Book Review: From Bad to Cursed by Lana Harper

From Bad to Cursed by Lana Harper
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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Book Review: Payback's A Witch by Lana Harper (The Witches of Thistle Grove #1)

Payback's a Witch by Lana Harper
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

I read this book twice-once in the fall, the second time during April, and I loved it so much. It had ghost possession, a magical competition, a woman coming back home after years of being in another magicless town...it was so perfect that I immediately put all of them on my tbr to get to this year because of how good it was. The fall vibes in the book were total perfection and I loved every bit of it, even the romance.

Emmy Harlow has just come back to the town of Thistle Grove after being gone for so long, and she is back to become the Arbiter of the magical games Thistle Grove has every year, she left because of her relationship with one Gareth Blackmoore that left her feeling so upset. When she does come back, she does feel her magic returning after years of it not returning after so long, and she finds out that her best friend and fellow witch Natalia Avramov has also been scorned by this Gareth Blackmoore that they decide to team up and destroy him during the annual games.

What Emmy didn't count on was the fact that she was falling hard for Talia (which I loved) and she didn't want the Blackwoods to win this year, so as Arbiter, she does try and make sure the teaming up of Talia and Rowan help bring down the Blackmoores, and she also spends time in her small town and sees how it changed after she left. But that twist at the end of the book was SO GOOD, have Emmy compete after what happened in the last trial, which I loved very much, and how she knew pretty much everything to help the Avramovs win the trials and knock off the Blackmoores.

I also loved how Emmy talked down to Igraine, who needed to sit her old behind down.

The ball at the end and how Taila gave the wreath to Emmy was so on point for her that I was smiling at the end. I now wanna read the rest of the series because of how good the first book was and how the author incorporated magic and romance in this small town I really don't wanna leave. I want to be a permanent member of this town because it was SO GOOD.

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