Defiance got majorly screwed over by her ex-husband and his mother in her divorce. In spite of putting her heart and soul into owning a resturant, it’s ripped away from her with some low blows and a shady lawyer. Luckily, she finds out that the grandmother that she never knew bequeathed her a huge house. Sure, it needs some work, but where else does she have to go? Something is super weird though as people keep randomly showing up asking her to find things, both inanimate and not.

Having read the Charley Davidson series, there are a lot of similarities between the two. Dephne (identity crisis, much?) is super snarky so there’s really a lot of fun banter. She just seems so incredibly flighty though and not at all like a 40 year old woman. After a while, it kind of got on my nerves. Slow down, girl and listen to what people are trying to tell you. She has this idea that she has 3 days to turn down the house, but she won’t stop long enough for anyone to tell her this rule doesn’t exist! It’s also a bit cliched with the whole chosen one/power of three type trope and the instalove, though a hot inked handyman can come work in my house in a kilt anytime.

Betwixt was a light, bubbly book to binge. I’m not immediately tuned in enough to want to throw myself on a sword to get the next book in the series, but it was cute and bubbly and a nice reset before continuing on. If you love the Charley Davidson series, I think you’ll find that the correlations of MC, best friend, love interest, and supportive secondary characters will drawn you right into the Betwixt & Between series.

I give Betwixt 3 out of 5 propellers. I just didn’t love Defiance/Dephne and it really distracted me from the storyline.

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