
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
From Bad to Cursed was a really fun time. I enjoyed the mystery aspect to it, like Isidora and Rowan are detectives looking to find out who did it, and at the same time, fall in love. This book feels like a little witchy cozy mystery but with a bit of spice, and I loved every bit of it.
Isadora Arvamov is the necromantic demon-summoning, animal-loving witch who starts off the book by summoning a demon. Then, during a tryout of who's going to be the May Queen for Beltane, that's when a curse was cast on one of the contestants-Holly Thorn--and that sets off this mystery of who cast the curse and how to stop them. And the only way Isadora can find out why is by teaming up with her archnemesis, Rowan Thorn, the cousin of Holly Thorn.
At first, Issa and Rowan didn't wanna work with each other, and the fact that they used to work at an animal shelter together didn't work, but I thought the way they worked together to find out who cursed Holly was perfect. They went to talk to their suspects, they did research, and then when it turned out that it was one of Issa's family members, especially the great, great, great, great grandmother,r Valentina Arvamov, who really hated Alastair Thorn for some odd reason.
At the same time, Isadora is also the creative director of her family's haunted house, and she came up with a story that sounds just like her and Rowan's story during the mystery, and the two curses, to me, were very interesting. I say that because of the way they were cast and how Issa and Rowan, mostly Issa, when the Dead Skull Hex appeared to try and kill Rowan, tried to stop it. Even went to his cousin's place to get a necklace bound with a curse, and then there's something that Issa has been hiding from her mother, Elena, for years now.
Isadora doesn't want to work for her family business anymore. She wants to be a fashion designer. She has so many ideas that she wants to create, but she doesn't want to leave her family. When she does tell her mother after the fight between her, Rowan, Valentina, and the demon she summoned in the first half of the book (whose name I've clearly forgotten) and the sad part was, Valentina had possessed Natalia (again) and it took Issa to try and save her sister, only to call upon a demon to do it and to curse the said demon back to hell.
I really enjoyed this one, not like the first one because I really enjoyed that one, but I really liked this one so much.
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