I absolutely adored Sirena and her story! I always find the "Groundhog Day" concept to be so interesting and for this book to have a full month revisit, I couldn't wait to see how it played out. I enjoyed seeing the sisters show up for each other and watching their side stories continue on the pages, however with that said, this story can be a standalone story as Sirena and Gus have their own unique story. Thank you to Forever Pub for an advanced copy! All thoughts and opinions are my own!

Sirena Caraway makes a wish to fix her life - and then wakes up in an unexpected Groundhog Day-esque repeat of October. Something new with her October redo? Working with Gus Dearworth, magician and new to town historian.

I found Sirena and Gus’ story swoonworthy and engaging. They both needed to find something within themselves during the October redo, and it was so enjoyable to read. The audiobook was also great, thanks to superb narration by Marissa Hampton & Christopher Hampton. I highly recommend this sweet and spicy romcom! I Received an advanced reading copy, receipt of which did not impact my review.

This was...fine. That's about all I can say.

I went into this expecting to love it. The cover is cute, I love fall vibes, and it just looks cozy!

I love the magic in this book! We love a little witchy business and a slow burn. I can see how people could love it, but it was just all right for me. It won't be living rent-free in my mind.

I just don't think these types of books are for me. I didn't feel any particular connection to the characters and the world just feels so unclear and underdeveloped. There's also too many details and explanations on things that just don't need to be explained in such depth.

I received this book for free from netgalley for an honest review. Thank you for the opportunity.
Pumpkin spice and everything nice this book had it all including a diverse cast of characters I highly recommend it.

I absolutely love this series. I cannot get enough of this group of witches.

Sirena and Gus were so relatable. They were constantly living up to expectations put on them by other people, rather than living for themselves and the expectations they set for themselves that were obtainable. Their slow friendship and quest to find themselves amongst their friends and family who knew their own path was refreshing.

I think the Freya Grove witches are such a fun group to read about and dropped right back into the setting so quickly and couldn't get over just how fun and inclusive the community is. I'm still in awe of this installation.

Book: Deja Brew
Author: Celestine Martin
Rating: 4/5 stars

From the title to the actual story, Deja Brew is such a fun and magical fall book.
Deja Brew follows the main character, ex-celebrity chef and witch Sirena Caraway, as she makes a wish at the end of October for a second chance to fix her life after so many things have gone wrong in it lately. After she makes the wish, she wakes up the next morning and quickly comes to the realization that she is repeating the entire month of October over again! She then meets the MMC, Gus Dearworth, whose magic has left her spellbound. He secretly has feelings for Sirena, and he may be the only person that can also fix her powers. This leads to living the month over again, but with a chance at romance, more second chances than first imagined, and new fall adventures that the two of them get to enjoy together.

October is my favourite month of the year - so I thoroughly enjoyed getting to read about all of the fall adventures that Sirena and Gus took part in. It was also enjoyable to read about how their working together to help each other slowly blossomed into both of them realizing how deep their feelings fora each other were. Additionally, the world-building and magic realism were engaging and also an enjoyable element to the story.

Deja Brew is the third book in a series, and I do plan on going back and reading the other two books in the future.
I would recommend Deja Brew to anyone looking for something to read to finish this fall season with a cozy and spellbinding read.

Thank you to Forever (Grand Central Publishing) and NetGalley for the opportunity to read an ARC of Deja Brew.

I feel like the best way to ring in fall is to read the latest book from Martin’s Elemental Love series. This time she offers us Groundhog’s Day but make it Halloween.

Sirena’s witchy powers have gone all wonky and it’s thrown her off. She’s unemployed, lost her mojo for cooking, feeling glum. After making a wish, she wakes up the next morning to find that she’s reliving the entire month of October again. And this time she gets to flirt with magician, Gus who’s going through his own thing. Magic is in the air, as is a budding romance as these two spend more time together, and discover they can help each other through their crises.




This was such a cozy, comforting read. I love that this town of Freya Grove openly embraces its magical residents. There’s so much cuteness here. Sirena and Gus are adorable. I also liked the underlying theme of personal fulfillment. Family and community are also important elements in these stories.

Highlights:
* Magical small town & romance
* Second chances
* Family, community
* Family legacy

I’m so grateful that I got to buddy read this with @what_manda_reads It’s always fun to share a good book with a friend! This one’s out tomorrow, so grab your fall beverage of choice and a blanket, light a fall-scented candle, and cozy up with this sweet read that’ll brighten your day!

Thank you @readforeverpub for my ARC in exchange for an honest review.

