TYSM to the publisher, NetGalley, and Bridget Morrissey for this e-ARC!

I LOVED this book!!! Darcy and Anya were so cute! Their personalities meshed so well together and their chemistry was amazing to read about! They’re totally super cute.

I loved how the characters sounded like ACTUAL teenagers and not what people think teenagers should sound like. The writing flowed and was all around excellent.

Anya, a young witch, is in need of a protector in order to be fully initiated into her family coven on her 18th birthday, which is fast approaching after Halloween. Darcy is a small town artist and daughter of the head of all things Halloween in the town of Fableview. Anya is running out of town and tells her family that Darcy will be her protector, yet Darcy has no idea what Anya has signed her up for nor that Anya is in fact a witch!

This book was a cozy read for me during the summer months. Not only did the story follow Halloween season/the month of October in a small town but also themes such as leaving home, finding yourself in the midst of chaos, and building a support system. The story itself was an easy read and was moderately paced from beginning to end. I was able to read it in one sitting and found the differing dynamic between Darcy and Anya to be inviting, interesting, and dynamic throughout the story.

If you like the following tropes/ideas, you will love this book:
1. Queer Love
2. Young Witch x Small Town Mortal
3. Tight Knit Communities
4. Sunshine character x Grumpy Sunshine character
5. Destiny vs Personal Choice
6. Leaving Home/Finding Yourself

A special thank you to Bridget Morrissey, Random House Children’s Books, Delacorte Romance, and Netgalley for an eARC in exchange for an honest review.

This takes place in a small town full of Halloween charm all year round. Bringing magic into the mundane—fake or not the town is rich in history living tourists coming back each year.

Darcy, the sunshine character who lived in Fableview her whole life and used to helping out with the autumn rush. But with college approaching she can’t help but think about the possibility of picking a place out of town, a place she could find herself.

Anya is the grumpy new girl to town and holding a secret that witches aren’t just there for Halloween. She is living proof that some of the history told hear that time of the year had some truth to it. Staying with her aunt while she looks for a “protector” was quite the challenge. Risking the loss of her powers and the relationship with her family everything was at stake if she failed.

I really enjoyed this book. The Halloween atmosphere and the small town who took that holiday very seriously. It definitely had the charm of Gilmore Girls with a magical twist. This was a lighthearted and sweet read with good character development.

Plot: 8/10
Pace: 8/10
Ending: 10/10
Characters: 9/10
Enjoyability: 9/10
Writing Style: 8/10
Would I Recommend? Yes
Favorite Character: Anya

Favorite Quote: ❝ Because that's what the spirit of this holiday is. To try on different lives as often as possible. To have the courage to become someone new. ❞

A very cute YA, sapphic witchy romance, with the perfect Halloween setting!

These two characters were so well written, they were complete opposites and each one complimented the other so well. The side characters were great too, Grace was an absolute staple! The parents kinda sucked though.

The plot was great, the dynamic that progresses as the story did was so good! It kept me hooked and interested.

The little town of Fableview was written beautifully, very immersive like you were right there with A&D throughout the book!

This was very nice “coming of age/ into your own” read.

Thanks NetGalley & Random House Children’s Books for the ARC

I will be posting to IG closer to release so it doesn’t get lost and Amazon on release day as well.

This is the perfect read if you are looking for a cute Halloween story! I also appreciated that Darcy and Anya felt like real teenagers. They struggled with things like finding friends and figuring out their futures. Their relationship was cute and the town of Fableview was so fun to read about!

There is a paranormal element to this story but the relationships and self discovery journey of each of the main characters is the main focus. I liked watching them each figure out who they wanted to be and seeing them connect.

If you have a teenager in your life looking for an adorable sapphic romance this fall I highly recommend this one! I enjoyed it as an adult but it is a YA book I would not hesitate to recommend for a teenager of any age, which is not always the case.

Very cute, Halloween sapphic romance!

I am obsessed with the setting of this book! It gave off Gilmore Girls meets Salem meets Halloweentown, I was in love. The characters for the most part were all great! I loved Darcy and Anya, but my favorite was Grace. I'll admit the parents in here are not the best and it was a little distracting.
I loved watching both our MC's self growth through this book! I'd love to read more about this little town, I really hope this turns into a series where we follow different characters *fingers crossed*.

If you're looking for a cozy YA for Halloween this year I would absolutely recommend this one!

What a lovely, magical story! Set in a small town obsessed with magic and witches (the fake Halloween kind, at least on the surface), this delightful tale follows two girls who are struggling to find their own place in the world--whether it's in the town of Fableview or not. I very much enjoyed reading about Anya and Darcy's adventures as they tried to spruce up Fableview's normal Halloween traditions with a bit of their own magic (in Anya's case, literally sometimes!) The ending was perfect, though it leaves me wondering about some of the other residents of Fableview--perhaps there will be more stories set there in the future? I will certainly keep an eye out for them if so!

