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Best Hex Ever by Nadia El-Fassi
4.0
funny hopeful lighthearted medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

This is so lighthearted and cozy and horny and genuinely a really good time. This is absolutely a fated-mates style set-up with insta-lust, so if that's not your thing, take note! But I wasn't bothered by this at all - it felt like most of my fave cheesy early aughts rom-coms. Of course he walks into her cute cafe and makes eyes with her and they keep crossing paths in silly ways until they finally bang! Also, the complaints that this is somehow too horny are frankly absurd, because I feel like I read a thousand reviews saying there's too much sexiness and then they didn't kiss until more than halfway through and it felt right? This is like Practical Magic with more kitchen witch baking and a happily ever after. Extremely low stakes. 

As always when I read contemporary romance, I'm always *hoping* for a sexual health conversation before oral, and it almost never happens (shout out to Erin McLellan who gets it right every time, though). It doesn't happen here, and there is an annoying comment about how they've "nearly" had sex that just doesn't make sense to me when the FMC is canonically bi and they've already had oral and don't need the hetero only-PIV-is-sex nonsense. But these are the little sex quibbles that make me cranky about contemporary stories, generally, because I can't suspend my disbelief as easily as when I'm in a historical or fantasy setting. 

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