I really loved this book. Our heroine Danica is a witch hidden in plain sight at her Fix It Witches shop, that she runs with her cousin Clementine (Clem). Danica has quite the memorable meet-cute with Titus, a baker in town at Sugar Daddies. Love the store names btw!

From there, they gradually get to know each other and open up to each other. I understand Danica's hesitance to falling for a mundane, so she tries really hard not to fall for him. Spoiler: doesn't work.

Titus is also a precious cinnamon roll, even with a nickname of cinnaman. He's bisexual and thinks he may be cursed as a thirty two year old virgin. He's also adorable and reads romance books.

I loved the evolution of their relationship throughout this book and their struggles (both individually and as a couple). As they open up to each other, I loved that they both listened well and showed true caring. I really enjoyed seeing their family dynamics throughout the book as well. I will definitely be checking out the second book in the series.

The audiobook was great as well. Even though there was only one narrator, the voices were distinct. I received this audiobook ARC from Netgalley in exchange for my honest opinion.

This was a fun read! I enjoyed the witchy aspects of the book, and wished there was a bit more exploration of witch society and the magical possibilities. The romcom element of the book left a few things to be desired for me. I didn't really buy Titus and Danica's relationship, but I'm also not a huge fan of the soulmate trope. It felt a little to instantaneous and based more on sexual attraction to each other than on any specific commonalities in their interests and personalities. I also really struggled with the way all the witches in the book treated Titus as a non-magical person. I appreciated that the grandmother's bigotry was called out on the page, but felt Danica's mother's transgression (cursing Danica's soulmate to be unable to have sex with anyone except her) was honestly a pretty vile disregard for his autonomy and wished it had been treated a little less like a funny joke. I also thought it was strange that Danica never actually tells Titus she's a witch, and it left me feeling as though their relationship was based on less than total honesty in the end. I enjoyed the writing style and worldbuilding, but this one wasn't really for me.

A bisexual baker - gorgeous in looks, successful in business but falls short in love. Enter Dankia Waterhouse, a modern day witch looking to avoid romance at all costs, and literal sparks fly.

This book was a good mix of witch-y wonders, family drama, and bedroom heat!

Thank you to Sourcebooks Casablanca for releasing a ARC of this title to listen to. It was an enjoyable storyline with great character development. The relationship between Titus and his sister was heartwarming with a bite. Additionally I loved the push and pull within Titus and Danika's relationship... Swoon worthy! The right amount of deliciously tantalizing romance and arousal inducing moments. This didn't disappoint.

I'm going to join the chorus here and say that I should have loved Witch Please and instead I found it to be "fine." The setup is fun! A bisexual baker who's chronically unlucky in love and the fix-it witch next door who's sworn off relationships fall for each other. If this had been a sweet novella, I would have loved it, but apparently there wasn't really enough plot here to keep the story going for a whole novel without Aguirre throwing in an evil grandmother and an inadvertently harmful mother. (There were lots of strong female relationships in the book so it didn't feel like a "women hate women" kind of story.)
When the entire conflict could be resolved by a single conversation between mother and daughter--who supposedly talk to each other regularly--any time in the last twenty years, the book feels like a bit of a letdown.
In case you're wondering, this book is spicier than I expected. Several sex scenes starting well before the halfway point. Titus is a virgin at the beginning of it all, but he has many firsts by the end.
Witch Please was fine, but the couple in the next book, Boss Witch, were in this one and I'm looking forward to their story. Aguirre's books are hit or miss for me, so I'm going to keep my hopes up and see what we get.
Audio Notes: The narrator, Ava Lucas, does her best with what she's given, but parts of the story don't translate well to audio. Aguirre's characters do a lot of inner monologuing, with frequent asides that, on audio, sound a lot like their voiced speech. Though Lucas pitches her voice differently when the characters are thinking instead of speaking, it's so frequent that it threw me out of the story several times because I sometimes couldn't tell whether the character was professing their love or confessing their truths out loud or just thinking it.

This book started out really cute and enjoyable but started to go downhill fast.

I don't want to spoil anything, but lets just say there was some inner dialogue that made me cringe so hard; especially inner dialogue from the main male character Titus. The guy seriously had me thinking "wtf" multiple times.

