what I’m reading: witches get stuff done by molly harper.

Riley Everett is invited by her aunt to visit her in Starfall Point, Michigan. Unfortunately, after Riley arrives she learns that her aunt has died and she has inherited Shaddow House, the haunted house for which her aunt has acted as a steward. Meanwhile, the local librarian Edison Held has been trying to finagle an invite to Shaddow House to see all the antiques he just knows are inside and, with the passing of Riley’s aunt, thinks this is his chance. Too bad he already made a bad impression on Riley during their previous meeting on the ferry to Starfall Point.

I was excited for this small-town witchy romance! I really wanted to like this book but it just did not work for me. I didn’t love the characters and I didn’t really understand their motivations for anything. I thought the friends that Riley makes on the island were interesting and I really wanted to learn more about them and why Riley was drawn to them. I loved this idea of a coven/found family and I think this book would have been better if it got rid of the love story and was just a book about friendship.

Perhaps because when we first meet him, Edison has locked himself in the bathroom on the ferry but I did not see his appeal. In fact, I did not get any chemistry from Riley and Edison, and then all of a sudden they are kissing. The pacing in the book was kind of weird as well. There were large time jumps, like two months later, and it left me wondering what had happened off the pages during that time.

I loved the idea of a Winchester murder, haunted house. I felt like Shaddow House had so much potential but then nothing ever came of it. No builders arrived to build more deadends or stairwells to nowhere. It’s supposedly full of ghosts but the only ghosts we meet, besides the butler ghost, are a ghost with a whiteboard and a ghost who likes cutlery.

This book is the first in a series so I’m wondering if a lot of my questions get answered later on. Unfortunately, I’m not sure that I will continue with this series.

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