Cover Image: A Letter to Three Witches

A Letter to Three Witches

Pub Date:   |   Archive Date:

Member Reviews

A light-hearted read, with witches and family warmth. a nice and clean transition piece if you are looking to move away from YA and in to NA but dont want the shifter books that are going around. nice pacing but not without issues and the plot seem a little forced in areas but over all it a okay read and nice to see a book that isnt a love story about fae

Was this review helpful?

A Letter to Three Witches
by Elizabeth Bass
4 stars

This is a lighthearted and fun read, years after a spell went wrong generations are now forbidden to practice witchcraft.
After an accidental transformation and a few other mishaps, the cousins must come together to write their wrongs.
The book is told from Gwen's POV and Griz a cat that belongs to Cousin Tannith. It's an interesting take on love, family relationships, finding your way in life, and who you find yourself ending up with. There is a lot of zany spells and fun random stuff that happens in this book. It's not what I expected when I read this, but I love how it did end.
Thank you, Net Galley and Kensington Books for the ARC for an honest review.

Was this review helpful?

DNF at 17%. I’m not so lucky lately with books…I stopped caring at all after the first couple of chapters. Boring plot, boring characters and that says it all about this book. Some reviews state this book is funny. Well I don’t know about that, maybe the story is funny but i didn’t reach that point in the story.

Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for my copy.

Was this review helpful?

If you liked Sabrina the Teenage Witch, you'll enjoy this book. It had witchy sitcom vibes, and was a great read for when your brain needs a break. The characters were fun, and the integration of the familiar's perspective was a part I surprisingly kept smiling at. A series with these characters would be cute and endearing, so I look forward to seeing what happens.

Was this review helpful?

I totally loved this book. I've already recommended it to multiple friends and added it to my amazon wishlist for later purchase because I'd like to have a physical copy on my shelf! Will definitely be watching for more from Elizabeth Bass.

Was this review helpful?

The magic, the secret witchcraft, crazy aunt, and lost friend's husband in between? Isn't it sounds awesome?

This book is such a page-turner that I just read it in one evening. Full of humor (black one as well), great dialogues, and twist plots that make me smile laugh out laugh, and cry at the same time.

It is kinda like the Hocus Pocus movie so it is totally my vibe, so it was so enhjoyable to read.

In fact? It is my 5/5 and Im looking forward to more books like this one in particular

Was this review helpful?

Quirky characters with constant mis-adventures made this lighthearted comedy a delight to read. 100% fun!

I loved the three cousins that were all non-practicing witches. Non-practicing due to a ban on the family from the witches council that forbid them from practicing the craft. It hardly seems to matter though as when life gets crazy and the cousins are feeling the stress, the craft has a mind of its own and spells come out helter-skelter. And the hilarity ensues....

I'm hoping this is a start of a series as I'd love to follow these characters around a bit more.

Thank you to #KensingtongBooks and #NetGalley for this ARC. All opinions expressed are my own.

Was this review helpful?

I loved this book. I finished this in a day because I loved all these characters so much. I’m sincerely hoping this becomes a series because I can’t imagine not “knowing” what these characters are up to anymore.

Was this review helpful?

A Letter to Three Witches is one of those books that I read in one sitting. I loved it, loved and loved it some more.


If you think that the story will go around the nasty little witch you meet in the first chapter, you are very much mistaken. If you think that those three witches mentioned in the title of the book will go down, you are very much mistaken yet again.

Turning your own husband into a rabbit only for your aunt to turn it into a toad or turning a toad in one of the most talented wizards in the universe are just some of the things three witches: cousins get up to in this book.

A Letter to Three Witches is a story of revelations, forgivness, ephiphanies and paybacks (and they are bitches). It is a lesson the one is to never pretend to be someone else, even for safety sake.

The more you lie to yourself, the more you pretend to be something else, the more you hide your talents and your purpose, the stronger fire burns inside of you. That fire can either burn you or explode everything around you. It’s your choice to make.

I absolutely loved the dynamic of the narration in this book, the characters and relationships between them. The long-forgotten sad aunt is the best.

I marked this book as ‘romcom’ on Goodreads. And it is. It is about love lost and love found, love betrayed and love won. It is about life.

And yeah, the nasty witch has a cat, a wonderful black cat. You can trust me, no matter what happens to the witch, the cat won’t be harmed.

Witches’ honour.

Was this review helpful?

While the premise of this book seemed super fun, I just couldn't get into it. Perhaps it's me, perhaps it was the writing, but there was nothing that kept me interested enough to finish the book. I got about 35% into it (which I feel is more than a fair chance) before I DNFed it. It had so much potential. But it wasn't for me.

Was this review helpful?

Thank you NetGalley and Kensington Books for the chance of reading this lovely and fun story. The book is hilarious, entertaining, quick to read. I’m giving this story three stars because I really enjoyed reading it, but I feel the plot was all over the place, so it got me confused so many times. that I had to put it down because I got bored.

Was this review helpful?

