I was super excited to read this one as I enjoyed the Hex Ex, which has a similar vibe to Hex Appeal.

Despite finding it challenging to get into at first, I enjoyed the story and would like to spend more time with the characters. Essie decides to keep Josh at broomstick’s length but when Josh’s very pregnant step sister moves to live with him and hires Blessing as her midwife, two families get a little closer. It was nice enough to start off with but nothing really happens and I am left wondering where the romance is.

She lives with various witches of various ages, one of whom is still a bit salty about having been burned at the stake in 1635, one who keeps accidentally casting fertility spells, and one who knits things that create the future. This isn't shocking at all and is in fact, easily guessed within about 50 pages of the book) and they go back to present time.

But then her new landlord, Josh, arrives from America, and he discovers that they haven’t paid the rent since the 1700s.Biography: Kate Johnson was born in the 1980s in Yorkshire and now lives in Essex, where she belongs to a small pride of cats.

An absolute must-read if you love Erin Sterling’s The Ex Hex and Lana Harper’s Payback’s a Witch!Other witches were a nice touch and even though the magical world was chaotic it had its charm and it was a perfect match for Essie’s temperament. Tries to be romantic and maybe smutty, but also tries to be some kind of adventure, stop-the-end-of-the-world dark story and it just. The things that happened in the house were bonkers at times, and I lost count of how often I just laughed out loud.