5 Stars
Maxwell sister #3
This third book in the series features Olive Maxwell, a Professor and Bax Donovan, Guardian Angel. Both have played parts in the other two series books featuring Olive’s sisters. Olive is looking for a new place to live, when Bax offers the spare room in his apartment to her. She accepts, and a mostly non-magical story starts. Olive is nothing like her sisters, which makes sense since they are triplets. She is the low key one, staying out of the limelight. Bax’s character is more flashy but has more layers to his makeup. Of the two characters, Bax is more developed, and because of this, the more interesting one. Olive’s character didn’t generate a lot of interest on my part, and I think because of this, the story dragged in parts for me. Once I got 2/3’s of the way into the book, the story became more interesting, and all the characters became something “more”.
Not Your Crush’s Cauldron is well written with the storyline giving readers more depth into the world April Asher has created. I felt the story was a strong 4.5 stars rounded up to 5 stars. I will continue to read other books in the series if Ms. Asher continues to write them.
I was given an ARC of the book through NetGalley and this is my honest opinion.
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