There were also some things I assume was supposed to be seen as cute or romantic that came off really awkward. This book just didn't work for me at all, which is a shame because it started out so well.

With Halloween around the corner, this adorable cover caught my eye immediately. The premise seems like the perfect seasonal fit for my mood.
I have been in a fantasy mood lately and with that I want to see more of a plot and setting development through the world building. In this case, I would have loved to have Ann explore more of the witchy world, their trials and triumphs. Unfortunately, it takes a backseat to the hot and heavy romance between Danica and Titus.
I would think anyone looking for a relationship-centric book that happens to feature a MC that is a witch would enjoy this book.
The narrator, Ava Lucas, did a good job and kept me listening even though my expectations were different for the content. Her voice provided an easy escape for the read.
Thank you to Dreamscape Media and NetGalley for the alc. All thoughts in this review are my own.

Witch Please is a cute and cozy small town romance centering on a baker named Titus and a techie witch called Danica. This book was billed as Gilmore Girls meets Practical Magic and I definitely got that vibe. My favorite parts of this book were those involving Danica, her cousin Clementine and the rest of their coven. I loved the small town they lived in and I could imagine the town perfectly. The different magic styles were interesting and I’d love to know more about the various types of witches.

I thought the narrator did a great job. Her voice was very pleasing to listen to and I enjoyed all of the different voice styles she used. It was easy to keep track of which character was which, something that isn’t always the case when I listen to audiobooks.

There were some parts that seemed a bit unnecessary to me and it took away from the story - an over abundance of random food descriptions, the make and model of Titus’ car, etc. It made the writing feel a little clunky at times and I felt it was unnecessary/distracting. The romance between the two characters also seemed very instalovey.

Even so, I can’t wait to read Clementine’s story next!

Thank you to Dreamscape media and NetGalley for this ALC.

DNF @ 35%. I try not to DNF the ARCs I receive, but this book was just very all over the place and I didn't care for any of the subplots. I wish this book was more focused on the male love interest, as I found him much more compelling. The romance didn't have enough chemistry for me to consider the rest of the subplots sludge worth mucking through.

This, the first of my witchy fall reads, was a pretty great time. I had some things that bugged me, but overall I'm glad I listened to the good reviews and gave it a shot.

Danica and her cousin Clementine run a witchy fix-it shop in a charming, cozy small town near Chicago. Witches are unknown to the mundane public (with the exception of witch-hunters, who are still a thing, apparently). Sparks fly immediately and literally when she meets baker Titus. Some complications: Due to a curse of the Waterhouse line of witches, she can't marry/commit permanently to a mundane lest she lose her magic. And Titus feels like he has a curse of his own. Due to a series of absolutely ridiculous occurrences, despite very much wanting to have sex, he has somehow made it to age thirty-two without doing so.

I loved the witchy worldbuilding, especially when we were with Danica's coven, and the family/found family elements, but there were some small moments that just didn't gel with me. Ultimately I'm able to look past them because that's just how Ann Aguirre's writing hits me usually, and I knew that going in. Two big things that still bug me even after finishing the book are the reason for the 3.5 star rating. Both are spoilers. But if you like fluffy romances with witchy magical vibes, this is a good book to check out. I listened to it super fast and it was a nice break from heavier more emotional fare I'd been reading. Will definitely be checking out book two.

[3.5 stars, rounded up]

Practical Magic meets Gilmore Girls...say no more, I'm in.

This adorably witchy rom-com was so good! We are introduced to Danica Waterhouse, who co-owns the Fix-It Witches Repair Shop with her cousin, Clementine, aka Clem. Clem and Danica have been raised as sisters and after Danica's messy breakup, the cousins make a pact to protect their hearts and just have fun without the constant feedback from the Waterhouse matriarchs. There has been a family feud that the cousins are constantly having to navigate between their mothers and their Gram. Gram will not tolerate the Waterhouse women being involved in mundanes.

Then in walks mundane, Titus Winnaker, into Danica's life. He owns the Sugar Daddy's Bakery just a few blocks down from Fix-It Witches and is dealing with his own family woos. He has had a lifetime of bad luck in love and he is a 32-year-old virgin, that is convinced he's cursed. Sparks fly instantly between Titus and Danica, but things are never as simple as they should be.

