Olive assigns a project to her students to get them to step out of their comfort zones. They need to create a list of 10 things out side their comfort zone and complete the items on the list. Olive who literally never steps outside her own comfort zone feels she should do the project along with them.
Bax her guardian angel friend and roommate is on his last wings as guardian due to a few mishaps, and his new assignment is going to test his limits. Is this what he really wants to do? Or can he step away from his family's expectations and do what he really wants as an extremely talented artist.
Bax decides to help Olive with her list, but will it bring them closer together, or will it cost them their friendship? And what is more important, stepping outside your comfort zone, or the person/people you do it with?
I really enjoyed this third book in the supernatural singles collection. It can be read as a standalone. Heads up, it's spicy! 🌶️
4.5 stars

Thank you to Netgally, the publishers, and April Asher

When I requested this book I was unaware that it was apart of a series, one that requires you to read the previous books for this one to make sense. I am unable to read all the previous books along with this one before the publish date. Therefore, I will rate this a fair 3/5 stars and will adjust the rating and review when I am able to read all the books in the series along with this one.

The curvy, bookish, witch, Olive, might be one of my favorite main characters from a romance novel in a long, long time. Thanks you April Asher for writing such a spunky independent character.

Not Your Crush’s Cauldron is book 3 of the Supernatural Singles series, but can definitely be read as a stand alone or out of order (like I’m doing..heh).

I loved this book and the plus size representation in it! I am not usually a paranormal genre reader, but I did enjoy this one! I will look for other books by this author! I will definitely recommend this book.

This was an absolute delight to read!
The world that has been so beautifully built through this series continues perfectly here with Olive and Bax's story.
Their journey is all about stepping out of comfort zones and pushing boundaries, and it had me hooked from the beginning, with some literal laugh out loud moments, too!
I might would have liked a little more drama/deeper conflict in this one, but still a very entertaining read!

When I started this series, I was always wanting to know more about Olive and Baxter and I finally got their story!

Olive is the “ scholarly triplet” of the Maxwell Sisters and although she was more quiet in the other books, she finally got her time to shine. I always had gotten the vibe that her and Baxter “ Bax” had a thing for each other but with him never really being at the group gatherings, you couldn’t tell 100%. But with Olive moving in with Bax, you knew sparks were gonna fly and they did.

I loved the idea of Olive’s Docket Do List and how it not only got her out of her comfort zone but also brought Bax into the fold. As her *duh duh duh* guardian angel and one of the many rules is not to fall in love with your assignment. 😏


So many swoon worthy moments, from the scene in Central Park to the Tattooing Convention. Olive and Bax, or should I say Professor and Wingman, became my favorite couple in the series so far.

I was happy that both Bax and Olive were able to figure out what they really wanted, which for Bax was buying the tatto shop and Olive evolving the SupeEx program into a mentorship program. Definitely suits them both and will make them happier in the end.

I loved the bond the sisters and Harper have supporting each other in their endeavors and being there for each other. The comedic moments in the book ( loved the speed dating scene) made me laugh and honestly I wanna see a book where Harper is the main female character. I hope it happens!

The Maxwell Sisters have been so fun to follow throughout this series and Olive was no different. I could relate to Olive and loved the idea of her doing activities out of her comfort zone. She and Bax were absolutely adorable and they made me giggle out loud with their banter. I was excited to see the continuation of Rose's and Violet's individual stories. The sisters and the friends represent such a great support system and it is so great to read throughout! Thank you to NetGalley and St. Martin's Press for an advanced copy! All thoughts and opinions are my own!

Not Your Crush’s Cauldron by April Asher released last week and I’m so happy this cute, steamy, witchy romcom is out in the world! This one checked all the boxes for me and I highly recommend any romance readers out there get this on their tbr!

I’ve adored all 3 books in this series and I really can’t decide on a favorite witch or favorite couple after finishing the last book. They’re all great and the FMC in each new book became my instant #bookbestie every time. Really wish I could find an IRL trio of witchy sisters to hang out with!

I was most unsure about if I’d like sweet, steadfast Olive’s story in the final book but I can now say I loved it! There was something so relatable about Olive’s mission to step outside her comfort zone and experience new things. I really like that we also got to be inside Bax’s brain. I love a dual POV in a romance!

I’m sad to see the Supernatural Singles series come to an end (UNLESS a certain best friend is also getting their own story/novella/anything?!) and I’ll be looking forward to what April writes next as April Asher!

3.5. I didn't enjoy this as much as the first book in the series--somehow I missed the second one--but it's a cute and fluffy (and steamy) read. There's some elements of insta-love, but otherwise Bax and Olive's relationship develops well; I enjoyed how they played off of one another and were similarly vulnerable with one another. There's more surface-level development in the rest of the characters, plot, and setting than I thought there would be, but that lends itself to being a fun and quick read.

