4.5✨



Well, I love the way Laura Thalassa writes, I've already read The Bargainer and The Four Horsemen, and I loved them!✨
So, I needed to read her new book too, apart from that cover and that synopsis?! GOT ME.🤲🏼

From the beginning it catches you, I swear, Laura's way of writing is captivating, and the story? Even more!!🤍

A girl who loses her short-term memory every time she uses her magic, wants to join a coven but is missing 2 things, so she takes a trip, and there she finds those two things, or rather, someone, but that someone, he thinks that she is his wife who cursed him thousands of years ago and now wants revenge...
Well what can go wrong?🫣😏

Memnon, omg, I love you and I hate you, he's a character… interesting, all that attitude omg seriously, I can't. Everything he says and does, did I already say I can't?!!. 😏I already want to know him more because, this is not all.
Selene, I love it, it frustrated me a bit, because well, I don't blame her, being close to memnon, I would be like that too hahaha, 🤣but after that ending, I want to KNOW MORE! 👀 besides, the familiar animal? Nero, a panther? I LOVE YOU🥹

Ok, I don't want to say more but you have to read this!
Obsessed/possessive boy, witches/sorcerers/wolves ,enemies to lovers to enemies to lovers? Haha, 🫣hot scenes, ✨Wife, My Queen, Empress, est amage✨ beautiful animal familiar, and more!


Thank you Netgalley for this arc

I was given an Arc copy of this book in exchange for my honest opinion.

Wow! Wow! Wow! I knew this book was going to be good but this blew my expectations out of the water!

Selene is a struggling witch who loses a memory every time she uses magic. So she sets off on a magical quest! Not only does she find her familiar (a freaking panther) but she finds a long lost spell guarded tomb in the middle of the Amazon! So she does what any normal person would do…she opens the dang crypt! Turns out it’s a 2000 year old hottie who thinks she’s his mate.

I read this in one day because I couldn’t put it down!! I wish I could give it more than 5 stars!

I utterly loved this book. I read it in one day and could not put it down. It was a 5/5 star read and my favourite book that I’ve read this year. I have read this author many times and she is one of my favourites. I loved everything about this book, there was witches, magic, a magic quest, her witches familiar being a panther named Nero, as well as unearthing a tomb full of secrets and mystery. I really liked Selene and Memnon and can’t wait for there story to continue. Bewitched is the first book in a new series and I cant wait for the next book. Thank you to NetGalley, Sourcebooks Bloom Books and Laura Thalassa for an opportunity to read this book in exchange for my honest thoughts and opinions.

Selene wants to be accepted into Henbane, an academy for witches. She must connect with her powers via a quest and was attack during her plane. She finds herself lost in the jungle and encounters an ancient evil. She manages to escape but was accused of murders at the academy....

A very interesting world with complicated characters. It's very detailed and intricated. Selene is a likable and interesting character. I like the plot and it keeps me wondering what's going to happen. Memnon is intriguing and makes the story very suspenseful.

Thanks to the publisher for the arc.

Netgalley ARC Review

Selene is a witch who loses her memories every time she uses her magic. It’s been her dream to join the Henbane Coven, a sort of magical sorority/college for witches but in order to be accepted she needs to go in a magical quest and she needs a familiar. When she decides to go to South America, her plane is nearly downed by a mysterious magical force that is calling to her and she ends up waking up a powerful sorcerer who she may have cursed in a past life but she can’t remember.

I really liked this world. Witches, Werewolves and Magic exist alongside humans and Witches have their own schools.

Selene is an unreliable narrator due to her constantly losing her memories every time she uses magic. Memnon is a 2000 year old sorcerer and Selene’s past life husband. He insists she cursed them both and he wants revenge but he also loves her.

The spice level is a 3.5 with lots of edging but no actual sex.

Memnon is very much a villain much like Montes in Thalassa’s The Queen of All That Dies series who loves the heroine but isn’t above betraying her or destroying her world to get what he wants from her.

The ending has a major cliffhanger and I’m already dying for book two. I hope Selene makes Memnon grovel.

I am going to be completely honest and say that as a mood reader as well as someone who often struggles to get into more difficult fantasy, this was probably not the book for me. The premise seemed incredibly interesting, and I had not heard of this author before but wanted to give this book a try. I was unaware of some of the other books this author had written, but upon looking into them found that many of those who have very similar taste in books to my own did not enjoy those. I feel that I honestly just was not the right audience for this book, and hope it finds its correct audience in the future.