Title: This Spells Love
Author: Kate Robb
Pub Date: December 5, 2023

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This book!!! I just loved it and can’t stop thinking about it! This Spells Love, the debut novel by Kate Robb, was just so magical and was pure perfection!

Gemma can’t seem to get over her ex-boyfriend. She has tried everything, and as a last resort, along with her sister, aunt, and best friend, Dax, decide to perform a love cleansing spell to forget all about her ex. They followed the instructions in a spell book, which included kissing Dax, and then Gemma went to sleep, thinking nothing of it. In the morning, she wakes to realize the spell worked, and she never dated her ex. On top of that, her life is completely different, and Dax has no idea who she is. In order to reverse the spell and get her old life back, Gemma has to wait until the next full moon. With a month until the next full moon, Gemma has to find a way to convince Dax to become her friend and kiss her to try to reverse the spell. As it gets closer to the next full moon, Gemma finds herself wondering if she really wants to go back to the way things were before.

I loved how well this book flowed. I thought the pacing was spot on and everything worked so well! On top of that, I found myself laughing out loud throughout the book, and overall, found it to be just so adorable! This will be one I highly recommend and will likely read again!

Read If You Like:
🪄Friends to Lovers
🪄Single POV
🪄Magical Realism
🪄Adorable Rom-Coms

Thank you, Random House, for providing me with a #gifted copy of This Spells Love!

This fun debut romance was full of laughs, heart, and just a touch of magic.

Gemma is heartbroken when her BF dumps her after four years together, so she and her sister and aunt get drunk and do a spell to forget all about him. Of course pulling that one thread makes many other changes in Gemma’s life, and she must decide whether to stay in her new timeline or to try to go back to the original,

There were so many things I enjoyed here. I loved the sisterhood between Gemma and her older sister Kiersten, with the way they make snarky comments to each other yet clearly love each other dearly. Kiersten’s comments made me laugh out loud multiple times, and she was definitely my favorite secondary character. The magic spell and the events surrounding it felt like hot mess express magic and were so funny!

Gemma is a little bit of a mess herself. When her male best friend doesn’t recognize her, it throws her into a tailspin. The new relationship between she and Dax starts off so awkwardly, but quickly develops. I loved Dax aka the new best book boyfriend. His job is cool, he is charming, and he is deeply kind.

I loved the reasoning behind Gemma’s final decision, and this was just such a delightful read!

Thank you to NetGalley and Random House- Dial for the ARC in exchange for my honest opinion.

This was a cute what if read with a slightly magical twist. I really liked Gemma and her relationship with her aunt Livi and her sister Kiersten and how supportive they were even in the slightly strange circumstances. Thought Gemma and Dax had really good and hot chemistry and enjoyed how things developed in their alternate timeline. Dax was lovely in some trying circumstances and I could see why Gemma wanted to get that friendship back so desperately. I liked how the alternative timeline made Gemma confront a lot of things she was not facing in her “prime” timeline and the lessons she learnt living alt Gemma’s life. The ending was very fitting and satisfying. A very enjoyable read (3.5 ⭐️)

RATING: 3/5 STARS

I thought the premise for this one was so cute but I lost interest along the way unfortunately... The witchy elements were really appealing and I love a good friends to lovers story but this one wasn't for me.

I loved this book! By the first page it had me hooked and craving to continue, feeling as if I was in the book itself and watching the characters interact. I loved the hint of magic that it provided no knowing what the ending may bring,.

I simply adored this book. What a great debut novel! I’ll be patiently waiting to see what’s next for Kate Robb! Meanwhile, let’s talk about this gem of a book!

Gemma doesn’t see it coming, that moment where her boyfriend Stuart breaks up with her after 4 years together. She truly wishes she’d never met him. One drunken pizza and margarita night with her aunt Livi, sister Kiersten and best friend Dax might not solve her heartbreak but it will definitely make her feel a little bit better. That’s until her aunt announces that she might have a way to erase Stuart from her life. Candles, chicken and rope are gathered and a love cleanse spell is performed and sealed by a kiss between her and Dax.
When Gemma wakes up the next morning, everything is different, she’s never met her ex and quickly realizes that Dax has no clue who she is. Hoping to reverse the spell ASAP, her plans quickly come to a halt when she realizes she can’t perform a reversal of the cleanse until the next full moon, which is a month away. Stuck in this alternate reality, she tries to befriend Dax and adapt to this new life reality.

