by: Celestine Martin
Series: Elemental Love
Genre: Romantic Comedy/Romantic Fantasy/Paranormal Romance
Release Date: September 27, 2022
Publisher: Forever
Love is the trickiest spell of all.
Lucinda Caraway loves living in Freya Grove, the mystic seaside town where charms, hexes, and magical beings of all kinds are the norm. She spends her days teaching high school history and her nights reading tea leaves and tending to her conjure garden. It’s a good life . . . but she can’t stop wishing for more.
Until one night, that wish turns into a spell, and suddenly Lucy can’t say no. Not to a public karaoke performance. Not to running a 10K. And, most alarmingly, not to her high school crush, Alexander Dwyer, who needs her help unjinxing his new house—which just happens to be right across the street from hers.
Alex has spent the last ten years traveling the world on adventures Lucy has only ever dreamed of, and he’s planning to leave again as soon as his house is safe to sell. But until Lucy can unhex herself, she and Alex are stuck together. And with so much magic in the air, maybe the next spell Lucy casts will be the one that convinces him to stay.
Witchful Thinking is the first book in debut author Celestine Martin’s Elemental Love series. This is a second-chance paranormal romance between two people whom you will fall in love with immediately.
Lucinda “Lucy” Caraway and Alexander “Alex” Dwyer first met in high school, when Alex was the new kid. The two became fast friends but managed to keep their feelings for each other under wraps. Alex left Freya Grove, New Jersey mere minutes after graduation to travel and seek adventure. Lucy stayed in order to have a safe life, not that Alex asked her to join him. It’s now been 11 years, 8 months, 3 weeks, and 27 days since Lucy and Alex last saw each other. Lucy is now a high school teacher in Freya Grove and Alex is an award-winning photographer who travels the world.
Alex is to be back in town to celebrate his birthday with his family. On a whim, he goes to the Founder’s Day Festival and gets in line for the Madame Zora fortune booth. Coincidentally, he ends up behind Lucy whose fortune gets stuck. Pleasantries made the two part ways thinking this will be the last they will see each other. But Freya Grove is known for its magic and the magic gods have decided that these two belong together, even if they don’t know it.
I loved the story of Lucy and Alex and watching them come together. They share this easy banter as they reminisce about high school. Witchful Thinking is a slow-burn romance with flirty words and innuendos. I’m leaving out a lot about the book by design because I really loved reading about these two and the housing project they worked on together. The romantic gestures are definitely in abundance. I now wish gnomes were real. Just saying. Witchful Thinking does have what I’m going to call a villain. I don’t know if Celestine set out to make this character into that, but I definitely vote to cast a spell and turn this person into a donkey. Maybe that’s still too nice for them. Hmmm… I am very much looking forward to the next book in this series. The possibilities of what will happen are endless.
~ Favorite Quotes ~
“You don’t know how deep a puddle is until you step in it.”
“You only live once. Live it up.”
“Be careful what you wish for because you just might get it.”
“Fine is just another way to say ‘feelings inside, not expressed.’”
“It doesn’t take an act of magic to be kind.”
“No good deed goes unforgotten.”
“You just look to the horizon and take a big leap.”
“If you have the courage to wish, you have the courage to act.”
“Open your heart to the possibilities of love. There are countless reasons to walk away. Find the reasons to stay.”
**Received a copy from the author and voluntarily reviewed it.**
Rating: 4.5
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