Book Review – ‘Not Your Crush’s Cauldron’ by April Asher

Synopsis 

Olive Maxwell much prefers teaching about the Supernatural world to taking part in it and leaves the magical shenanigans to her two sisters. After assigning her college students a project designed to nudge them outside their comfort zones, Olive realizes she’s never once stepped a toe out of her own . . . and it’s about time that changed. Her first trip into the unknown? Moving in with her longtime crush and friend . . . tattooed, motorcycle-riding, and pleasantly pierced Baxter Donovan. 

Bax Donovan, Guardian Angel not-so-extraordinaire, has acquired so many black marks on his record it looks like a Scantron test. He’s been given one last chance to keep his Guardian wings—a high-profile Assignment he knows all too well. Olive is usually as low-risk as it gets. Hell, she wrote the safety manual. But something landed her on the Guardian Angel Affairs radar, and he guesses it has something to do with the heart-pounding stunts she’s determined to check off her Dare I Docket list. 

Keeping Olive out of trouble is about to be his toughest Assignment. He’s at real risk of shattering the only Guardian Angel code of conduct rule he’s yet to break: Don’t fall in love with your Assignment. And he isn’t so sure that’s a bad thing. 

If love doesn’t play by the rules, why should they? 

My Thoughts 

April Asher was able to merge Paranormal and real-world settings to make it so natural in ‘Not Your Crush’s Cauldron’.  This story is the third in the Supernatural Singles series and I have to say even though I didn’t read the first two she was able to give me enough information on past characters to not feel too lost.  

April was able to write Olive is a curvy woman who was confident in ways but ended up knowing she needed to step outside of her box of a world she made for herself.  Of course, the person who helped her cross off stuff on her list is a guy who is head over heels for her.  Seeing Bax look like a bad boy but seeing how big of a teddy bear he was something I enjoyed seeing. Whenever I saw these two on the pages, I couldn’t help but smile as they were just that type of couple that made your insides all bubbly with the feels.  Not only do they give you the feels, but they can heat the room with the spice they give. The chemistry between them is nothing but magic (did you see what I did there?). 

‘Not Your Crush’s Cauldron’ is a great read and it took me only one day to read as I loved this story.  This book is getting 4 stars from me.  There were points where there were so many characters it took me a moment to remember who they were, but I could have been having a few issues remembering who everyone was as I didn’t read the first two books in the series.  Even with this, I think it’s a great read, and even if you haven’t read the first two books you will enjoy it. And if you want some spice with your Romance this book will cover that!  It’s a spice level 4.  When you get to these scenes you will for sure understand the spice level was given for a reason.  ‘Not Your Crush’s Cauldron’ was released today and is available wherever you get your books.

**I would like to thank NetGalley and St. Martin’s Griffin for the ARC copy of this book. Getting the ARC Copy did not influence my thoughts on the book as they are all my own.**