𝖱𝖾𝖺𝖽 𝗂𝖿 𝗒𝗈𝗎 𝗅𝗂𝗄𝖾：
- 𝖥𝗋𝗂𝖾𝗇𝖽𝗌 𝗍𝗈 𝗅𝗈𝗏𝖾𝗋𝗌 𝗍𝗋𝗈𝗉𝖾
- 𝖲𝗅𝗂𝖽𝗂𝗇𝗀 𝖣𝗈𝗈𝗋𝗌 𝗍𝗐𝗂𝗌𝗍
- 𝖲𝗉𝗂𝖼𝖾
- 𝖥𝗎𝗇𝗇𝗒 𝖺𝗇𝖽 𝖾𝗇𝖽𝖾𝖺𝗋𝗂𝗇𝗀 𝗌𝗎𝗉𝗉𝗈𝗋𝗍𝗂𝗇𝗀 𝖼𝗁𝖺𝗋𝖺𝖼𝗍𝖾𝗋𝗌
- 𝖥𝗎𝗇／ 𝗎𝗇𝗂𝗊𝗎𝖾 𝗌𝗍𝗈𝗋𝗒𝗅𝗂𝗇𝖾.

Would you go back and change life choices if you could?

✵𝖬𝖺𝗇𝗒 𝗍𝗁𝖺𝗇𝗄𝗌 𝗍𝗈 𝖭𝖾𝗍𝗀𝖺𝗅𝗅𝖾𝗒 𝖺𝗇𝖽 𝖱𝖺𝗇𝖽𝗈𝗆 𝖧𝗈𝗎𝗌𝖾 𝖯𝗎𝖻𝗅𝗂𝗌𝗁𝗂𝗇𝗀 𝖦𝗋𝗈𝗎𝗉 𝖿𝗈𝗋 𝗀𝗂𝖿𝗍𝗂𝗇𝗀 𝗆𝖾 𝗍𝗁𝗂𝗌 𝖠𝖽𝗏𝖺𝗇𝖼𝖾𝖽 𝖱𝖾𝖺𝖽𝖾𝗋’𝗌 𝖢𝗈𝗉𝗒 𝗂𝗇 𝖾𝗑𝖼𝗁𝖺𝗇𝗀𝖾 𝖿𝗈𝗋 𝗆𝗒 𝗁𝗈𝗇𝖾𝗌𝗍 𝗋𝖾𝗏𝗂𝖾𝗐✵

This was a really fun and light read! I enjoyed the fun spell, parallel timeline, and just a perfect amount of spice! Gemma is getting over a tough breakup when she is thrust into a parallel timeline where her life is very different than before. Her best friend, Dax, doesn't know who she is and she begins to build that relationship from the ground up. When things get a little complicated, Gemma has a tough decision to make- return to the life she knew or to stay in the timeline she has newly discovered. It's a well-written heart warming story about making decisions that are best for yourself and for those around you. Highly recommend!

Oh this was such a fun read!

I have to give thanks to Random House and NetGalley for an early copy of this. I had a great time.

This books was all warm feelings and reminded me of rom coms I grew up watching. There was not a single character I didn't like and I could read stories with them over multiple books!

This is a comy cozy read that I could come back to year after year. The book didn't have any of the tropes I hate- like a miscommunication trope. I honestly can't wait for the community to get their hands on this book.

What happens when a single wish gives you everything you thought you wanted but took away the one person who means the most??

This was so darn good! 13 Going on 30 meets romcom vibes all wrapped up in a magical bow! We follow Gemma who is on the heels of breakup when she makes a wish that turns her world upside down…well more like creates an alternate reality! A reality that wipes her ex from her past - but also wipes her best friend (Dax) from her life as well! Now stuck in this alternate timeline she must track down Dax and earn his trust all by the next full moon so she can return to her old life!

Full of magic, friendship, family, love, loss and swoon worthy romance - Spells for Love was a fantastical read!

Thank you to Random House for the advanced copy!

I give this one 3.5 stars...

The concept was all about a Sliding Doors situation, and I feel like I have read quite a few of those in the last year or two. Still, I enjoyed the characters and plot, and the relationships were fantastic, There was definitely some spice!

I will definitely read another book by Kate Robb if it has a bit more original concept.

I absolutely adored this book! Apparently magical realism is the perfect addition to a friends to lovers storyline! I smiled so many times while reading and felt so invested in the love story and subplots of the book. This was the ultimate cozy fall read!

Thanks to NetGalley and Random House for the ARC of this adorable book!

Review posted to GoodReads 9/27/23

Gemma thought Stuart was the one. But, when she gets dumped instead of engaged her world is shattered. How does she cope? She gets plastered with her sister, hunky best friend Dax, and her eccentric aunt.

To make things a little easier for Gemma, they decide to use a spell book found at her aunt's shop to perform a love cleanse. If they forever erase the romance from Gemma's life, won't things get easier?

What they find is that the spell works, only Gemma knows what happened, and she's on a wild ride of trying out this new form of life, versus the heartbroken one.

Now, Gemma has to reverse the spell. Convincing her family to help won't be that big of a deal, but getting her now acquaintance to help, proves to be harder than she thought.

