***DNF at 18%***

I think this is a classic case of "It's not you, It's me." THE CHARMED LIST by Julie Abe is a YA contemporary romance with an urban fantasy flair. While I typically love urban fantasy, I did not enjoy it here. It's the start of summer break and Ellie is looking forward to a magical convention down in San Francisco that her family attends every year with all the other witches and covens in the area until she learns that her nemesis Jack will also be attending and somehow winds up roadtripping with him down to the convention. This is where the book succeeded in being a YA contemporary romance. There were plenty of romcom moments in the part that I read between Jack and Ellie. Where it failed for me is the magical component. It felt like an afterthought and a gimmick to make the book stand out among all the other YA romances. It was not a fully thought out magical system, like who has magic, why do they have magic, how does it work, etc. If the fantasy component (which was light to begin with) was thrown out, I'd have enjoyed the book a lot more.