Olivia Ayala has mastered the art of blending the perfect ingredients to create magical confections in her small-town bakery in Addersfield, Rhode Island—a sanctuary for witches since 1697. And she doesn't let the fact that she has cerebral palsy slow her down! She's a force to be reckoned with!

Draven James: charming, annoyingly handsome, and mysteriously capable of finding a town hidden from the outside world. His arrival stirs the air and Olivia's heart, igniting a spark she hadn't realized was missing.

A few things about this.
The first and most important is that the narrator has a very particular style, giving certain sentences and dialogues a weird tone, a very "yass gurl slay" tone. It made dislike some characters, specially Parker.
Second, i found the main character a bit unlikable. I understand that background story is important, but it made her actions and internal monologue annoying.
Third, the instalove was a lot. Specially for two people that claim to be so 'garded '
Finally, the smut. It felt out of context, as if it was written by someone and the rest of the story by a different person.

Olivia and her son lives in a magical town of witches. She has a bakery there and had sworn of love until a beautiful man comes into town. Draven is in town to find out the town's secret. His mother was a witch and he hadn't found out until he lost her 6 months earlier. He can't tell people in the town why he's there because he's up to no good. But then he meets Olivia and now he is confused.

Many thanks to Net Galley and Dreamscape Media for an audio ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review.

Introducing your new fav witch; Olivia. A single mom and Latin witch who doesn’t let her Cerebral Palsy slow her down; she’s known for whipping up delicious treats at her bakery in her small town that’s known for magic. But when Draven, a handsome stranger enters town Olivia starts to question what his real reasons for entering town really are?

Hands down this is going to be a fall favourite. I absolutely loved the bad assery that is Olivia’s character. I loved all of the representation and not once did I feel like the author was trying to do too much. There was soooo much female empowerment and I just wanted to cue up Shania Twain (let’s go girls). That being said I also loved Draven’s character and really rooted for the two together. While they obviously had secrets between each other there was still so much room for open communication and for once the two main characters actually had that!! No frustrating miscommunication here!

This one got Spicy and quite vulgar/ descriptive at times but I’m so glad that it didn’t take away from the story.

Loved the narrator and I could just feel the magic in the air (see what I did there ) while listening!

Thanks to netgalley for my advanced listening copy! Put this one on your fall TBR!

3.75

The audio is great. I really enjoyed the narrator. The story was cute, spice was excellent. I just had trouble with the insta love.
She went from not trusting him to jumping into bed with him in the blink of eye. Then he's saying he loves everything about her, but they are still essentially strangers 🤷‍♀️

Thank you to netgalley for the alc in exchange for an honest review.

This is such a sweet Halloween/paranormal romance about Olivia, a witch in Addersfield, RI. Olivia is a baker, a mom, a best friend and a person living with cerebral palsy. I loved Olivia, she was someone I could imagine being best friends with and Addersfield is where I want to go on a bookish vacation this fall. Draven is the love interest in this novel and he comes to town under mysterious circumstances and moves in across the street from Olivia. He is a grumpy man who offsets Olivia's bright and sunshine mood. I definitely think you should add this to your TBR list this fall.

Thank you Dreamscape media and Netgalley for the ALC.

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6780142194

DNF at 15% - cringey, not sure if the narration was apart of the problem but the MMC made me want to throw up with his annoying demeanor.