Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⬜
Title: The Wedding Witch (The Ex Hex #3)
Author: Erin Sterling
Genre: Romance / Paranormal
Setting: Georgia, USA / England
Month Read: September 2024
Book Type: E-Arc
Publication: October 8, 2024
Publisher: Avon Publishing / Harper Voyager
Pages: 352 (Kindle), 288 Paperback
*Thank you to Netgalley and Avon & Harper Voyager for my advanced E-copy. It has in no way influenced this review. All thoughts and opinions are my own.
TRIGGER WARNING-
Sex / Time Travel / Ghosts / Death /
No Spoiler Summary:
Bowen Penhallow has always been a loner, studying dark and ancient magic on a mountaintop in Wales. He prefers it that way, but when his friend Declan—who happens to be a ghost—asks him to attend a Yuletide wedding at a grand estate deep in the Welsh countryside, Bowen reluctantly agrees.
Tamsyn Bligh is not a witch, but she makes her living off of them. As a procurer and seller of magical items, Tamsyn’s business is not always above board, but she’s been trying to fix that (mostly.) Bowen is an occasional customer—as well as the star of several of Tamsyn’s dirtiest dreams—but she’s been around enough witches to know that, as a human, getting involved with one is not the smartest idea. She’s finagled an invite to the Witchy Wedding of the Century in the hopes of finally making a score big enough to retire. Just one priceless magical artifact from Tywyll House would set her up for life.
But Tamsyn isn’t the only one sneaking about in Tywyll House, and the mix of a very strong spell combined with a wedding mishap transports Bowen and Tamsyn into Tywyll House’s past, to the Yuletide Celebration of 1957. As Bowen and Tamsyn work together to get back to the present, they must also face off with the origins of Tywyll House’s haunting, the suspicions of their fellow witches…oh, and the fact that somewhere between the mistletoe and the bonfire, they might be falling in love.
Review:
The Wedding Witch by Erin Sterling was the third book in The Ex Hex series, and while the longest wait- was my least favorite.
I've said it 1,000 times but I don't like 🕰 time travel plots, and this book had super likable leads, but felt very awkward- no hurdles to come together, no pining-- they just sort of got there right away and it did not compare to the waiting with baited breath of the sister novels to get to the good parts.
Overall, super fun / super cute / super FAST 🚀 read which I enjoyed, and I highly recommend reading the entire series since you can't go wrong.
The side characters were very fun, as they always are in Erin's books, and Sir Purrcival 🐈 was back which is a huge win for the talking cat community girls. While the holiday in this is Yule 🎄, and not Halloween 👻, I didn't feel weird reading this in September so picking this up anytime between publication 10/08/24 and through New Year's would be a fun ride.
This book is for you if you like:
🛌 Only One Bed
⏳🧳 Time Travel
⛄ Holiday Romance
😠 Grumpy / Sunshine 🥰
💫 Boss / Employee
Recommendation:
The Ex Hex by Erin Sterling
The Kiss Curse by Erin Sterling
The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches by Sangu Mandanna
Payback's A Witch by Lana Harper
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