If you want to celebrate Halloween all month long, take a trip to Fableview where they make Halloween their town's business. There might even be a few witches walking past you, whether you know it or not. Everything She Does is Magic is a young adult, which at times felt middle grade, sapphic romance novel that's perfect for reading in the Fall or whenever you want a splash of magic in your reading life. I thought the story overall was very cute and I can see a lot of readers enjoying it. It reminds me a little bit of Practical Magic, the movie, if you wanted it to be a little tamer and gayer. That in a nutshell is Everything She Does is Magic. I would like to see more stories from Fableview as I imagine there are more mystical creatures that live in the town.

Thank you to Delacorte Romance and Netgalley for a copy in exchange for review consideration.

This was such a cute and cozy little book filled with all things Halloween! I loved Darcy and Anya and how good they were for each other and how they helped the town improve its Halloween happenings! Grace and Kyle were also really lovable characters! Halloween lovers looking for a cozy comfort read with a little douse of magic will love this one!

Unfortunately this book just wasn’t for me. It just didn’t click in the way I hoped it would. It sounded really interesting and the cover is so so pretty but just wasn’t for me. Thank you for the opportunity to try and read it early though!

Perhaps I should've kept this for spooky season (maybe a re-read in October?), but alas I read this at the begging of summer, and it made very impatient for October.

Just to be clear, it didn't affect my opinion of the book which I thoroughly enjoyed. I only wanted to rant for a second because I hate summer, ahah.

The book was very good. Great characters, writing and an entertaining plot!

This is the Halloween, golden retriever black cat, sapphic romance I've been waiting for. Reading it over the summer only made me that much excited for fall to roll in.

Everything She Does Is Magic follows two characters—the first is Darcy, heir-apparent to Fableview, a town that lives and breathes Halloween in the way Salem of our world does, hosting tourists and townsfolk alike for a massive stretch of festivities. She plays along with all of the fake magic, and isn't entirely certain if an eternity in Fableview is what she wants to be doing. Second is Anya—a real, live witch—or, well, witch in training, living in Fableview for the last year with her aunt as she finishes her training to enter her family's cousin on her birthday this Halloween. She's also been crushing on Darcy for the last year, and maybe been lying to her parents that they were already friends and Darcy had agreed to be her protector—a mortal who vows to protect a witch and who absolutely cannot be that witch's romantic interest.

So clearly, they shouldn't get involved.

What follows is an extremely fun story that spills through the Halloween season and deals with a variety of escapades that highlight all of the absurd intricacies of living in a small town for too long, the pressures set upon teenagers by their families, and cast of characters I was constantly surprised and delighted by.

The characters really were the strong point of this story—not only were Darcy and Anya incredibly different and dynamic, but they also made sense as a pair on the page. So often in opposites attract romances, an author is not entirely able to sell that these people should actually fall for each other. But Anya making Darcy brave, and Darcy reminding Anya she could open up to the world was so perfect. I loved reading along as Anya yearned and Darcy fell. I would have loved to read an extremely slow burn between them, but also wholeheartedly acknowledge that we have a very limited time frame in the Halloween season here!

In terms of side characters, Kyle and Grace were highlights—though I didn't entirely know what to make of Grace at the beginning, she grew on me immensely. And I would read an entire book about Kyle being a weirdly supportive, well meaning but also ridiculous man.

The plot was exactly the thing I will need in the fall to put me right back into the Halloween spirit, touching on every sort of tradition from haunted houses to apple bobbing, costume parades and corn mazes. The undercurrent of the plots surrounding both characters and their families perfectly paralleled each other, and it was interesting to see the pull and push of small town life emphasized in such an honest and heartwarming way. Sometimes the answer isn't to leave everything you know behind—it's to find what you love about it and make decisions for yourself as to whether or not you will dive deeper.

There was a little bit of miscommunication that bothered me and I wished had been a little more sensical, and there were bits of the last 20% or so that I wish weren't as rushed—I could have done with another 50 pages. But all in all, I had such a fun time with this book and can't wait to pick it up again in the fall! 4.5 stars, thank you to the publisher and Netgalley for the early copy in exchange for my honest review!

Bridget Morrissey is an author who I get excited about everytime I see one of her new releases so it's absolutely criminal I hadn't picked one up until now.

Even in the beginning of summer, this fall themed read managed to sweep me off my feet and swoon alongside the subtle magic and romance of this quaint magical town. There is so much to love in this story, fantastically fleshed out mc's, side characters you will ADORE, sweet dates and moments that will have you blushing and kicking your feet. It's truly everything I wanted it to be - quick, easy, joyful reading.

