Series Name: Witchlore #3
The war that the Joywood, witchkind’s ruling coven, promised us was coming on the night they intended to kill us in full view of the whole town and claim it was justice.
Absolutely nothing noteworthy or overtly terrifying has happened since that June night. We stood up to the Joywood and somehow lived – but the dread gets worse by the day.
None of us are safe.
The Witchlore series just keeps getting better and better.
Cursed by her own mother to always tell the truth and one of the only half-witches around, Ellowyn Good has never considered herself an equal part of the Riverwood coven. But when the evil ruling coven of the witching world targets her directly, she begins to wonder why they want her gone.
She’ll need to work with her newly formed coven to survive, which includes dealing with her first love, past wreckage and a whole new complication she didn’t see coming. With their fates in the balance, Ellowyn will have to learn to trust Zander again—or be doomed to repeat the mistakes of the past. Assuming they all survive the Joywood’s latest bid for absolute power over the witching world…
In the third book of Hazel Beck’s Witchlore series, we are plunged right back into action after the adventures in the second book. We pick up a few months later when the new coven is trying to figure out what happens next in this battle for witch dominance. Ellowyn, the half-witch, half-human of the coven has her own issues she’s dealing with that involve her first love, and first heartbreak, Zander.
I love Ellowyn and Zander. They’ve been fierce and funny characters since book one: both outspoken and both loving to hate each other so much that you can’t help but wonder, is this an act? This is a fabulous second chance romance. The dynamic duo behind Hazel Beck dive deep into the reasons behind their first split as teens, and look at the growth the two of them have gone through since then. Why they get back together makes sense, and the work they do as a couple throughout the book is realistic but also very swoony. If you want to see a couple work hard to make their relationship work, then you need Ellowyn and Zander in your life.
This story also has a ton of action as Ellowyn, Zander and the gang that now make up the Riverwood coven come face to face again with the terrible Joywood coven in a big showdown. This is the third in the series, with one more to come, and I do think you should probably read them all, firstly because they are delightful, and secondly because the plot builds throughout the books. There’s a lot of politics and back story you need to understand to really enjoy these books and the strong cast of secondary characters in the pages. I love that even though this story focuses on Ellowyn and Zander, we still get a lot of page time with the rest of the coven as well as some other characters we’ve gotten to know over the series.
Truly, Madly, Magically is a fabulous installment in the Witchlore series. I’m already impatiently waiting for the final book!
Thank you Harlequin for the ARC in exchange for an honest review.
