Fix-It Witches #1
Author: Ann Aguirre
Narrator: Ava Lucas
Audiobook, Anyplay and Storytel
Danica Waterhouse is a witch. She runs the Fix-It Witches store with her cousin. She’s a technomancer witch, which enables her to fix anything techie. She’s been raised by her grandmother, who is sort of estranged from her mother because Danica’s father is a “mundane”. She’s also very aware of the family curse: if you marry a mundane you lose your powers. So, yeah, she knows her mother is happy with her life but she doesn’t want that for herself.
Titus Winnaker is the owner/baker of Suggar Daddy, which he runs with the help of his younger sister. He has the worse luck when it comes to his love life. He dated women, he dated men, and apparently he seems to be destined to a lonely life because they all leave him. Yup, it’s so bad that, even though he is a hunk of a man, he is till a virgin!
One day his oven breaks and his sister tells him to call the “witches” because they apparently can fix anything. It’s absolutely insta-love for Titus. Danica is the woman he wants to marry and have babies with. Danica is not immune to his charms either: she even has a nickname for him, coined by her “book club” – Cinnaman.
With Titus’ curse and Danica afraid of being trapped by her own family’s curse, could there be an HEA for the duo?
I was soooooo disappointed with this book. When I read the synopsis I was really excited because it had everything I wanted for my Halloween binge reading: romance, witches, swoony heroes! The names of the stores hooked me in! The book starts well, but when things start to progress, the book… fizzles out. It gave me the feeling you get when you see a pilot for a tv series and they are introducing lots of characters. Too many things happening at once and storylines to follow. Ok, I’m fine with that, but all of sudden we get all the resolutions to Danica’s family curse, Titus’ own curse and it’s just so… meh.
The plot with the cousin and the witch hunter is obviously plugging for book two, but there was too much of it in this book.
And don’t even get me started with the grandmother!!! The little old lady is a hybrid of Dolores Umbridge and an assortment of Disney villainesses. Every single time she appears in the book my blood boiled. Such hatred, such vitriol and such bigotry. And the only comeuppance she gets is a stern talk with Danica on the phone???? No siree, Bob. That was not enough for me.
The narration is excellent! Though it’s a loooooong book (over 10 hours and it felt like more), Ava Lucas does an amazing job. Her portrayal of the Grandma from Hell is just perfect! I only stayed with the audiobook because of the narration. Otherwise, I would have switched to eyeball reading because I could have finished faster.
I will probably read book 2 because I now want to know what happens with the witch hunter storyline, though.
(Also, I have a little pet peeve: she’s a technomancer witch, meaning she fixes gadgets… Hmmm, what kind of gadgets did her ancestors who were also technomancers fix like, for example, in the Middle Ages???? I know, suspension of disbelief and all that, but c’mon, that makes no sense.)
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