I just finished this and save to say it was soooo good! It was such a lighthearted read and it was funny as hell! If anything has witches, sign. me. up. I was so happy when I finished this book cause I loved it so much.

I got an ARC of this book from #NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. A Letter to Three Witches is out on Tuesday, Jan 25, 2022. I requested this book because I liked the cover and the description promised romance and witchcraft a combination I enjoy in books and film.

#ALettertoThreeWitches #NetGalley.

This book has a very clever inciting incident that compels you to read more. Tannish, a witch that enjoys stirring the pot sends a letter to her three cousins and that letter sends them into a tizzy. Add into this drama the fact that all four of the witches are banned from practicing magic by the Powers-that-Be due to a screw-up of an ancestor! How will things turn out? A Letter to Three Witches is a real page-turner, one of those can't put down, gotta stay up way past bedtime to see what happens type of book.

This book is billed as a Rom-Com and to that I found it to be heavy on the comedy and light on the romance. So if you are looking for a fun, truly laugh-out-loud book with a nice sprinkling of romance, get this book!

Most of the book is told through Gwen's POV. I enjoyed her growth over the course of the book and I wonder, based on how the book ends if this will be a series of books and maybe we will get books from the perspectives of her other cousins.

4 stars to #ALetterToThreeWitches a clever funny gem of a book!

Thanks #NetGalley for the opportunity to read an ARC of this book!

I received an ARC from the publisher and am voluntarily posting a review. All opinions are my own.
A Letter to Three Witches is another one of those paranormal romcoms where it has great ideas, I just wanted…more. More character depth, more world building, more grounding in the plot. In some ways, I totally get that it’s not meant to be taken seriously, but it still fell flat.
The world building is perhaps the most interesting part, and I wish it had been expanded on. I love the idea of magic involving bureaucracy with something like a Grand Council as a governing body.
The characters just lacked any interesting qualities. I can’t remember much about them actually, except that they all had these weird dramas that I felt like I was supposed to care about, but didn’t, interspersed with wildly immature hijinks.
I did like that the cat, Grim, had occasional chapters from his POV, however. It threw me at first, but it ended up being one of the few charming aspects of the book.
I didn’t like this one, but I can see the appeal, especially if you’ve enjoyed the recent crop of paranormal romcoms. They’ve been a mixed bag so far (not surprising, given my own complex relationship with paranormal romance), but I’d encourage you to give it a try if it appeals to you.

A Letter to Three Witches is quite the fun and whimsical story about a family of witches who were forced into "witchy" exile due to their great great grandfathers mistakes with spells. The family is forbidden to use magic as a result of this, and they're really good at being normal. Until one day, a letter from Tannith stirs up all kinds of trouble. As the three cousins, Gwen, Trudy, and Milo try to manage the chaos, they begin to start accidentally using their magic. A problem that's going to make things worse if the Council of Witches find out.

I really enjoyed this book once I realized that it was just simple fun. You're probably not going to get any big substance out of the story, and that's okay. It's intended for an adult audience (and the content is), but it reads more young adult with the writing style. There's a whole bunch of silly miscommunication drama, which I personally find really irritating. With that being said, the overall setting and vibes from this story were right up my alley, so I did enjoy quite a bit of it.

Overall, I give this book a 3/5 stars.

Thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for sending me an advanced e-copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. A Letter to Three Witches comes out on January 25, 2022.

This was such a cute book! Bass reinvents the premise of "A Letter to Three Wives," pulling on classic tropes to make a fun, fresh witchy romance. I hope she writes more in this world, as she left a few cliffhangers and unresolved conflicts! (although the book does provide a satisfying ending if it's a stand-alone.)

The characters are realistic and not too perfect, which I find is a common stumbling block in romance/chick-lit type books. Gwen is down-to-earth and practical while her cousins, Trudy and Milo, are decently well-rounded sidekicks in the adventure. Tannith makes a decently threatening villain, hovering over the narrative and imposing her voice through the perspective of her cat, Griz.

