I just love novels centered around witch's. # Ahisha McGregory has a novel #Tne Demon's Pursuit of Mor that is fun. It's in her series #The Laurent Witches Book 1.

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Morgaine Palmer since she was 15, has dreamed of joining the Circle of Light. A elite sect of covens, tasked with protecting witches from demonic attack. Young witches fortunate enough to join...

I really enjoyed Morgaine as a character, I thought she was a unique characters and enjoyed getting to know her. The story was great and I liked the way the author writes.

Thank you to the publisher and NetGalley for an ARC in exchange for an honest review. This book was different to my normal reads but it had everything. I thoroughly enjoyed this book and would hughly recoment it

For my taste, this book had a very sluggish beginning. I put it down several times until I could motivate myself to continue reading. Once you get past that point, it's a thoroughly readable and entertaining book.

Although the slow start took me some time to get going, I thought that this was a very promising start to a series and will be looking forward to reading the next parts. I especially enjoyed Mor's character, and found her especially realistic and relatable but I thought that parts of the story were a bit confusing due to the time jumps. All in all though a very good read.

This is one of those books that I got because of the cover, and you must admit that it looks so good!

The best parts of the story were the world-building, the magic system, and of course, the plot twists. It has a slow start, but be patient as the story picks up and is much better-paced in the second part of the book. It's intriguing as if you can see the author honing her craft throughout the book. It was the second part of the book that made me truly connect with the characters and root for them. I particularly enjoyed Mor and Cage's relationship.

Overall, it is a good story, with morally gray and relatable characters. We get multiple POVs, including the antagonists which was refreshing. I wish there was a little more showing than telling, but all in all, I loved the story.

This is another case of first half of the book and second half don't look like the same book. I loved the second half, the first half not so much.
Also... why would you do that to the end? I get cliffhangers but... no.
Overall this was a good very entertaining book with great world building but predictable plot twists.
I might check out the next book... I'm not going to lie I'm curious.

Thank you to Netgalley and the publishers for the chance to read this book in exchange for an honest review.

It has been so long since I fell in love with a witchy world but I absolutely adored this one!

With well written characters and an amazing plot this book had me hooked and left me craving the next one.

A must read for witchy lovers!

This book had me conflicted as the second part of the book proved to be way better paced than the first. In the beginning it was hard form me to invest time in the book as I didn't felt any attachment to them, but as soon the pace picked up and I started to enjoy more of the reading experience, the emotions started to flow better. The ending seemed a bit confusing, but overall it was not a bad book.

I received a copy of this book via Netgalley. I knew it was available via NetGalley because of interacting with the author, Ahisha McGrefory, on Twitter. I promised to review the book, though I'd hoped to have it done at least a month earlier than I have. The delay starting the book is because I was still reading other books for my book group. The delay finishing the book and writing the review is because January 2021 has not really been any better than most of 2020 for reading and focusing.

To get 5-stars from me requires the book to be one of my favorites. This book didn't quite make the cut. For the first half of the book, I wasn't sure why the title was The Demon's Pursuit of Mor, but the woman on the cover appeared to be a different character in the book. The book could have used a better story editor. There was a lot of worldbuilding and information, and much of it came in the form of exposition and slight info dumps. 
The title itself is a mystery for much of the book. Who is the demon? Which demon is pursuing Mor? I spent most of the book searching for the answer to this question. McGregory constructed her characters carefully. They drive the narrative. Additionally, all her characters are morally grey, which is a popular choice right now. She does an excellent job. It's a relatively fast read.
I recommend this book if you like witches and supernatural stories with morally grey characters. There is a lot going on and a lot of world-building. I'm interested to see where the series goes!  (Especially since it left off at a cliff-hanger.)

First of all, atypically I have to start at the end, because WHAT. THE. HELL. I know this is first book in a series but it finishes literally IN THE MIDDLE OF A BATTLE!!! Not cool, Ahisha, not cool.