I thought this book was fun and had just the right amount of turmoil to keep me wanting more and had me constantly rooting for our main characters to be together. I understand being caught in the middle of family drama, so I could definitely relate (even though my family isn't quite as magical ;))

Danica Waterhouse co-owns the Fix-It Witches, a magical tech repair shop, with her cousin Clem. One day, Titus (or CinnaMan as Danica calls him) comes into the shop to request a service call on one of the ovens at his shop, Sugar Daddy's bakery. Danica fixes the oven in just a couple of minutes and it takes even less time than that for sparks to start flying between the two. The only problem: Danica is a witch and she has been warned by her gran all of her life that if she were to ever fall in love with a mundane, then she would lose her magical abilities. So, of course, Danica fights the attraction at first. But it seems the harder Danica fights it, the more in love she becomes. What is a witch to do?
This is a fun fantasy rom-com that has an abundance of extra steamy sex scenes, lots of fun banter, and lovable characters. I thoroughly enjoyed this entertaining story, and I am already looking forward to the next book in the series.

What a fresh take on technology and magic! I love the small business scenes and the idea a coven is pretending to be a book club. The narrator has a nice voice and feels just right for the story. Cinnabon Man is real boyfriend material and, all of the characters have flaws. However, the book has problems. I wish the witch hunter had a serious introduction instead, the pacing slows for the sex scenes and a separate off-screen romance. The grandmother and the hunter are both left for the second book to deal with. While characters have flaws, any improvement is rushed or dropped. Overall, it's a cute, lighthearted book about family and relationships great for the Halloween season.

Unfortunately this book was a dnf for me. I just didn't like it and it wasn't for me. This is definitely for some people it just wasn't my style.

Titus is a baker with a horrible track in his love life, and when his oven breaks he hires Danica, a witch with an affinity for technology, to help him and the sparks start flying. Witches have been in hidding for centuries and mundanes can't know about their existence, so how can a relationship between them work?

I really liked the concept of this book and I liked seeing a main male character being bisexual and a virgin when books usually try to keep that for their female characters. It was a cute read and was fun, it kept me distracted during a flight and it is a light read to take a break from heavier books. I also appreciated Titus and Danica having separate lifes and issues besides their relationship, but I felt there was something missing to make this book jump from good to amazing.

I had a lot of fun with this book! I have had some luck with this author’s work in the past, although with another genre, so I was eager to give this romance a try. I found this audiobook easy to listen to for hours at a time. I am so glad that I decided to pick up this incredibly entertaining audiobook.

Danica is a witch. She has the ability to fix just about anything so she puts her skills to good use in the fix-it shop that she runs with her cousin. Titus runs a bakery just a couple of blocks from the Fix-It Witches shop and he stops in for some help when one of his ovens. These two are instantly drawn to each other and they have a lot of chemistry. There is one problem that might keep them apart – Danica will lose her magic if she marries a regular mortal. Danica is under intense pressure from her grandmother to get matched up with a man with magic but her mother just wants to see her happy.

I really liked the characters in this book. Danica and Titus were both dealing with some pretty big family issues. Seeing how they handled everything helped to develop their characters. I thought that they were a very good match and the chemistry between them was rather intense. I was invested in their relationship early on and really wanted to see them find a way to make it work. I also thought that the secondary characters were very well done and added a lot to the story.

Ava Lucas did a fantastic job with the narration. I thought that she did a phenomenal job with all of the character voices and added a lot of emotion to the story. I found her voice to be very pleasant and I had no problem listening for hours at a time. I think that this was the first time that I had the chance to listen to this narrator’s work but I hope to have the chance again soon.

I would recommend this book to others. I thought that this was a well-done romance with wonderful characters and just the right amount of magic mixed in. I look forward to reading more of this promising series.

I received a digital review copy of this audiobook from Dreamscape Media via NetGalley.

Heat Factor: She climbs him like a tree, so that’s fun...but I would have liked a little more communication beforehand
Character Chemistry: They were so not on the same page but also so into each other
Plot: So many drama shenanigans
Overall: Oof

Most important question: How does a woman (an only child) born after 1989 know about the 90s phenomenon of POG collections? Did little kids also collect POGs?

