Alysha Gale is from a very odd sort of family in which she has a lot of aunties, a lot of cousins (one of whom she's expected to marry) and they all possess magical powers. When Alysha gets a strange letter from her grandma, who appears to have wither died or mysteriously disappeared, she ends up being put in charge of a junk shop with a few tricks up its sleeve, but also ends up embroiled with an evil sorcerer and his not-so-evil but very-handsome assassin, and some dragon lords intent on destroying the city.

This book is hard to explain. It's urban fantasy with some fantastic female characters, and a family full of feisty matriarchs, plus some sexy male love interests and a sorcerer and dragon lords thrown into the mix to spice thongs up. I feel like I shouldn't have liked this but I just became really invested in the Gale family, and I just had to keep reading to see how it all ended up. I really thought that the styructure of the Gale family was fascinating - the family had to have a male leader to anchor it to a place which made it seem like the male was head of the family but no way, the aunts are in charge and they're the ones that put everyone else in place. I loved that. I also loved how sex positive this book is (despite the fact it seems like all the cousins or 'cousins' are sleeping with one another, but you kind of get over that after a while), and it managed to do it without being too descriptive or raunchy which could put some readers off.

I think I may just have to keep reading this series. One of the only negative points I would have to say is that for some reason it took me a while to read, I think the chapters just seemed a bit long at times, and I definitely should have finished this within two days rather than four given the actual length of it.