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Illustrated cover, teal green background with autumn leaves scattered about and titles in white at the top. On the left is a white couple, a woman on the far left and a man toward the middle. The woman has long curly/wavy reddish brown hair and is wearing a mustard coloured cardigan, a white top and a green skirt with little pale pink and blue flowers on it. The guy is wearing a blue collared sweater and brown pants, he is fair-haired and has stubble and a demon's red tail is coming out of his pants and is wrapping around the front of the cover and across the woman's skirt
October 6, 2025

REVIEW: Dealing with a Desperate Demon by Charlotte Stein

KaetrinA- Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended ReadsNetGalley / PNR / SFF / witch2 Comments

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Content Notes: emotional and physical abuse of a child by a parent Dear Charlotte Stein,  I loved How to Help a Hungry Werewolf last year and guessed that bookshop owner, Nancy, would be the next heroine of the series. It was clear in the first book that Nancy had magical ... more >

September 2, 2025

REVIEW: Cat Dragon by Samantha Birch

JayneBook Reviews / C- Reviewscats / cozy fantasy / dragons / found family / Magic / road trip / witch8 Comments

In the whimsical world of Tangleroot Valley, magic flows like the seasons, and every witch has her cat dragon – except Aloysia Papplewick. She’s far from bonding with her fiery feline familiar, and with her magical farm in chaos, her prattling pumpkin patch meddling in her life and the annual ... more >

June 26, 2024

REVIEW: Foul Days (The Witch’s Compendium of Monsters Book 1) by Genoveva Dimova

JayneBook Reviews / C- ReviewsBulgaria / Fantasy / Magic / monsters / Slavic folklore / witchComments Off on REVIEW: Foul Days (The Witch’s Compendium of Monsters Book 1) by Genoveva Dimova

As a witch in the walled city of Chernograd, Kosara has plenty of practice treating lycanthrope bites, bargaining with kikimoras, and slaying bloodsucking upirs. There’s only one monster she can’t defeat: her ex, the Zmey, known as the Tsar of Monsters. She’s defied him one too many times and now ... more >

January 9, 2024

REVIEW: The Island Cottage by Jane Lovering

JayneB+ Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended ReadsContemporary / First-Person / fish-out-of-water / Magical Realism / Orkney / Scotland / witch5 Comments

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When Brid Harcus is sent to the Orkney Islands, in the far reaches of Scotland, she has high hopes for her trip being short, straightforward and lucrative. Her mother has inherited a cottage from her Great Aunt Jennet which has been unlived in and unloved for decades, and the time ... more >

November 1, 2023

REVIEW: Rough Around the Hedges: an Uncanny Romance Novel by Lish McBride

JayneB Reviews / Book ReviewsContemporary / emotional abuse / fathers and daughters / found family / No Paranormal Left Behind / Paranormal / Seattle / Uncanny Romance / unrequited-love / witchComments Off on REVIEW: Rough Around the Hedges: an Uncanny Romance Novel by Lish McBride

Will Murphy spends his down time doing subversive cross-stitch, crafting saucy baked goods for the romance book club he attends with his Nana, and desperately trying to hide the fact that he’s been in love with Vanessa Woodbridge for, well, ever. For years, he’s been content to wear the best ... more >

September 21, 2023

REVIEW: Rumaysa: A Fairytale by Radiya Hafiza

JayneB Reviews / Book Reviews / C ReviewsCinderella story / fairy tale / fairy tale retelling / Magic / middle grade / Muslim / POC / POC author / Rapunzel / Sleeping Beauty / witchComments Off on REVIEW: Rumaysa: A Fairytale by Radiya Hafiza

Step into a Once Upon a Time where anything is possible . . . Radiya Hafiza’s enchanting and funny debut weaves together three stories, spinning the classic fairytale to show that anyone can be a hero. ‘Rumaysa, Rumaysa, let down your hijab!’ For as long as she can remember Rumaysa ... more >

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