Thanks to the author, Kensington Books and Netgalley for allowing me to review this ARC with honesty.

The story is based on a family of witches. Witches that are forbidden to use magic due to something that happened in the past with a family member causing devastation. Now all members of the family are careful never to touch or even look at magic. Three cousins find however that they can't seem to get away from it as a fourth shakes their world with each letter and a promise to shake their lives up.

Gwen, Trudy and Milo are now in a race to fix what magic is threatening to out them with.

This story was an entertaining and funny read. Watching as the three cousins run around and try to piece together their cousin's taunt about ruining one of their relationships causes more funny mayhem then I ever expected.

If there is another book, I would love to read their next adventure. That and reading more about Griz and his hilarious commentary.

My Rating: 🌟🌟🌟🌟

Was this review helpful?

Thankyou Netgalley for providing me a free copy of this book in exchange for a honest review of the book

3 stars

This book was full of witches and spells and could interest regular fantasy reader.
This book unfortunately couldn't catch much of my attention.

Was this review helpful?

Once in a while I find a gem of a book on NetGalley, and this is one of them! Enchantingly funny, I couldn't help cackling every few pages. Really enjoyed it!

Was this review helpful?

This was a short, fun and light hearted read! Definitely a great novel to escape into an exciting and well described new world. I really enjoyed the characters and the family dynamic but the magic didn’t play as big of a part in the storyline as I expected.

Was this review helpful?

When cousins Gwen, Milo, and Trudy all receive a letter from Tannith, the woman who was raised with Gwen as her “sister”, stating that she was leaving town to move to New York but was taking one of their men with them, none of the cousins knew what to do. Was it going to be Laird, Trudy’s long-time husband? Brett, Milo’s boyfriend who was currently running for town mayor? Or Daniel, Gwen’s boyfriend that she lives with?
With the three trying to find out what’s really going on, they learn about accidental magic, watchers, they’re family history, and what happened to poor Aunt Esme and her boyfriend Odin.
This was a different type of tale. It had things I hadn’t heard of in a witchy book before, and from the blurb, I thought it would be a great book. This just didn’t quite hit the mark for me.
There were parts of the book that was just boring. I would put the book down for days at a time, and the only reason I picked it back up was because I owed a review.
Now as you know there is more than just my opinion. I’m sure there are many people who thought this story was great, I just wasn’t one. This book just didn’t hit with me, and that’s the reason for the 3 stars.
*I received this story from the publisher and Netgalley and this is my honest and voluntary review.

Was this review helpful?

This just wasn’t the book for me. I was really drawn to the cover and the description but the actual reading experience just fell flat for me.

Was this review helpful?

When romance problems cause their powers to go crazy a trio of Witches risk serious trouble with the Grand Council can they gain control of love and magic before it's too late.

I was completely immersed in this story I loved it. A laugh out loud cosy lighthearted witchy read. I loved the characters and felt invested in their story. A very entertaining read.

Thank you to NetGalley and Kensington Books for an advance copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.

Was this review helpful?

I wanted to love this so much. I really really did. The first time I read it, I put it down after the first 5 chapters and didn't pick it back up until I had to. It was a struggle to get into it. I can't put my finger on what it was for me... I think maybe I just didn't like the main character, Gwen... Honestly, if we replace all the characters with ones from other books and such I like, I might enjoy this book. The storyline of being forbidden to use magic and learning how to use it to save XYZ is just overdone at this point.


This will be an excellent read for someone who hasn't read every single witch novel they can get their hands on like me. I just felt like this was very similar to many books I have read before in my childhood. This is a great modern take on a bewitch and practical magic for a newer reader.

Was this review helpful?

Three cousins in a small town. A fourth ‘cousin’ raised as a sister, but more like The Good Son. Maybe not as evil. But definitely an angry troublemaker.

The Letter is written to all three cousins by the raised-as-a-sister Tannith. In the letter, she threatens to run off with the significant other of one of the three cousins. Who will it be? The letter sets off a zany chain of events in small town Zenobia.

The three cousins all have innate magic, but mostly don’t practice it due to a ban enforced by the magical authorities on an ancestor and his descendants. But magic happens. Sometimes accidentally, sometimes on purpose. Let’s just say that the cousins could use some Hogwarts education.

Without the witch factor, this would be called a farce. If anything can go wrong, it goes absurdly wrong.

It is the accidental events that are hilarious. A man turned into a rabbit. A cupcake that makes you sleepy or horny. Each one results in bigger and bigger catastrophes for the three witches. At the same time, they are learning more about their heritage and exactly who they are. And because of Tannith’s letter, the cousins’ relationships go through the ringer. Hopefully they will come out better than ever.

Told mostly from cousin Gwen’s point of view, occasionally, the familiar cat, Grizelda, gets to claim center stage.

A Letter to Three Witches is an enchanting, light-hearted romp. Charming, likable characters and familiars. Though….I may not be eating a cupcake for a while.

Through Netgalley, the publisher provided a copy of this book in exchange for my honest review.

Was this review helpful?