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Harley Merlin and the Secret Coven
by Bella Forrest
Potential I see a lot of potential with this series… was this a slam dunk the first time out for me? Nope but it wasn’t a dud either so that’s a plus side. This is targeted as being a Harry Potter type book for adults and I really wish publishers, and such would stop doing that, saying a book is like another to pull people in. Yes, this book has magic, and evil magic, and a secret society, but it also has new things that Harry Potter didn’t have and guess what it centers around adults. Or they were supposed to be adults. I am not harping on the fact or age of these characters but there was a ton of “did not, did too” in this book which go repetitive.
Harley was a cool main character having grown up with non-blood related family and dealing with some different “powers” she doesn’t know what to do with. I rather enjoyed her first encounter with Wade and how she got frustrated with his non answers… I did get pretty frustrated with her back and forth on the being dense thing. I couldn’t tell at first if it was her powers or she just really wasn’t good at reading human reactions. We never did get an answer on either one. I did however like that she kept striving to be better and didn’t take no for an answer. She wanted to help and figure out what was going on.
There were a ton of side characters in the Rag Team was I a little bit upset that we didn’t get some of their POV yes, but I understand it would’ve made the book a ton longer. There were some inconsistencies that made me want to put down the book sometimes but there was just something about the magic system and the other characters that made me want to keep reading. I will of course read the second book because I’m no invested on finding out what happens. The book just felt off and I can’t put my finger on it, I’m not sure if it was the pacing or the childishness of the characters. Mind you these characters are supposed to be in their twenties so a little bit of melodrama is okay in any book but you can kind of overdue it some. The magic system was cool, world building inside the coven was amazing, outside was normal city
Harley was a cool main character having grown up with non-blood related family and dealing with some different “powers” she doesn’t know what to do with. I rather enjoyed her first encounter with Wade and how she got frustrated with his non answers… I did get pretty frustrated with her back and forth on the being dense thing. I couldn’t tell at first if it was her powers or she just really wasn’t good at reading human reactions. We never did get an answer on either one. I did however like that she kept striving to be better and didn’t take no for an answer. She wanted to help and figure out what was going on.
There were a ton of side characters in the Rag Team was I a little bit upset that we didn’t get some of their POV yes, but I understand it would’ve made the book a ton longer. There were some inconsistencies that made me want to put down the book sometimes but there was just something about the magic system and the other characters that made me want to keep reading. I will of course read the second book because I’m no invested on finding out what happens. The book just felt off and I can’t put my finger on it, I’m not sure if it was the pacing or the childishness of the characters. Mind you these characters are supposed to be in their twenties so a little bit of melodrama is okay in any book but you can kind of overdue it some. The magic system was cool, world building inside the coven was amazing, outside was normal city