This Coven Won't Break is the second in the duology that follows Hannah Walsh as she navigates high school, girls, and the looming threats towards her coven. Being a teenage witch is hard, and after the traumatic events Hannah has had to deal with over the past year, she's excited to get some downtime to be able to enjoy her senior year and have fun with her bestie Gemma and her new girlfriend (and blood witch), Morgan. THAT IS until hunters try to create a "medicine" that turns witches into ~regs~ and takes away their powers forever. Hannah and the other witches must protect their coven and others, before it's too late.

I picked this book up because I read the first one and I wanted to know what happened next. While the storyline is interesting enough, that is literally the only reason that I keep going back to these books. None of the characters are extremely likable and the writing style falls flat. I felt like I was just sifting through series of events the entire time as an outsider, like someone was telling me what they've been going through lately, it wasn't immersive in the slightest. I would label this book as "plot heavy"; I feel that a more accurate term would be plot only. While we get information about the characters, it almost reads like they took a personality quiz and the author is giving little bits of that information throughout the book instead of learning about the characters' true selves through their own thoughts, words, and actions. The only person the reader really gets that insight from is Hannah (understandably so as the narrator), and while that's great, it would've been nice to see a bit of that from more of the characters. Along with this, I had some hangups with the plot. The villain completely came out of left field and wasn't shocking at all. The story left too many bread crumbs that led to the final events for it to not be predictable. And the ending? I felt SWINDLED. I wanted so much more. I won't say I regret reading this book and I very much love that LGBTQIA+ representation is consistently woven throughout but, I'm not sure if I'd recommend it. Sometimes I'm in the mood for a sugary sweet YA type beat and while this satiated that craving, I wish it had a bit more depth.

If there ends up being another Hannah Walsh book, I'll probably pass on it and just look up what happens like the human garbage that I am.