Housekeeping: I received this as an audiobook egalley. I have been struggling to read more than 250-ish page books, and audiobooks have been a brain-saver for me, so I was excited that this pretty well-hyped book was made available. Typically audiobook narration is too slow for me at 1x speed, so I listen at a speed that the voices still sound normal and not rushed. In this case I believe it was about 1.3x. The narrator was lovely! I have never heard Ava Lucas’s narration before, but her tempo and voices suited the narrative and were not distracting. Good narrators are a delight.

On to the book!

*As I wrote this review, it became more and more ranty. SorryNotSorry.

This is the type of heroine that really challenges me, and I will say that Aguirre presented Danica’s personality extremely consistently and in a manner that rings true. But she’s also a character who is trying to please everyone else at the expense of her own happiness and peace of mind, and, eventually, everyone else’s as well. I spent most of the book wanting to scream at Danica to make her own choices, set her own boundaries, and stop letting other people blame her for things that are 1. Not her fault and 2. Pretty natural. (Like, blaming people for inconveniently catching feelings is a totally shit thing to do, right?)

Danica’s feelings and choices might be understandable, but her treatment of Titus is (arguably) inconsiderate a lot of the time. I have no personal experience with this, but it seems to me that dating people need to be more upfront about communicating their expectations for dating and exclusivity. If this is not actually a problem that dating people have (seems unlikely because, hello, people), then maybe romance authors should stop using miscommunication about these expectations as a conflict point in their books.

ANYWAY, Danica has a ton of garbage floating around in her head, so it’s no wonder she lands where she does with Titus, but she never (never. NEVER.) discusses with Titus that she’s only interested in a fling. (Probably because she’s not only interested in a fling, she just feels like she has to be thanks to all the aforementioned GARBAGE.) So what does she do? She climbs him like a tree, has unprotected sex with him (But it’s fine because she knows that she doesn’t have to worry about pregnancy or disease because she’s a witch. Nevermind that he has no idea of any of that.) and then semi-ghosts him, stringing him along juuuuuust enough that he doesn’t quite realize he’s being ghosted, until he finds her on a date with another man. At which point he does, in fact, regret losing his virginity with her after all.

Danica, Danica, Danica. Danica has been dealing with all this witchy nonsense that made me immediately go, “Really, Danica?” but she’s been manipulated since childhood and I guess never asking a SINGLE QUESTION has ever occurred to her.

🧹Like. Yiiiiikes this whole witch community is really controlling in dystopian ways. Because if a witch tells anybody who isn’t a witch about witchiness, that witch’s memory will be wiped and the mundane person will be, like, vaporized or whatever. So that’s a thing.
🧹(But there are witch hunters? But that’s for the next book, which I’m really curious about even though I honest-to-god wanted to strangle Danica’s cousin, Clem, who falls for the witch hunter. Obviously.)
🧹And then on top of that, Danica’s grandmother is, like, an anti-mundane bigot and has been manipulating Danica and her cousin since they were children, which was totally gross. (As, I grant you, it was meant to be.) (She’s the reason that Danica was on that date with not-Titus.)
🧹Her cousin, who is like her sister (as we are told multiple times) and is supposed to be this great relationship in her life, gaslights her and makes her feel guilty for having pretty much any feelings at all, and piles on with opinions about how marrying a mundane would be betraying the sisterhood of their coven. (I was done with Clem when she volunteered to handle the witch hunter by herself during a coven meeting and then threw it back in Danica’s face as a burden she was being forced to deal with when she and Danica were fighting. Before that she was a brat. After that...)
🧹Speaking of Danica’s supposedly all-important coven sisterhood, it will abandon her if she marries a mundane? At least, this is what Danica believes and what Clem also thinks will happen if Danica chooses the wrong partner. What kind of sisterhood abandons a member like that? (If I’m being completely honest, I don’t think this would happen, as pretty much every member of the coven except for Clem was pretty awesome.) (But still.)
🧹And Danica feels so bad for her pathetic, magickless mother who pathetically married her mundane father for love and is extremely pathetic. Does she ever talk to her mother about anything involving their witchiness or her life choices? She. Does. Not. (Until it becomes useful to the plot, that is.)