The opening chapter, from the cat's point of view, was a little jarring until I realized it was the cat. Otherwise, I have no complaints! This was a fun, relaxing read and perfect for a teacher on a long weekend.

There was a definite sense of situational humour throughout this enchanting new novel from Elizabeth Bass, calling back to traditional spellbinding comedies like "Bewitched" and "Sabrina the Teenage Witch,"

And as a lifelong fan of both witchy properties, I was certainly within the intended audience for "A Letter to Three Witches."

I simply couldn't help but imagine a young Melissa Joan Hart desperately pointing her evocative finger to fix the mess these wistful relations find themselves in almost constantly.

And while the absurd hijinks of Gwen, Trudy, and Miles were at times enough to induce an eye roll or two, on the other hand, I did appreciate that the author never took herself too seriously, and her creativity was completely unbridled.

A fun and frothy read overall.

The story opens when a letter is received by three family members who are are non practicing witches, that their adopted sister Tannith who is practicing that she is moving to New York and one of their partners will be joining her at the end of the week.

This sets up a flurry of who’s partner is cheating and leaving them. You can imagine mistrust and hijinks ensue as these three people try to figure out who is leaving.

The overall story was cute and satisfying, however in the scheme of things I don’t think it will be very memorable to me. This is a great book as a placeholder until you figure out what you want to read next.

Thank you NetGalley and Kensington Books for an Advanced Reader’s Copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.

*Thank you Netgalley and the publisher for providing me with an early copy of this book for review, all opinions are my own*

This book is a mess, everything happens at once and it doesn't stop happening not the end, so one thing after another happens, each more ridiculous than the next.
Is a fun book and very quick to read, because it has an action-packed plot you can read it in one day without any problems.
This is not the best book ever written you have to suspend your beliefs at various points in the book and just go with the flow.
But it's a quick, delicious, and fun story to read.
I recommend it if you want something quick to read that has witchy vibes and romance in the middle of chaos!
It was a great reading experience in the end.

This was a fun book to read for (my extended) spooky season! I’m always up for witchy fun, and this book centres around Gwen, her two cousins, Trudy and Milo, and Gwen’s adopted sister Tannith. Despite being from a long line of witches, nobody in their family is *technically* supposed to practice magic....🪄

Tannith send them all a letter saying she’s bewitched one of their partners and is planning to take them away. So Gwen and her cousins may dabble into magic a little bit in order to figure out who Tannith bewitched, and try to stop her.✨ But of course things don’t go smoothly and Trudy keeps making magicked cupcakes by accident. 🧁

I love urban fantasy because I enjoy seeing how magic clashes with us regular people in the stories. It was pretty funny reading about how Gwen and her cousins are learning magic for the first time, and there are some interesting results.🙊

I liked the family dynamics - cousins of different ages and stages of their lives, just banding together, without once feeling a patronising motherly presence. I also think I'm too young to identify with the grumpy spinster aunt, but here we are.

The characters are older, from post-college to empty nesters, but the plot feels a lot like a YA magical adventure. It is just adults, thrust so out of their depth they scramble around like teenagers trying to fix everything before the grown-ups find out. And as an adult whose worst fear is that real adults will find out I'm, in fact, incompetent, reading this filled me with so much joy.

One thing I didn't like was the forced tension. There are several times when the characters are on the verge of a breakthrough, but instead of pushing forward, they decide to call it a night and sleep on it. I found it unnecessary and a little repetitive.

What's weird about the marketing for this book is how heavy it leans on the romance aspect, when it is a barely-there sub-plot. It is so much more about taking a step back and re-evaluating your relationships - not just romantic, but familial, platonic, and work relationships as well - and realising you often take certain people for granted.

Loved this book so much! It was fun and a perfect summer read but not exclusively for the summer. It had the perfect witchy trope elements but can also be a rom-com. All characters have their own story going on and they aren’t hard to follow. The cat was the perfect touch and I am here for it. I highly suggest this book for those of us who have family drama and an evil cousin but who aren’t part of a long line of family witches who were banned from practicing magic. Enjoy!

