly about her but starts their relationship on a misunderstanding.

The author seems to imply that magical beings (witches, vampires, shifters, fae) in this world are a minority but Iris is surrounded by them and representatives of the LGBTQ as well. Which could be okay but feels somehow as she tried to include as many genres of people as she could. It makes for a book that flies over too much without substance.

I was not impressed with it even though there was some wisdom about accepting each other, the story was too much all over the place to get attached to any of them.

This book was super fun! I didn't realize it was part of a series, I'll have to check the other books out.

Overall, I enjoyed the plot and ideas in this book, but certain elements of the characters and their interactions made it feel forced and rushed. A lot of time is spent with Iris wondering who she is, only for her to be hit with the reveal of her heritage within the final few pages of the book, but with very quick resolution to that problem and to her relationship issues with Eli. The general premise was very sweet and I was invested in it, it just seemed very abruptly taken care of after an otherwise slowly paced storyline. Some of the dialogue was rough. I loved all the food and cooking and housework descriptions, but when it came to the characters' thoughts and spoken words. it was not as natural as the prose and took me out of the story.

I Love the Fix-It Witches series and was so excited to see that The Only Purple House in Town is the fourth offering in the group. If you enjoyed the others (Witch Please, Boss Witch, and Extra Witchy) then you won't want to miss this one.

Thank you to NetGalley and Sourcebooks for the advanced digital copy.

I’m unsure how to classify this book. There’s romance, sure, but the heroine goes on such a journey (albeit with a supernatural twist) that it could be women’s fic? But it’s told from dual POV’s and the hero goes on a life journey, as well… Oh well. Bottom line, I liked it. The stakes never felt very high, so it wasn’t very lively or dramatic. It didn’t add anything to my life, but it was an enjoyable read and a nice escape.

I received a copy of this book from the publisher through NetGalley.

I really enjoyed this book! I found Iris to be such a fun quirky character and she reminded me some of myself.
Things haven't been going her way, she's barely scraping by, but then she inherits her Great Aunt Gertie's purple house. As she rents out the rooms and gets closer to these people as they help her fix up the house she starts to figure out who she is and where she really belongs.
Eli is not a stalker. Haven't you ever looked up an old friend on the internet? He just so happens to run into her and then becomes her roommate and it turns into more. Should he have told her the truth sooner? Sure, but it adds for drama in the book.
I loved all the side characters too especially Henry Dale. Grumpy crumudgen, who's really a softy at heart.
I would love to live in that purple house with all of them.
Thanks NetGalley for this ARC!

This is the first book I have read in this series (there are 4!), and I thought it was a really sweet story. Both of our main characters, Iris and Eli, feel like they don't really belong in their world. When Iris inherits part of her Aunt's estate and rents out rooms in the large house, Iris and Eli are bought together and magic and mischief ensues. There is a touch of the magic and supernatural, found family, and coziness. This is definitely for people who want a cozy, feel good story.

This was a sweet little romance book that made me want to go out and get a house to fix up. I liked how determined the main character was and kept rooting for good things to keep happening. I think when reading something fun and charming like this book puts you in the mood for more. Books like these take you away from the heavy fantasy or mind tripping mysteries and makes for a perfect weekend read.,

This was a cute and sweet story. I just hate that it took so long to get there. And I would have love to see more magic.