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A review by reader_fictions
Don't Hex with Texas by Shanna Swendson
4.0
3.5 stars
Rereading books I was obsessed with 10 years ago has been interesting. Some things I remember so strongly, but there are large things I just blocked out, like the fact that the publisher dropped the series at a very unacceptable point. Don’t Hex with Texas is very much not an ending to the story, and it speaks to how obsessed with it I was that I wasn’t left with feelings of massive loathing, though I do remember being really frustrated when book 5 didn’t come out a year later.
I need some more synonyms for fun and charming to describe this series, but it’s honestly just so fucking cozy and cute. I know that a lot of people aren’t into that, but it’s so rare to find a fantasy with intricate and clever world building that isn’t made of doom and gloom. There are so few books like the Enchanted, Inc. series, and, though it’s not perfect, it just makes me really fucking happy.
However, these books are torturously slow in the romance department. My ship is just so frustrating in the worst/best way. It’s so damn true to who Katie and Owen are, which is really shy and awkward and bad at romance and feelings in general. They’re also just so nice they keep trying to spare the other. I want to shake them and then lock them in a room together and not let them out until they sex each other up a bunch. That’s normal, right?
TBH I didn’t remember the plot of this particular book at all, and I was not excited about the return to Texas because Katie left Owen (hdu), and also just why. But Katie’s family is delightful, particularly her kooky badass of a grandma. Also, it’s really nice that Owen and Katie’s reunion isn’t melodrama-tastic. It’s very them basically. I cannot leave this ship because part of what makes it frustrating is what makes it so good. Curse it.
I’m excited to get into the books that I didn’t read before, mostly because I was already book blogging by the time Swendson published them and I didn’t have the time. NOW I MAKE THE TIME.
Rereading books I was obsessed with 10 years ago has been interesting. Some things I remember so strongly, but there are large things I just blocked out, like the fact that the publisher dropped the series at a very unacceptable point. Don’t Hex with Texas is very much not an ending to the story, and it speaks to how obsessed with it I was that I wasn’t left with feelings of massive loathing, though I do remember being really frustrated when book 5 didn’t come out a year later.
I need some more synonyms for fun and charming to describe this series, but it’s honestly just so fucking cozy and cute. I know that a lot of people aren’t into that, but it’s so rare to find a fantasy with intricate and clever world building that isn’t made of doom and gloom. There are so few books like the Enchanted, Inc. series, and, though it’s not perfect, it just makes me really fucking happy.
However, these books are torturously slow in the romance department. My ship is just so frustrating in the worst/best way. It’s so damn true to who Katie and Owen are, which is really shy and awkward and bad at romance and feelings in general. They’re also just so nice they keep trying to spare the other. I want to shake them and then lock them in a room together and not let them out until they sex each other up a bunch. That’s normal, right?
TBH I didn’t remember the plot of this particular book at all, and I was not excited about the return to Texas because Katie left Owen (hdu), and also just why. But Katie’s family is delightful, particularly her kooky badass of a grandma. Also, it’s really nice that Owen and Katie’s reunion isn’t melodrama-tastic. It’s very them basically. I cannot leave this ship because part of what makes it frustrating is what makes it so good. Curse it.
I’m excited to get into the books that I didn’t read before, mostly because I was already book blogging by the time Swendson published them and I didn’t have the time. NOW I MAKE THE TIME.