Another solid entry in this series from April Asher. I love how funny and entertaining these books are and that I don't really have to do a lot of thinking while reading. They do delve deeper into the relationships between people and their pasts, but there's never really super high stakes.

One of my biggest gripes about this book was the title. I know they're following the format from Not The Witch You Wed but it makes zero sense in context of the story or otherwise.

April delivered on the last of the supernatural singles series! Olive's story was the perfect ending to a magically magnificent trilogy!
I love all of the sisters and watching them find their happily ever after. Olive and Bax are the perfect mixture of push and pull. Longing and hoping, the pacing was spot on, and I enjoyed every moment!

Olive! Finally! The third book in this series, and another fun story about these savvy witchy Maxwell sisters. It was a light, easy read.

Olive and Bax are friends who end up turning into something more. Bax ends up being Olive’s guardian angel. Safe, rule-writing Olive should be an easy watch. Olive challenges her students to push out of their comfort zones, and decides to lead by example. Bax comes along for the ride and ends up out of his comfort zone as well. I’m glad to see Olive get her happily ever after.

Thank you April Asher, NetGalley and St. Martin’s Press for the ARC.

This was so fun and it was great to see the two characters who we haven't seen a ton of in the previous books. I love a good "oops, my crush is now my roommate" moment but when Bax is assigned to Olive as her guardian angel, it brought that to a whole new level. Asher got their whole opposites attract dynamic down perfectly where the seem so different on paper, but their personalities just mesh so well that is is obvious they belong together. I loved how Olive was really the catalyst for a lot of the romantic growth between them and it really showed her coming out of her shell in many ways. I loved learning more about this world and the guardian angel system was so interesting to me. We get to see a good amount of the other characters as well, which is always fun.

Thanks to NetGalley and St Martin's Press for the ARC. Publication date was February 13. 2024

If you read the other books in this series, you’ve been eagerly awaiting the payoff in the Olive and Bax arena. Wait no longer! This is payoff and then some!

Bax is a reluctant guardian angel. He’s kind of terrible at his job, but some mix of obligation to his family and determination not to give up keeps him there. After a series of fails, he gets a rather unfortunate assignment right after Olive moves in. Olive got the offer at the end of the previous book as a way out of sleeping in her faculty office because of her terrible roommate. Not sure I’d say Bax had the best of intentions in mind, but these two end up roomies at the start of this book. After much tiptoeing around things, this book finally sees the combustible chemistry that is Bax & Olive.

So, probably not super great to date your roommate, but they keep it on the low low and also manage to work together accomplishing Olive’s to-do list that pushes her outside her comfort zone. As usual, the side characters are still amazing, and we get to see the culmination of the magical core story. We also, thankfully, get way less misunderstanding time and way more make out time with these two than I anticipated. After being conditioned to expect the worst in paranormal romance, this was like a breath of fresh air. Love these stories and can’t wait to continue!

Not Your Crush’s Cauldron is the third installment of Asher’s adorable series Supernatural Singles. As with the first two, it follows the life and non-existent love life of the third triplet sister in a witch family. It’s funny, sexy and imaginatively creative. It’s an easy, enjoyable read if you are looking for something soft and feel-good.

Olive Maxwell is a witch who is a serious professor. She is always embarrassed by her two sisters’ antics. Especially when it comes to their love lives. Olive has not time for a love life. She is too busy with work and her students to look for a partner. Plus, she feels as if compared to her two beautiful sisters, she can’t compare anyway. But with that said, she has recently moved into an apartment (as roommates, of course) with the most handsome, sexy man she has ever seen, Bax Donovan who works as a guardian angel.

Of course, she realizes he could never see her as anything other than the person he lives with as Olive sees her life as very routine oriented even to the clothes she wears on certain days. But that begins to change when she assigns a project to her students having them make a list of items they need to do which would be totally out of their comfort zone. Then do them and write a paper on what happened. But after overhearing two of co-workers discussing her, she decides she too will attempt the assignment as well. Her list is honest, uncomfortable and awkward. Some items even terrifying. But she decides to close her eyes and take the proverbial plunge.

In the meantime, Bax, who finds Olive to be an absolute angle and beautiful gets his next assignment. It is to watch and protect Olive. At first Bax thinks, what a piece of cake! Olive follows the rules and always stays out of trouble. Until he realizes what she is planning on doing and she could get herself into a great deal of trouble.

So now he must somehow watch her without her knowing what he is doing. But what ends up happening is the more they are together, the more he discovers how terrific and wonderful she is. But this cannot happen! He is her protector not her boyfriend. He begins to assist her on her crazy schemes and enjoys what is on her list. But the challenge soon becomes very difficult as he begins to fall in love, an absolute rule breaker in his line of work. He also starts to learn more about himself and whether this job is truly what makes him happy. All because of Olive!