Whilst I don't think this story will stick with me for a long time, it is one i'll fiercely recommend (especially if you can wait until october, the vibes will truly be unmatched!) and I will definitely be picking up this author's past and future releases. It's a romantic sapphic story that achieves the perfect cozy vibes of a small town halloween romance movie.

Also a moment for this cover? Absolutely gorgeous.

I really loved this. Super sweet coming of age, first love story with the bonus of small town charm and real witches.

A cute Halloween Sapphic YA Romance that deals with friendship, love and acceptance.

I loved watching the two main characters grow throughout the book. It was beautiful to see Anya come out of her shell and start to make these friendships and start to believe and find love in herself. Seeing Darcy learn to speak for what she wants and to help her parents see her in a different way while helping Anya discover herself was fun to see. I loved the romance between the two even though it seems like it happened really fast. I love that it was low angst and resolved very quickly which very much kept pace with how this book felt.

Thank you Random House Children's Books and NetGalley for letting me read a free copy of this book in exchange for a review

Anya is new in the Halloween-obsessed town of Fableview and struggling to make friends--in part because she's scarred by a disastrous end to a friendship in her old town and in part because she's stressed about finding a mortal protector before her eighteenth birthday and her indoctrination into the family coven. Yes, Anya is a real-life witch. If she doesn't find a willing human protector, Anya will not only lose her powers but be expelled from her family. So in a fit of panic, when her parents ask her who she has selected, she blurts out the name of her crush--Darcy Keller. But Anya and Darcy have hardly exchanged more than a few words and after her Aunt's protector cheated on her, romantic entanglements with protectors are strictly forbidden.

Despite reading this in the dead of summer, it brought all the spooky season, Halloween vibes that would make it a perfect fall read. It's the perfect mix of cozy and cute and supernatural and spooky. Darcy and Anya were adorable together, and I also loved their friendships with other characters in the book. It has some great coming-of-age themes, as well as romance, and was overall a joy to read. If I had one complaint it would be--minor spoiler--that Darcy and Anya say "I love you" to each other toward the end of the book, despite having been dating for maybe a week and in a fight for part of that time. Could have done without that exchange, even when we throw in teenage hormones. Was otherwise great, though!

Thanks to Delacorte Books for my eARC! All thoughts and opinions are my own.

5 stars - 8/10

*que the practical magic soundtrack

This was such a sweet sapphic witchy moment. The story follows two teens on the precipice of big life changing decisions. Together they need to survive the Halloween season of their small tourist town, and maybe find the solutions to those big life changes.

The characters are sweet and each unique in their own ways. Even the side characters felt important and fleshed out.

The witchy small town setting is so perfect for fall. Reading about all the festivities will surely get readers in the mood for spooky season.

The only thing I would say is that I think more of Anya’s backstory could have added to the story. We learn about a friendship in her past and the way it affected her, but it felt more like something that was added later on to explain certain things about Anya.

Overall such a cozy and sweet read!

Thank you to NetGalley and the publishers for allowing me to read the arc of this book in exchange for an honest review.

a book cover to die for! so perfect for the spooky season. so so swoonworthy!! i loved this so much. i loved the characters and their connection. fast paced and didn't feel bored at all while reading. would highly rec this author!

This book makes you believe in magic and witches, and also the power of falling in love! The writing in this book is almost like reading a story about two people you’ve known for years. Ready for a sequel asap!

Darcy is the daughter of parents who own a paint shop and run the Halloween festivities in their small town, but she feels trapped by their plans for her life not consulting her. Anya is a friendless witch who needs to find a mortal to become her protector in order to be initiated into her coven. She's lied to her parents that Darcy will do it — the only problem is that Darcy doesn't believe magic is real and doesn't know her. She ends up joining the fall planning committee to get to know Darcy, only to find herself falling deeper for the other girl in the process.

This was a quick, fun read, but things got a little darker than I expected for cozy fantasy. It feels as if a lot of the dynamics that frankly constitute child abuse (emotional abuse) were glossed over as not that big a deal in the ending. That seems insensitive to me given the number of LGBTQ teenagers who either are kicked out of their family for being LGBTQ or fear that happening if they come out. I still enjoyed the book quite a bit, I just feel that some of the topics could have been handled more sensitively. Even though it wasn't directly based on the girls' sexuality, it's still not okay parenting, and it still comes off as bigotry-flavored even though the parents claim it wasn't based on the girls' sexuality. That's a thing a lot of bigots claim. I also wasn't necessarily expecting a medical emergency as the climax in a cozy fantasy. I was honestly expecting the climax to be Anya's initiation, but that isn't even shown on the page! It was just a little weird to me.

The good aspects of the book (cute town, vivid characters, sweet relationships between the girls and their friends) did outweigh the negative aspects, though. I would recommend this novel to people who like cozy-ish sapphic fantasy, with just a warning that it may contain a bit more trauma than a cozy fantasy reader might expect.