Sirena, a former celebrity chef is struggling with her cooking powers when she runs into former reality star, Gus. Gus agrees to help Sirena fix her powers if she helps him with a magical cookbook. In the process they both develop feelings and have to decide what comes next for them.
The third installment of the Freya Grove series has all the cute, magical vibes I’ve come to love from the rest of the series. This is the sweetest witchy romance with top tier banter. The reality TV star twist made this a fun one. I loved the way Marissa Hampton and Christopher Hampton narrated the audiobook. They made the characters really come to life!
Thanks to Forever Publishing, Hachette Audio, and NetGalley for the advance copies.

Sweet and spicy. Perfect book for fall season.Sirena Caraway is a kitchen witch who was a celebrity chef until the magic seemed to leave her cooking. And Gus Dearworth, a famous magician who left the family act and retreated to study history. Together they stumble through Sirena's wish to relive October, make better decisions and rectify her mistakes. Whimsical and cute.

This was the perfect cozy read for fall! The author, Celestine, is AMAZING and was so kind! "Deja Brew" was written beautifully, and I immediately fell in love with the characters. Some books don't draw me in immediately, but I was extremely interested within the first few pages of "Deja Brew". I also really appreciate the body positivity throughout the book, as most of the books I read are comprised of unrealistic beauty standards. I will be reading more from this author!

Sirena Caraway is struggling. She is a kitchen witch and a masterful chef, but her kitchen alchemy is gone. She just bumps into things, starts fires, and makes food lacking in flavor. She feels lost, so she heads back home to Freya Grove, New Jersey. She gets back in time to enjoy some of the pumpkin spice of October, but after a botched job interview and an embarrassing Halloween, Sirena just wants a do-over.

She goes to the tea cabinet and finds a Wish Tea that her sister concocted, and she decides to make herself a cup. She wishes for another chance. And when she wakes up the next morning, she finds that October has reset itself, and Sirena has the whole month to figure out how to get her magic back and try that job interview again.

Gus Dearworth finds himself back in Freya Grove also. Taking a break from his family’s magic show. He’s a gifted magician, but his marriage just ended very publicly, and he needed some time to heal. So he moved back home and took a temporary job with the Historical Society. And when he bumps into Sirena, who he knew from high school, he had an idea.

The Historical Society had some cookbooks that needed someone with expertise to look them over and give them some love. Sirena agrees to take a look at them, and she is bewitched by the old recipes from the witchy cooks who wrote the books. She spends some of her free time at the Historical Society reading over the old cookbooks and wanting to try out some of the recipes. But she also wants to do something she hasn’t done in a long time. Sirena wants to have some fun. She decides to spend some of her second October enjoying the spooky season, spending time with her sisters, and savoring the town’s autumn activities.

But spending time with Gus is quickly becoming one of Sirena’s favorite things. She can’t deny her growing feelings for him, and he seems to feel the same. But what’s going to happen when her time travel wish is over, and November starts up like normal? Will it make a difference that she wished for a rewind, or will she be able to go on as usual, moving towards her dreams, and towards Gus?

Deja Brew is Celestine Martin’s third book in her Elemental Love series, each book about one of the Caraway sisters. Each book works as a stand-alone, but it’s easy to fall for these sisters, so one book from the series may not be enough. This one combines some entertaining supernatural elements with a good, old-fashioned second chance love story. How else can you have someone get lost in a corn maze, because a magic spell made it impossible for her to get out without some magic of her own (or of her boyfriend’s own)?

I listened to Deja Brew on audio, and I thought it was charming. Told in alternating viewpoints and narrated by both Marissa Hampton and Christopher Hampton, the audio book offers these characters’ journeys with warmth and joy. I thought both narrators did a good job of bringing this world to life, and bringing these two people to the love they were seeking.

I enjoyed Deja Brew a lot. I hadn’t read the other two books in this series, but I will go back because I liked this universe so much. This one does get pretty spicy from time to time, but that’s well balanced with smart writing and engaging characters. This is a great read for fall, or for any time of year that you’re missing spooky season.

Egalleys for Deja Brew were provided by Forever, and a copy of the audio book was provided by Hachette Audio, both through NetGalley, with many thanks.

This is a review of the audiobook.

Unfortunately this one was not for me i found the story hard to get into and didnt care for the characters at all. Just think the story wasnt for me

Deja Brew is a fun Autumn romance with all the cozy, small town festivities and friends; and a dash of magic. This is #3 in the series, I read this as a stand-alone. It was fine, It can be read that way, I could just tell there was more to some of the other characters. This is a great book to cozy up with, easy to read and has that “Hallmark movie” vibe.