And then unfortunately Olive finds out and an angry witch is someone who does not play!

Not Your Crush’s Cauldron is laugh out loud hysterical, with a great story in which someone who tries to go beyond their comfort zone to try new things without feeling embarrassed or afraid and starts to learn many life lessons. It’s about finding out things you never imagined not only about yourself, but about others. And having a whole new world open up in front of your eyes. It’s just a great romp!

Thank you #NetGalley #St.Martin’s/Griffin #AprilAsher #NotYourCrush’sCauldren for the advanced copy.

Olive Maxwell, the third of the Maxwell sisters, sees her sisters finding their own paths as well as in committed relationships. To break out of her own rut, she begins creating a list of activities that will force her out of her comfort zone. When she does, it alarms the Guardian Angel service to assign an angel to protect her. Unfortunately she is assigned her brand-new roomie, the sexy Bax, as protector. Guardian Angel service is clandestine, no one knows who they are and definitely there can not be any relationship with them. Once the story got going, I really enjoyed it. At first, I was a tad confused. Admittedly if I had read the first two books in the series that would not have been any issue.

This is the third and last in a series about the magical Maxwell triplets, Violet, Rose, and Olive, who live in a world where vampires, werewolves, angels, demons, and witches live side-by-side with humans. The first book was about Violet, the second about Rose, this finishing up with Olive. I wanted to read this one because Olive, the quiet sister who's a teacher, was my favorite. She's sharing an apartment with Baxter Donovan, a bad-boy guardian angel who's been one of her friends for years. When Olive decides to participate with her students in a "get out of your comfort zone" project, her list includes some far out goals, including to "join the circus" and "have a one-night stand." But there's something so dangerous in her future that she gets assigned a Guardian Angel--quick, guess who! And this is going to be a problem because "Bax" is falling in love with Olive--and Olive with him--and Bax's future rests on protecting her properly.

I think this was my favorite of the three because of Olive, but Bax is a bit over the top for me, and I don't know why he just doesn't tell his dad to go shove it. As others have observed, these folks are supposed to be in their thirties, with responsible jobs. Most of them act more like lovesick teens or college students.

Not Your Crush's Cauldron by April Asher follows Professor Olive Maxwell who has moved in with her bestie, Bax, because she was in a pretty sketchy roommate situation and her friends/family put their foot down that she was not to stay there. She's also trying to get a pretty big grant for this project promoting inter-species relationships. This project winds up pushing her outside of her comfort zone and Bax finds his friendship with Olive being tested as he's given a new work task as a guardian angel.

Things I liked about this book: I love books with a list of things to do/accomplish. I like the idea of pushing a character out of their comfort zone and I enjoyed the way that was done in this book. I liked the friendships and sister relationships in this book and in the series as a whole.

But, here's the thing. As a lover of friends to lovers romances, I really feel like I should have connected to this romance more. And sometimes there were snippets of the dynamic that I wanted, but other times I just sort of wanted to scream. The problem is that there is an element of deception here and I struggle with deception at the best of times, but it's really difficult for me to reckon with when it's taking place with a friends to lovers romance and it specifically impacts the other character. So, all in all, although this book had a lot of great personal development and the relationships between the friends was great, I wound up not loving it as much as I wanted to. Also, though, why does Bax, an actual angel, call Olive angel as his term of endearment? That made no sense to me and I really hated it.

Anyway, if you've liked the other books in the series, I would still recommend this one, but if you haven't, definitely don't jump in here.

Once again, a cute witchy rom com following a family of witches trying to weasel their way out of love but also wanting it desperately. So fun and the character development was wonderful!

I love the Maxwell sister's books. I love the world that is built among the three of them. It is unique to see a magical community living in tandem with normies in NYC of all places. The spice in these books is also A+. It's tasteful and it is just there for entertainment. It's not all spice and no plot, its lots of plot with spice for fun. I will say that I liked this book the least out of the three. I just didn't connect with Olive or Bax the way I did the other Maxwells. Which was pretty disappointing to me because I thought, a brainiac book loving fat female main character? Instalove? No in reality I found Olive just a little buttoned up. Which I suppose is the whole point of the book because it's all about stepping out of your comfort zone. I just feel like there wasn't really any conflict in this book. There are small hiccups and the usual miscommunication trope, but nothing high stakes. Which will absolutely thrill cozy fantasy readers. For sure if you're a cozy fantasy reader, you will absolutely love this one. All in all this one was good, but I'm not sure i'll want to reread it the way I do with the other Maxwell books.