4 Stars

One Liner: Entertaining, light-hearted, and fun.

Gwen comes from a family of witches. However, her family is forbidden from dabbling in magic and witchcraft. More than a century ago, her ancestor’s witchcraft created a catastrophic mess. The Grand Council of Witches punished the family by preventing them to perform magic for the next 150 years.
Gwen, Turdy, and Milo are more or less settled their relationships (or so they think). They are content to not attract the Watchers or the Council by publicly using magic for personal gain. All is well… until it isn’t.
What’s life without some magic, even if it causes more headache than relief? How can things be well with Tannith, the self-declared princess of Zenobia and the mean-spirited cousin of the family?
When Gwen receives Tannith’s letter about leaving Zenobia and moving to New York (but with a guy she charmed from one of the cousins), she begins to doubt if her relationship had survived or if her man, Daniel met the same fate as her previous dates (by succumbing to Tannith’s charm).
She meets Turdy and Milo to realize that things aren’t better for them. Turdy is evasive about Lardy, her husband. Milo isn’t too sure about Bert’s intentions either. Moreover, it appears that Turdy managed to unleash the inner witch in her and has no idea how to control it.
The appearance of Jeremy and his presence make Gwen wary for multiple reasons. He could be a Watcher, after all. Her sudden feelings for him don’t make sense either. She’s happy with Daniel, isn’t she?
What follows next is as messy as leaving a bunch of novice students in a chemistry lab. Can the cousins save the day and streamline their lives in the process?
• The book turned out to be exactly what I wanted. It’s silly, crazy, quirky, and even a little absurd. But it’s fast-paced and super fun. I like contemporary witchy books that are light on the mind and don’t demand too much attention.
• Gwen has many shades of the typical millennial and annoyed me at times. But since the story moves fast, she had no choice but to go with the flow and make faster decisions.
• The family dynamics were warm and cozy. Aunt Esme’s sharp sentences were a good contrast o balance the excess warmth of Gwen’s parents. (I’m looking forward to reading more about Aunt Esme).
• My favorite characters, of course, are Tannith and Griz (the black cat). That’s because these two have loads of potential with multiple layers. But I wasn’t looking for character development in this one, so I enjoyed the story without feeling a connection to any character.
• The romantic tracks also progressed too fast, but hey, we need a happy ever after. The book’s ending is just right for a sequel. I hope the author is drafting it already.
• My only rouse is that magic didn’t play as big a role as expected. I wanted more spells, more magic, and more witchcraft.

To sum up, A Letter to Three Witches is a light-hearted and entertaining read. Don’t look for logic or multilayered characters. Go with the flow and enjoy the funny moments.

Thank you, NetGalley and Kensington Books, for the ARC in exchange for an honest review. All opinions expressed are my own.

I had high expectations for this book, even after seeing previous mixed reviews but unfortunately this one missed the mark for me. There are WAY too many working parts for this to even be entertaining. As a lover of “witchy” books and romcoms I had high hopes for this one, and unfortunately this one just did not work for me.

*I received an eARC of this book from NetGalley in exchange for my review. All opinions are my own.

I loved this book! The premise of it is that there is a "cousin coven" of witches who are genetically witches, but due to some of their ancestors' mistakes, they are not allowed to practice witchcraft in any form, or they face retribution from the witches council (Serious Sabrina the Teenage Witch vibes here and I am here for it!) One of their own, however; is trying to get exactly that to happen.

All of the characters were entertaining. I was invested in their stories, in the town, and the book itself. I would absolutely recommend it to any of my witchy loving friends, and sincerely hope this will turn into a series.

Fun and light and quirky. But the story felt a little messy with more than a few plot holes.
If you're looking for something you don't have to think too much about, this is perfect.