That out of the way, I enjoyed the storyline of this arc. The blurb describes almost half of the book and the author describes the world we are entering quite nicely. I wasn't quite sold on Morgaine's first love interest, it didn't really feel right. Her relationship with her "beloved" sister was also quite odd.
When we get to the part after the blurb, there is quite a lot of time jumps which make the story quite confusing. Also, the book is written in third person the whole time so I was quite confused why we were told which character we are with. If the chapters were just numbered, it would have been better, less confusing and easier to follow, in my opinion. By the end of the book, I wasn't too sure that Morgaine was still the main character as there was a lot of the second part of the book that had nothing to do with Morgaine.

I rated this book 3/5, because the story is ok, but nothing spectacular. The writing is easy to follow, but it wasn't unputdownable. I for one will probably not remember to look for the second one.

First of all this book is very underrated! It’s really a hidden gem! At first the story was kind of hard to get into. Mor was a little bit annoying at first! But a few chapters in the story kicked off and I really enjoyed it! Overall a very nice read!

A thoroughly enjoyable book. I will be keeping an eye out for book two, especially considering this book left on a cliffhanger. The plot was intriguing, though I found the small time jumps toward the end a little odd- wanting more of the relationship development among the characters.

First of all, can we all appreciate the beauty of this cover? It's stunning!
The characters are interesting and the world-building is sweet and slow (not TOO slow though!). I did have a difficult time getting into it for the first two chapters, but once I forced myself through it I was immersed in the life of a kick-butt female character!

The Demon's Pursuit of Mor is about Morgaine, a young witch set on becoming a Circle of Light member -a coven that protects other witches from demons. However, when her mother dies, her and her sister are left to pick up the pieces. When Lord Lincoln Winston comes to her sister's birthday party (an attempt to get her sister out of her depression), Morgaine and her family are swept off their feet by the charismatic leader. Though it becomes apparent he's hiding a dangerous secret. When Morgaine digs a little to deep, she gets on his bad side and everything as she knows it will never be the same.

I wanted to like this book. The plot sounded intriguing enough however the execution just wasn't there. The characters seemed too juvenile to be in their twenties. They're too overreactive and all over the place. I couldn't get a read on any of them enough to like them. They don't have consistent personalities. Morgaine - 'I hate this guy. He's definitely evil' to 'He is helping me so much. This can't possibly have a hidden motive'. The plot twists were painfully obvious, the romance just seemed too rushed. Nothing was organized well.

Overall, the book was just too heavy on the descriptions. I don't care what everyone is wearing or how their hair is done -it adds nothing to the story. And here's this gem: Her double French braids said, 'I am a nice person.' What? I've known plenty of terrible people that have worn French braids. I was not deceived by them wearing their hair a certain way. I don't understand the correlation. If a character gives off a friendly impression, show me by her mannerisms.

There was potential in some parts of the book. The magic system and their hierarchy seemed well thought out I want to be more positive about the book but I don't have much to go off of. I'm sorry, this is a hard pass for me.

Thank you to NetGalley, the publisher and the author for an eARC in exchange for an honest review.

This could have been an amazing book. The storyline was there and I could see the amazing potential there.

I am one of those readers that I want you to take me through the book as though I am the main character so I want to be shown what’s happening and not just told what’s happened. This book seemed to really prefer telling me which was something I wasn’t a major fan of but it was still readable - just my own personal opinion of course.

I found the start of the book to be so messy too. It was very slow and we were introduced to other characters through their own POV’s very quickly - too quickly - before I really got to know the main character, never mind the secondary characters. These would have been amazing at the end of the book as a bonus rather than how it was, in my opinion.

However, getting the POV from the villain (maybe?) was a great twist & let me as the reader get into their head to see what they were thinking and understand them more.

I wanted the characters to be more defined and clear as to what was happening and their personalities. Make me love/hate them. I want my heart to be racing and be swept up with them but that was missing here.

And don’t even ask me about the ending. I love cliffhangers where I scream and demand book 2 but the way it ended, I screamed because it could have had that ending.

