Magic-less witch Violet Maxwell wants nothing to do with alpha wolf shifter Lincoln Thorne—the man who broke her fragile, teenage heart. But when the two of them are forced by arcane Supernatural Laws to find mates, Violet and Lincoln agree to fake-date their way to a fake-mating in order to conjure themselves some time.
The joke’s on them. When old feelings make a reappearance—along with Violet’s magic—they both realize there’s nothing fake about their feelings. But there are old secrets and looming threats that could snatch away their happily ever after, again. One thing’s for sure: magic doesn’t make dating and love any easier.
I love a good fake-dating between enemies, so I was really excited to hop into this book and see the banter turn into love.
Except this book didn’t really give me the banter I wished for.
To be fair, there was a bit of banter in this story. But this was definitely more of a one-sided-feelings story than it was an enemies-to-lovers kind of story, which wasn’t exactly what I signed up for.
One thing I really liked about this story was how the author works with a world full of supernaturals in New York City. Rather than having a story where witches and werewolves are secret, April Asher instead creates a version of NYC where the supernaturals live in plain sight of humans. I always love books that take basic concepts like this and give them a little twist, so I enjoyed seeing this aspect in Not The Witch You Wed.
However, I didn’t like this book. It was a bit boring, with nothing really interesting happening, and most of the book was obvious to anyone who has read a story like this before. A few things seemed like they were only there for plot convenience, not really making sense, such as the main conflict dividing these two characters from true love.
I also was very surprised to find that this book wasn’t that spicy. For a book that jumpscared me on page 11 with the word “vibrator” and whose writing style and humor reminded me of The Brown Sisters trilogy by Talia Hibbert, the sex scene was just kinda “meh”.
I am so sorry for the people out there who think “werewolf” is a kind of spice all by itself, but it isn’t.
All in all, I was disappointed in this book. And, most unfortunately of all, I have an ARC copy of the sequel.
I hope I like Violet’s sister better than I like Violet.
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