⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 3 stars
Thank you to Netgalley and BooksGoSocial for gifting me with a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review!

The accidental gatekeeper follows Everly, who went back to her hometown after her drug-selling husband lands in jail. When humans go missing and the town shuts down its magical borders, Everly must learn to control her new powers.

This book was light-hearted, humorous and sassy. The book started out really interesting, although I would’ve liked everything to be a bit more explained.

The story was very fast-paced. It felt like the characters and me as a reading had no time to breath with everything that kept on happening. It seemed a bit much and repetitive. I think it would’ve been better to pace everything that happened a bit more, so the story is a bit easier to follow. Because the fast pace, I also had to go back sometimes to remind myself who some characters were.

Everly is a fun character. She’s a mom and forty-five years old. Despite her being middle-aged, she felt really young and I felt like I could relate to hear as someone in my mid-twenties. I liked her inner thoughts. What I disliked was how she doesn’t seem to have a proper past and how her interactions with the people in town were only about their high school time.

I also feel like a lot of questions that were set by the premise weren’t answered in the end. Because of this, it feels a bit like a filler book. Many questions that were answered, were unsatisfactory to me. Including the motivation of the antagonist and how they did it.

Overall, it was a nice and fun book with a lot of humor mixed with fantasy. With how the book ended, I’m not sure I’ll continue the series.