Ex-celebrity chef Sirens Caraway has not had the October she was hoping for. She didn't land the job she truly needed, her cooking powers have gone haywire, and to add insult to injury she embarrassed herself at the towns Halloween party. When she goes to bed that night she makes a wish that takes her back to the beginning of the month. Her redo starts out on a positive note when she runs into Gus Dearworth whose magic has her in awe. Gus comes to town hoping to start over himself by changing his reputation into a positive one. Follow along as the two make a deal in hopes of being able to help one another. Will love get in the way or will it bring the two together in the end.

This is a deliciously cozy, perfectly autumnal seasonal romance, and I loved pretty nearly every minute of it. It definitely rose to the top of the pile of the ghostly/Halloween-ish romance books this year, to say the least.

✨ Review ✨ Deja Brew by Celestine Martin; Narrated by Marissa Hampton; Christopher Hampton

Thanks to Hachette Audio, Forever Publishing, and #netgalley for the gifted advanced copy/ies of this book!

Note: I started reading this without really realizing it was the third in a series, so this may have impacted my read!

This book starts with a Groundhog Day-style restart to October, giving Sierra a chance to do it again. Her first go-round of October kind of sucked -- injuries, impaired cooking / magical powers, and just general misery. She vows to make better choices the second time around.

She works with Gus, magician, former reality star, and now hottie town historian, and makes a pact to have more fun. He agrees to "tutor" her in fun, and she agrees to work for the local historical society to try to interpret magical cooking texts.

This book is FULL of fall fun - festivals, witchy things, and all things pumpkin spice, and I loved these pieces. On the flip side, the book felt like it dragged on too long and I just got a little bit bored. tldr: fun but too long!

🎧 the audio narration was fantastic - I loved how the narrators embodied their characters. would listen to these narrators again!

⭐️⭐️⭐️ (3.25 stars)
Genre: contemporary/fantasy romance
Setting: magical world sort of adjacent to our real world
Length: 9 hrs and 55 mins
Pub Date: Oct 1, 2024

Read this if you like:
⭕️ pumpkin spice and cider galore
⭕️ witchy magical fall fun
⭕️ friends to lovers
⭕️ small town romance

It’s official, Celestine Martin is a witch at Freya Grove because the way she writes characters and their chemistry is unreal. Deja Brew is a third installment in this urban-fantasy, cozy series and I think I loved it even more than past books. The language used in this book elicits so much nostalgia and those “feel good” fall feelings. Not much else to be said besides the coziest of feelings come from these books.

Sirena is a kitchen witch and she has some strict rules for being a kitchen witch that were passed down by her grandmother. It's those abilities that allow her to brew a wish tea. Her wish allows her to re-live her October in the hopes that she'll get the job she wants. She's been out of the work force taking care of family and her last boss stole her recipes so she's not in a good place. Hopefully, allowing herself some more time will let her correct her mistakes. What she doesn't expect is that she gets to spend more time with Gus.

August Dearworth is a former reality show star. He was a showy magician and reveled in the spotlight. But he loved and lost. Now, he's a historian and surprisingly happy to be in the Grove. He's drawn to Sirena like no one else and the two are magic together. But it's an overwhelming magic and both of them are a little hesitant to jump into a relationship.
What I enjoyed about this book is that we go past the date of the first wish. Often, we get to the day of the wish and everything has worked itself out. Sirena and Gus are going to have an extra couple of months in this story.
I heard about this book on a podcast and asked for it from NetGalley. I was lucky enough to get a copy and, while it didn't hit quite as nicely for me (not all of the story parts melded for me), I really did enjoy most of this book.

Three and a half stars
This book came out October 1, 2024
ARC kindly provided by Forever (Grand Central Publishing) and NetGalley
Opinions are my own

Thank you so much, NetGalley and Forever for the arc of Deja Brew. I was insanely excited for this one due to the premise, the cover, and the snippets I have seen on social media. Unfortunately, I wasn't able to stick with the book and did not get to enjoy it. I feel there were many characters that we had to know of and not a lot of progress on the book. I DNF'd 55% through, as it was the same thing occurring and no progress moving forward. I think if I had read the other books in the series prior to this one, I may have enjoyed it more as it seems we need to know the other characters and they play a big role in this story. I appreciate the arc, and I am sorry I could not finish it.

This book includes:
- Slow burn
- Friends to lovers
- Black romance
- Fall vibes
- Paranormal romance
- Plus size
- Kitchen witch fmc
- Magician mmc