A little magical realism never hurt anyone! I thought the characters were well-rounded and the story cute. An easy breezy read that will have you rooting. for Gemma by the end.

Thank you to NetGalley and Random House for the ARC!
This story was super cute, Gemma ends up doing a spell to try and forget her now ex-boyfriend and it ends up making her best friend forget who she is, and she only has a month to get him to help her reverse the spell but ends up starting to fall for him along the way. I kind of liked that Gemma had to basically start from the beginning with Dax and saw a different side of him because of that. The whole idea around the storyline was cute and used magic realism in a unique way. I didn't find myself connecting with the characters as much as I wanted to, but I honestly think that was just a personal thing for me. Otherwise it was an easy read and good story!

I'm a huge witch-romance reader so I expected to love this book. I unfortunately did not enjoy this. I sped through most of it, trying to get to the end faster because I did not enjoy the characters. Usually the friends-to trope always hits for me but the chemistry between these two characters was non-existent for me. He was strangely cold to her, even after they regained a friendship in the other universe and I was constantly confused why she fell for him. I would not recommend.

After Gemma’s boyfriend of four years break up with her, she’s heartbroken. Her aunt, her sister and her best friend Dax, decide to preform a spell to erase her ex from her life. But what changes in her life when that happens?

My Thoughts:
I’m a sucker for friends to lovers romances, but then add in magical realism and it’s like my own personal calling card.

This book is funny and sweet and I just adored it so much.

Read if You Like:
🌙 Friends to lovers
🌙 Sliding Door books
🌙 Magical Realism
🌙 Having a spider roommate
🌙 Humor in books

This book was the cutest fall time read for me!! I finished this one quickly and the writing was done fantastically. Gemma and Dax are the best of friends. Like the best friends that can read your mind, always there as your everyday support system, and believes in you more than you do yourself. Gemma is fresh out of a four year dead end relationship, Dax is the lovesick best friend ready to pick up the pieces. One innocent spell gives Gemma a peak at an alternate reality of what a different path could look like for her and her best friend. Hard choices will have to be made for everyone's true happiness.

This storyline was perfection, I couldn't have asked for more in this one. The plot was so unique and pulled me in immediately. I couldn't wait to keep reading and I felt an overwhelming connection with MC's and I adored the supporting characters as well. I am pretty sure Aunt Livi has some secrets she is keeping from everyone. I think we all have wondered what life would have been like had we changed something in the past. Can't wait to read more from the author.

After a bad breakup, Gemma’s sister, Aunt, and best friend-Dax-help her drown her sorrows in tequila. When Aunt Livi suggests they preform a “love cleanse” from a magic book that was recently donated to her used book shop, they are all too drunk to see any reason not to. When Gemma wakes up the next morning, it doesn’t take her long to realize that something is horribly wrong. She’s in a parallel universe where she never met, never dated her ex, Stuart. But in this world she also never became best friends with Dax. Would you cleanse your life of the things that caused you pain if it also meant losing someone that brought you happiness? Would it be worth it?

This book was so incredibly good. It drops you almost immediately into the thick of the plot, so I was hooked from the first chapter. It’s fast paced but still full of drama and humor and plenty of steamy tension between the MCs.

If you like friends to lovers, soul mates, quirky Aunts, and a little bit of magic, you will love this book.

Thank you so much to Netgalley and Random House Publishing Group for gifting me an ARC of this book! My review is voluntary and my honest opinion

I will be posting a review of this book on my bookstagram sometime between Oct. 13-20th

I would say this is witchy/spell adjacent and not really fitting for the fall/halloween vibe which is what I was hoping for from the title. Overall it was a cute read, but nothing majorly notable that I loved or didn’t love. There were also parts that didn’t make sense in a practical way that were hard to overlook.

A light, cute rom com with a twist of magical realism that’s great for kicking off your stack of fall reads.

Overall, I enjoyed this book! I love a friends to lovers trope, and this one did not disappoint; however, I did wish that the beginning of the book spent more time establishing their friendship/history before we see their relationship blossom in the parallel universe. I think it would have made for a stronger story if we could have seen (instead of being told) how strong their friendship was.

Thank you to NetGalley and Random House Publishing Group for providing a copy of this arc in exchange for an honest review.

You think you have your life all figured out. If only I hadn't wasted time with him. If only I could take that time back. Well, maybe it would be different, but then again who knows? Well, I know now that I read this book. I love this book! I love the idea of this book. I love the characters. I love the execution of the story. It's not the usual result you get with one of these what if books. I love the relationship between the aunt and the nieces. I love the sisters working to get to a place of empowerment. This book surpassed all my expectations. I thoroughly recommend this!


I received an e-arc from NetGalley and Random House Publishing Group in exchange for an unbiased review.