Thank you to Carly Bloom, Hachette Audio, and NetGalley for allowing me to listen to a free eaudio ARC in exchange for an honest review.

I tried twice to get into this book, and it's not happening. Both times I made it to 25%---the scene with the funeral food nonsense---and I can't take it anymore.

There's no plot! The uncle dude died and Max has come to settle his affairs, and that's it. Otherwise it's just characters dinking around doing nothing important, like eating funeral food and chitchatting about being Southern. There's no tension, no stakes, except Max has to keep his true purpose secret. I believe the plot of the book was supposed to be about Delia accidentally breaking the hex on her family and giving them all powers, but there's no sign of that happening. No inciting incident, which should have happened by now. This book is wasting my time, so I'm done. The characters had potential, I didn't dislike any of them, but again, they're just wandering around accomplishing nothing plot-wise, which doesn't endear.

Zion Jang was fine as the narrator of Max's POV, but I did not care for Laura Knight Keating's narration of Delia's POV. She didn't sound natural; she sounded more like she was in public speaking class and being graded on how clearly she enunciated and how well she projected her voice---she was so much louder than Jang. Switching between the two was almost jarring. Keating sounds more suited to reading instruction manuals aloud or narrating how-to videos, or something like that.

It was like an adult Sabrina the teenage witch but without magic because her entire family was hexed. I enjoyed reading, there was romance, humor and lots of magical moments. Audiobook production was excellent, narrators were engaging and entertaining.