I liked the character dynamics, and I think teens particularly will appreciate the nuanced approach to gender and sexuality--there's explicitly bi witches, there's married lesbian witches, there's a trans witch, etc, and I loved that!

However the witch stuff fell a bit flat for me--the worldbuilding definitely felt like an afterthought to the character development, which can be OK but like........for my money you can almost never have too much witch stuff! And that lack made the witch stuff part of the mystery...underwhelming. Also--and perhaps this is just because of where I live--I felt like the book didn't use its Salem, MA setting to its fullest advantage. For the most part this could have taken place in any suburb.

Still, the characters and the romance were great, and readers who are less passionate about witch stuff than I am will enjoy it.