I voluntarily read and reviewed an advanced copy of this book. All thoughts and opinions are my own. Thank you to Netgalley and the publisher for providing a copy of this book. This book follows Gwen, a witch whose family is forbidden from practicing magic. To enforce this, the Grand Council of Witches plants people known as Watchers to spy on such people, and Gwen and her family have lived with the fear of them all their lives.

But one day, Gwen and two of her cousins, Trudy and Milo, receive a letter from Tannith, Gwen’s adoptive sister. She claims to have bewitched one of their partners and will run away with him in a week’s time. As the three of them begin to speculate which of their partners is going to run off with Tannith, one of the cousins unwittingly begins to explore their dormant magical powers - setting off a comical chain of events. Meanwhile, Gwen begins to suspect that a handsome grad student that keeps on cropping up is a Watcher trying to catch them out.

This was a really fun and light book. It’s got a lovely humorous tone, good laugh-out-loud moments, and very quirky characters that make it really entertaining. It was good escapist fun - the plot is very simple and uncomplicated, but still manages to stay interesting throughout with some decent twists and turns, and it definitely doesn’t take itself too seriously.

However, I do err a bit on whether I’d describe this as a rom-com - whilst it is comedic and has a romantic element, the focus is very much on Gwen’s relationship with her family and the intrigue with the Council of Witches. The romance is quite sweet and gentle, and I did enjoy it, but if you are someone looking for a witchy romance novel, I’m not quite sure it fits the bill. That said, it’s a very enjoyable and lighthearted book that I read pretty much in one sitting, and I would recommend it to anyone looking for an escapist witchy read with quirky characters, some funny moments, with a sweet romantic subplot.

Content notes: Infidelity (in-past, side characters).

I think it would have been a great stand alone, beach/weekend read. I'm annoyed that the ending left it wide open for book 2.

This was a fun, fast paced romcom with a witchy story. I really enjoyed getting to know these characters and love the self-discovery storyline. Very fun story that would be great for any time of the year!

RomCom + Witches = exactly my kind of book. And A Letter to Three Witches was exactly the kind of light, funny read that I expected.

As three cousins from a family banned from doing magic attempt to fix some magical mistakes, hilarity ensues. The relationship between Gwen, Milo, and Trudy was really the heart and soul of this book, and their interactions perfectly encapsulated what it's like to have family members that you would do anything for (including breaking and entering, spying, and ferrying around a toad that may or may not have once been someone's husband). Beyond that, watching the three of them dabble in their forbidden magic was a delight - chaotic and funny and also a little heartbreaking because what if they'd been able to use their power all along?

The comedic moments were the best parts of this book. I laughed out loud more than once - accidentally magic cupcakes, an Elvis lizard, Laird's reappearance in Kermit the Frog underwear. Plus, Aunt Esme was an excellent and hilarious surprise of a side character.

But while the cousins' hijinks were the highlight of the book, some of the other elements didn't quite hit that level for me. The budding romance between Gwen and Jeremy felt a bit like an afterthought at times, and I was somewhat bothered by the general fact that not one of the cousins actually seemed to like or trust their current romantic partners. I almost wanted the book to dig into that more - did the fact that the three of them were settling for a life without magic mean that they were also willing to settle in romance? Maybe a more serious discussion than the book warranted, but it still felt unexplored.

Additionally, Tannith made for a cookie-cutter villain. Her monologue near the end of the book gives some insight into what was driving her, but it didn't do anything to lessen the fact that she was just kind of terrible. I would have loved to see more depth in her; while having insight come from her familiar Griz was entertaining (who doesn't love a chapter narrated by a cat?), I think it might have been more effective to just have Tannith narrate her own chapters.

Still, A Letter to Three Witches was as fun and silly as a magical cupcake, and made for a great quick read!

3.5/5

This was a fun, quick snd quirky read! The family and magic made this story very enjoyable. The writer seems newer ep the development of the story was a bit slow. It is definitely something I would classify as a fluff read.