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Rebekah, along with her sister and close friends have to prove themselves after events at the end of book one. Rebekah also comes face to face with Nicholas Frost, her tutor and also the immortal she has feelings for.
Yes, I know. I also know that anytime you try to new and improve something in this town, the plague that is Skip Simon descends on you like the locust he is.”
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That said, in all likeliness it'll come out and I'll decide it's too exhausting and I'm no longer interested.) The more I think about it, honestly the more I hate it. When I started writing this review I was rating this 2 stars but honestly looking at that quote makes me so angry I'm lowering it to 1. Needless to say, I will not be continuing on with this series. stars for me. I really liked a lot of things about this book - there’s a bit of Stars Hollow, CT (a la Gilmore Girls) but make it secretly magic with witches. I love a small town setting, and I really liked the very strong friend group/found family vibe in this. Not that I allow loneliness in my life. I swat it down like an obnoxious fly anytime it pops up. Because loneliness is a betrayal of all the women who came before me and I am not going to be the Wilde who lets them down. I’m the current caretaker of this landmark of a house that’s been in my family some three hundred years, since the first Wilde wisely made the long trek away from the Massachusetts Colony and settled down in this part of Missouri where two great rivers meet, the Mississippi and the Missouri. I like the idea of roots that deep and rivers that tangle together. I like this house that towers above me with its uneven floors and oddly shaped rooms. I like where it sits in town, on one end of Main Street like a punctuation mark.
Georgie’s family also has roots in Puritan Massachusetts witch trials but unlike me, she loves getting lost in all that witchcraft nonsense. She pretends she has various supernatural powers to annoy me, but mostly she likes the trappings. What she solemnly calls crystal lore and sage burning. She likes to talk to her cat as if he can understand her and claims his meows are detailed replies that she, naturally, can comprehend perfectly. And she steadfastly claims to believe that Ellowyn, one of our other closest friends, can brew teas that cure colds, repair broken hearts, and curse weak-willed men.Like I said I have no issue with closed door but WHAT IS THIS?!?!?! Do not label your book a rom-com and then throw shit like this in it. I actually just spent 40 minutes trying to find this quote in the audiobook because it needed to be included just to show what an absolute nightmare this book was. Big Little Spells continues the story of Small Town, Big Magic. Sister Emerson and Rebekah, formerly “spell dim” have publicly shown the extent of the magic that they aren’t supposed to have. The ruling coven of witches, the Joywood, are willing to reconsider their prior determination of their magical abilities, only if Emerson and Rebekah are willing to relive one of the scariest experiences of life; high school. Both sisters work alongside their fellow witch friends (creating a coven of their own) as well as a brooding and gorgeous immortal witch, Nicholas Frost. Rebekah fights to keep her dark secrets hidden as well as her feelings for Nicholas, whom she’s felt drawn to all her life. Will the sisters be able to prove their standing as powerful witches? Or will they be deemed “spell dim” once more? You're not allowed to forget for a second that the MC is a feminist. But in the most ra-ra! way imaginable. She's insufferable, and apparently notorious for going on mini feminism rants to her friends on a regular basis. It's entirely surface-level and triggered at the oddest moments, as if a child just learned about something and they're eager to talk about it and see it in everything.
Ellowyn Good, on the other hand, is particularly vicious and vindictive—traits I don’t share, but deeply appreciate. Especially because Georgie is very talented at taking Ellowyn’s usually extreme ideas and softening them. Then making Ellowyn think it was her idea all along. Georgie also always supplies the sweets, which helps, because sugar helps everything. Because the only thing I’ve ever been able to do when it came to Skip Simon, from another old and well-to-do local family here in St. Cyprian like mine, was embarrass him.And honestly, I’m just annoyed. If it’s a series, telegraph that! You don’t have to do the “warning: cliffhanger” thing, but somewhere in the cover design it should indicate it’s a series. And while I’m happy for the next character to have her story, that sort of series structure isn’t my favorite when the first FMC is ending her book in a major, dramatic situation. It kind of feels like they wanted to market both to “cozy romance” fans and “dramatic contemporary paranormal” fans and ended up depriving the first of adequate coziness and the latter of adequate drama. No one has civic pride quite like Emerson Wilde. As a local indie bookstore owner and youngest-ever Chamber of Commerce president, she’d do anything for her hometown of St. Cyprian, Missouri. After all, Midwest is best! She may be descended from a witch who was hanged in 1692 during the Salem Witch Trials, but there’s no sorcery in doing your best for the town you love.
Maybe I should be appalled, but I understand too well the mistakes we make and sins we commit. When we haven’t healed what’s broken within us. When the dark is too tempting.” And I don’t,” I announce brightly to the quiet of the early-morning kitchen of my family’s historic house.
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I’m not sure that the authors love love or even understand love and romance after reading this one. They certainly did not understand the genre that they’ve been placed in. Maybe this is satire?!?
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