Overall, there was some serious potential here but I feel like it needed to be more rounded, less time jumps and just more showing.

Will I read book 2? It’s a possibility because I really think with some more time and more time in that world, it could be a great story.

There are things here that are interesting - the ideas, the premise of the story and the setting are all engaging and could almost make you want to read the entire thing. But then we get to the problematic parts.
Right from the start all the feelings and motivations of the characters are presented as facts. The omniscient narrator tells you that one character is not happy about the situation, that another is proud or angry or annoyed. We then are told that this or that is happening.... However we are never SHOWN anything. And the attention span of the telling is the same as that of a squirrel in a nut shop. Poof and it's gone.
There is a moment at the start of the book when a character is about to watch a video of the previous scene and instead of showing us what the character is focusing on we switch to something completely different.
Besides this show/tell issue, I also have an issue with the prose. Often we get incomplete sentences or redundant ones.
We also get so many descriptions. So many. We know, in detail what kind of trees grow around the mansion and what kind of artificial flowers are placed under the windows. We know what kind of rug is in the foyer and what wood the doors of individual bedrooms are made of. We really don't need that.
And another thing - we really really don't need to be given a detailed description of physical appearance of every character we come across. Do you need to know the EXACT height of a character? No, of course you don't.
All in all, there is potential here, but the potential is sadly mostly wasted.

I have conflicted feelings about this. This seems to be a debut by the author, and it is clear that they have the talent - they simply have a few kinks to work out.

Lets start with the good. The prose is excellent. The attention to detail, the descriptions. The magic system and the whole world seems quite promising.

Unfortunately, I feel like the book never moved beyond "promising" phase.

The descriptions of objects tend to overshadow the action and characters.
The characters all feel pretty much the same (child-like and inconsequential, changing moods and styles of behaviors on a whim - or simply on what author needs them to do at the time, which leaves a sour taste for the reader).
The prose glazes over pivotal moments, at times giving me whiplash when the characters (any of the characters, in fact) were faced with a surprising turn of action, and they took it in stride, never devoting a moment to any sense of "wtf". It took a single-sentenced argument, and no thoughts in the interim, for one female to change her mind from vehemently refusing to "instantly agreeing". There was no reason to rush in most of those cases! The readers (or at least me) love to glympse the thought process of a POV.
The prose is very prose-y. Unfortunately, dialogue continues to be prose-y. The characters' lines sound, for example: "Nevertheless, afterward, I concluded... (...)"
We move beyond the blurb after the 50% of the whole volume (which, in translation, means that about 35% of beginning could've been cut).
When (at 50% mark) we get the first long explanation of strategy, motives and confession by the villian, which made me stop reading and come here to actually write this review.
The main plot of the book is overshadowed by everything. There was no focus, no logic, no organic progress to action or characters. There were glimpses of them, so i think the author instinctively knows what she could focus on, but instead she chooses to focus on things that could appear appealing in a movie - in a book, those efforts rang hollow. I have many mixed feelings about plot points and characters, but suffice it to say that I didnt find this book enjoyable. Valiant first try, but a lot of work remains to be done here.

Mixed feelings about this one. Love the cover!

Pros - I liked Mor, she's strong, doesn't always get things right but carries on going. I liked the other strong women around her too. I liked the different view points the chapters were written from, giving the reader a look into different character's thinking. the magic system was well presented and easy to understand. the book is well written.

Cons - I didn't find I could get deeply into the characters, there was a lot of telling about what the characters were doing rather than showing and a lot of descriptive passages and these slowed things down a bit for me. Also, I found the politics and manoeuvring a bit much for me.

On balance, although I enjoyed the book I probably won't read the next in the series.

I really enjoyed this book! The worldbuilding is very intriguing and the characters are either likeable or despicable in the right way. The story was well paced and pleasant to follow and the different points of views were well exploited. However, I did find dome descriptions a little too long and the style was sometimes not very smooth. Apart from that, it was a fun and exciting read and I'm really excited to see what the author has in store for the sequel!