Special thanks to NetGalley and Berkley Publishing Group for sharing this amazing digital reviewer copy with me in exchange my honest opinions. I did like that Mariel had her best friends though and that she found joy in her nature magic, which was incredibly strong (even if everyone else trivialized it).

It was just a big shame because this story was perfect, it had a good premise, a balance of humour and seriousness, a plot that drove the story ans then doom, it was all shattered. Ozroth's only job is to make bargains with witches so that he can use their souls to power the demon plane. The characters come across as teenagers instead of adults and I'm not sure if it's because they seem two-dimensional or that the writing is really immature in a sense. Our heroine just wants to find a way to live the life she wants when she's thrown into an accidental soul with a demon (who has his own accidental human soul).India Holton, bestselling author of THE LEAGUE OF GENTLEWOMEN WITCHES --This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition. The small-town-with-magic setting is just as charming as the characters and made me want to visit Glimmer Falls. I would have loved to have seen more of his denial or anger towards having gained emotions/having to deal with a witch with no control of her powers, but instead he was fighting attraction straight away and cleaning up her house. But, she can’t tell her parents that she accidentally summoned a demon, so she tells them she is dating Ozroth. I also wish Mariel would’ve refrained from telling her friends that she was fake dating Oz because it kinda dampened the effect.

Because of the way she treated him, I just could not see why Oz would want to spend decades with her and leave his life and duties and everything he's ever known.Honestly the illustration style makes them look more like children than anything because there are definite YA vibes to me. Mariel Spark is prophesied to be the most powerful witch seen in centuries of the famed Spark family, but to the displeasure of her mother, she prefers baking to brewing potions and gardening to casting hexes. She was a winner of RevPit 2018, and her short stories and satirical articles have been published by Hooked, Slackjaw, The Belladonna Comedy, and Points in Case.

I felt so much sympathy for Mariel (h) that her family was powerful and therefore so much was expected from her, but she struggled hard with her magic. The alternate green cover does a better job at making them look like adults as well as accurate to their book descriptions! When a spell to summon flour goes very wrong, Mariel finds herself staring down a demon – one she inadvertently summoned for a soul bargain. There were some basic editing issues, with names being in lowercase or spaces between words missing a few times. She wasn’t my favorite heroine, but she was lovable and handled the whole soul stealing demon bit with the same grace as I would have (none).

I wish I had liked it more, but when a book that unalives a chicken that way in the first few pages to be funny(? A Witch’s Guide to Fake Dating a Demon is a delightful, cute, steamy story that ends with a magical twist! She co-hosted the Wicked Wallflowers Club podcast about romance fiction, which was featured on Entertainment Weekly’s “Must List” as “a compelling reminder of why the oft-dismissed genre is a real force in cultural conversations about consent and desire.

Sometimes I just need to escape into a light, funny book, and A Witches Guide to Fake Dating A Demon fits the bill perfectly. Because of their circumstances, Mariel and Oz take time to warm up to each other, starting with friendship and then moving to romance.

Also, the writing felt juvenile sometimes because the author was trying so hard to incorporate pop culture/dad jokes.