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A Witch's Guide to Fake Dating a Demon by Sarah Hawley
9 reviews
amy_in_the_city's review
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Graphic: Toxic relationship, Gaslighting, Animal death, Sexual content, and Emotional abuse
Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Fire/Fire injury, and Alcohol
Minor: Blood
amberinpieces's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.75
Graphic: Sexual content and Toxic relationship
Moderate: Bullying, Animal death, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, and Cursing
Minor: Alcohol, Fire/Fire injury, and Grief
midnacine's review
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
Graphic: Emotional abuse and Sexual content
Moderate: Gaslighting, Child abuse, Violence, and Classism
Minor: Death of parent, Injury/Injury detail, and Fire/Fire injury
emmacartlidge's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Graphic: Sexual content, Toxic relationship, and Gaslighting
Moderate: Alcohol
Minor: Injury/Injury detail
btwnprintedpgs's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.0
Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Sexual content, Alcohol, Fire/Fire injury, Animal death, Gore, and Emotional abuse
Minor: Drug use, Pregnancy, and Death
wilybooklover's review against another edition
2.0
Both of the main characters felt quite two-dimensional and lacking in depth. Mariel even reminded me of a teenager at times. The secondary characters were even more shallow and felt like caricatures or cardboard cut-outs. I found myself unable to become immersed in the story because it just felt noticeably fake, especially with respect to the dialogue. The humour was more cringe and juvenile than actually funny and the third-act breakup was incredibly unnecessary given the conflict and drama already happening in the last third of the book. There were also a lot of editing mistakes (like, several per chapter) — things like missing punctuation, words smashed together, and uncapitalised names/places. I expect better editing from a traditionally published book. [This is for the UK digital version.]
Graphic: Gaslighting, Bullying, Emotional abuse, Sexual content, and Toxic relationship
Moderate: Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Abandonment, Animal death, Death, and Violence
Minor: Blood, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Cancer, and Classism
fromjuliereads's review
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.5
Moderate: Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, Bullying, Cursing, Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail, and Sexual content
Minor: Abandonment
indieandajean's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.5
Mariel Spark is a witch who can't control her magic and despite a prophecy saying that she is the strongest witch in generations, no one can take her plant magic seriously. Least of all her family who bows to her mother's insistence to cut her down every-time she tries to stand tall. Thankfully her supportive friends, and one accidentally summoned supremely attractive demon are all it takes to help her find herself and stand tall. This book is full of magical shenanigans, well written characters, fun trope-y romance, and spice.
I knew when I was reading this that it had to be a series set up, the supporting cast of characters is just too good and I can't wait to see each and every one of them have their own hilarious and sweet love story. It was easy to fall in love with Mariel, Oz, Calladia and Themmie as well as with some of the other minor characters around town and I'm looking forward to more of them in the future.
Also as a side note: the magic system was interesting, well written, and made sense throughout, something I usually can't say for most paranormal romances I read, and something I was very excited to see here.
A couple minor complaints:
Mariel's mom was entirely too much. I know that was the point, but for the turnaround in the end to make sense, she needed to be a little less oblivious to how her narcissism effects others.
There were a few plot hooks that came up that were underused, like "problem appears, problem disappears" issues. These were mostly in the 3rd act, and I know they were there to raise the ante, but they weren't there long enough to have the punch that "do this or everything you love dies" should have for both Mariel and Oz.
Overall though I really enjoyed this book and found it an enjoyable read. Can't wait to see what Sarah Hawley writes next!
Moderate: Emotional abuse
Minor: Injury/Injury detail, Fire/Fire injury, Violence, Alcohol, and Animal death
headinthepages's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
3.5
Moderate: Emotional abuse, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, Alcohol, Abandonment, Animal death, Blood, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Bullying, Cancer, Death, Drug use, and Sexual content