A Demon's Guide to Wooing a Witch
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Calladia Cunnington curses the day she met Astaroth the demon, but when he shows up memoryless, why does she find him so helpless . . . and sort of hot?
Calladia Cunnington knows she’s rough around the edges, despite being the heir to one of small-town Glimmer Falls’ founding witch families. While her gym obsession is a great outlet for her anxieties and anger, her hot temper still gets the best of her and manifests in bar brawls. When Calladia saves someone from a demon attack one night, though, she’s happy to put her magic and rage to good use . . . until she realizes the man she saved is none other than Astaroth, the ruthless demon who orchestrated a soul bargain on her best friend.
Astaroth is a legendary soul bargainer and one of the nine members of the demon high council—except he can’t remember any of this. Suffering from amnesia after being banished to the mortal plane, Astaroth doesn’t know why a demon named Moloch is after him, nor why the muscular, angry, hot-in-a-terrifying-way witch who saved him hates him so much.
Unable to leave anyone in such a vulnerable state—even the most despicable demon—Calladia grudgingly decides to help him. (Besides, punching an amnesiac would be in poor taste.) The two set out on an uneasy road trip to find the witch who might be able to restore Astaroth’s memory so they can learn how to defeat Moloch. Calladia vows that once Astaroth is cured, she’ll kick his ass, but the more time she spends with the snarky yet utterly charming demon, the more she realizes she likes this new, improved Astaroth . . . and maybe she doesn’t want him to recover his memories, after all.
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3 primary booksGlimmer Falls
Glimmer Falls is a 3-book series with 3 primary works first released in 2023 with contributions by Sarah Hawley.
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I just finished How to woo a witch by Sarah Hawley and here are my thoughts.
Calladia isn't everyone's cup of tea with her white hot temper and smart mouth. She is no lady and takes pleasure in doing things for herself and not society, or her mother, think she should be doing.
When Calladia sees someone being attacked she cannot help but step in to help.. Only the person, or demon, she saves, happens to be a soul bargainer, the same one who tried to take her best friend's soul.
Astaroth doesn't recognize his savior. With his memory being wiped and he has no clue why he has been banished to the human realm or why Moloch, another demon, was trying to kill him. Calladia can't leave him in the streets like this but helping her mortal enemy is even a stretch for her but when Moloch blows up her house she knows she has to help Astaroth recover his memories in hopes of defeating Moloch. This book had a lot to live up to and believe me, it did! I loved Calladia from A witch's guide to fake dating a demon so when I found out this book was all about her I squealed!! Calladia is the scrappy, ride and die friend everyone should have but you can tell she was still figuring herself out after everything that happened to her. She can hold her own and I love characters that do that in books. Astaroth had the best redemption for me. Losing his memory changed who he was for the better and I could have read all about that all day long.
The whole concept of this series is finding out truths about the demon realm and I need so much more!! I'm excited to find out whos story is going to come next but I also really enjoyed seeing the little updates on Mariel.
The book has the perfect amount of spice too. I give it a 3 on the naughty pepper scale! It's done so well I could feel my temperature rising! This is definitely my new favorite series! Glimmer falls is one heck of a place to be!
5 stars. All the stars! Take them all!
Thank you @netgalley and @berkleypub for my gifted copy. @mssarahhawley keep those books coming!
TL;DR Review: Calladia is MY GIRL. She's angry, she takes no shit, and she defends both her friends and the helpless with the tenacity and fierceness of a rottweiler. She's been manipulated and abused and NEVER AGAIN. Oh, and she absolutely despises Astoroth. So she has some pretty big walls up...but when it's the centuries old demon who is suddenly nearly helpless...well. I liked this book way more than I expected to and much more than the first, in part because of how strongly I identify with what Calladia has been through in her life and her response to it. The banter between her and Astoroth is hilarious, the sexual tension is ridiculous, and the spicy scenes are exactly that.
