So, a huge reason I loved Payback’s a Witch was definitely because of the queerness, so when I realized that the main characters of this one wouldn’t be queer I had a feeling I wouldn’t love it.

That said, the story was still SO MUCH FUN. Was it a little corny and predictable? Sure! But I just so happen to love corny things. Rowan and Issa were super cute and I loved watching the two of them kind of work through their prejudices while working together.

Honestly, the main reason I didn’t give it 5 stars was because the handling of some issues just…felt a little off? I don’t think it was bad, honestly I think it had a lot to do with the fact that the book is from Issa’s perspective and she just happened to be trying a little too hard sometimes with race/gender/sexuality. Ex:

“male identifying” and “female identifying”….couldve still said men and women 😂 Like if they identify as such then that means they are. Rowan is a black man and it’s brought up and kind of awkwardly compared to the prejudice against the Avmarov family? And I think it’s made clear that it’s DEFINITELY worse for black folks but it was just kind of clunky.

Overall still a VERY good time!