What are you doing, Danica? Is this the life you want to be living?

Which, of course, is the whole point. Danica’s problem to overcome so that she can finally be happy and have the life she truly wants. But even though I knew this every step of the way, I still never got over feeling squicky about how Danica’s relationship with Titus was going.

Titus met Danica and thought, “She’s the one!” And it was totally adorable. He’s a bit of a sad sack himself, having been dumped by all of his previous partners before they ever got serious enough for anything (hence virgin status), so his being enamored of Danica so immediately is also a bit sad sackish. I suppose this is why we’re meant to excuse the way that Danica essentially uses Titus to meet her own needs without giving much thought to what he’s thinking or what his needs are? I don’t know. Things were going along okay in that dramatic, angsty, internal struggle based on a bunch of internalized B.S. sort of way, and then Danica and Titus had sex for the first time and instead of feeling like it was really hot (OMG they just can’t even wait to find a bed! Office chair sex, FTW!) I got squicked out and never fully recovered.

This book is probably best for readers who enjoy or prefer a heroine-centered story that’s mostly playful and who don’t overthink things.

I voluntarily read and reviewed a complimentary copy of this book. All thoughts and opinions are my own. We disclose this in accordance with 16 CFR §255.

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It's hard not to reach for a book titled "Witch Please" as the temperatures begin to drop, and we approach fall.

Love it or leave it--"Witch Please" is exactly what you would expect, a rom com with some light sorcery (very light). There are misunderstandings galore, and you often want to shake the characters and tell them to just talk to one another more openly. If you are looking for a light fall read, look no further.

I will say--I wasn't thrilled with their hot take that being a member of a Rotary Club is a personal low point. For a book that is trying to make the "Nissan Leaf" hot, I would expect a little more support of an organization that has shifted some of their focus to supporting the environment. As a rotarian, I felt obligated to drop a star.

3.75 Stars!

Witch Please was a fun rom-com with a meet-cute, instant attraction-at-first-sight, and an endearing love story that followed. It was the perfect fall read (or listen) to curl up with a pumpkin spice latte and a flannel blanket with!!

According to Danica‘s gram, dating a mundane/human is a betrayal to their kind and can make a witch lose her magic. So what happens when the hottest baker in town who makes her favorite cinnamon rolls appears in her “Fix It Witches” store one day in need of help?

Spoiler alert - All kinda sparks fly!

Titus is a sweet, bisexual virgin hero who has been burned one too many times to have have any faith in trying anymore. Danica has no interest in commitment and is just looking for a fling.

My favorite parts of this book were when Danica started to have some feelings and kept wanting to use her witchy powers to put a hex on Titus so that he would stop liking her. Like, heart flutters over here!! Intense Practical Magic vibes.

I received an audio ARC for review and really enjoyed the narrator. I always prefer dual narrations for alternating POVs but this narrator did a great deliver for both the female and male lead characters.

The sex scenes, though hot, seemed kind of off. I don't know if it was the narration, the fact that I was listening to them (which is always a little funny), or just the way they were written, but they seemed clinical to me. All the right words were there, but there was no heat or emotion to them. Just stilted.

Also, the ending was not fully wrapped up and the execution came off rushed and kind of sloppy which is a shame because the plot was strong.

I will definitely be interested in reading book 2 in this series, Boss Witch because a witch/witch hunter forbidden romance is right up my alley!

Thank you to NetGalley and Dreamscape Media who provided me with an audio ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review.

I finished this audiobook and my first thought was “Wait that’s it?!” I didn’t want this book to end. I needed more!

Definitely not your typical sweet romance I thought I was getting. There are some really sexy scenes. Like REALLY sexy. The relationships between all the characters are very well written and relatable. The magical aspect is not over the top like you find in some books which I very much appreciated.

I sincerely hope this is the first in a series because there’s so much more potential for all the storylines. And now I want cinnamon rolls.

Charming Sweet Rom-Com with witchy sparks and yummy cinnamon rolls. Sexy Small-town HEA, 2 POV. Narration was fantastic. Looking forward to more in this series.