Kiss a Spell by Celestine Martin

Source: NetGalley, thank you so much to the publisher – And I purchased a copy! Thanks me!
TL;DR: A bit heavy on purple prose, but a fun story with a great redemption for Ursula

Plot: Ursula is attempting to take back her life while Xavier breaks an enchantment. It was simple, and romance heavy.
Characters: Ursula shone much brighter than Xavier but I enjoyed them both.
Setting: The town here is absolutely lovely and I felt it was really captured.
Magic: This one did feel a little light on the magic compared to the last one but it still had that sparkle and cozy feeling that Witchful Thinking had.

Thoughts:

Kiss and Spell does what most books can’t do for me, and that’s redeem a horrible character from a previous book. This follows Ursula, or Sula, who in Witchful Thinking was the absolute worst bridezilla I’d read in a long, long time. She is on the path to redeem and refresh her life after her wedding crashed and burned and she alienated her friends. Meanwhile, Xavier is a Fae prince who was placed under enchantment by the Fae Queen and he’s attempting to break that by finding his perfect kiss.

As I mentioned this did a fantastic job redeeming Ursula to me. I think the biggest win for that is that she acknowledges fast and early and establishes to the reader that she knows she messed up and she’s working to fix it. She has been humbled and she frequently reminds herself of that and what she’s doing to fix it, without wallowing. I love that and her Boss Witch energy she brough.

Xavier is an absolute cinnamon roll and while I loved him, he was a shadow to Ursula’s personality. The two made for a fun pairing! The biggest complaint I have on the story is simply that it was too heavy on the purple prose. We couldn’t simply ‘smile’ it had to be a few lines on the beauty of the smile and comparing it to this, that or the other. While this worked occasionally I did end up skimming those descriptions after awhile.

The book was a bit long, but again I could have felt that due to the prose. Otherwise I had a lot of fun with this. I’ll keep it on my shelves and I enjoyed seeing Ursula redeem herself and find her happy ending. If you enjoyed Witchful Thinking this is a really great follow-up and I’d definitely recommend it!