In a world full of witches and magical beings, Tilda feels like an outcast due to her outré status; she has no magical abilities despite being born into one of the most powerful family of witches. Things get interesting for Tilda after she gets set-up on her fourth consecutive blind date with her nemesis, Gil Connelly; a secret double agent who is working to free his parents. When Tilda accidentally causes her sister’s spell to glitch and freezes all her family members, Tilda must enlist the help of Gil and her misfit friends to help steal a powerful spell book, The Liber Umbrarum, so that they can unfreeze Tilda’s family. The more time that Gil spends the Tilda, the harder it becomes to deny their growing attraction and the more Gil suspects that Tilda’s family has been keeping secrets. Witcha Gonna Do is a forced proximity, enemies to lovers, witchy rom com told from a dual point of view. Some themes present in the story include secrets and lies, convention versus rebellion, family and found families, appearance versus reality, power, corruption, good versus evil, politics, love and heartbreak, and fate versus freewill. If you’re a fan of witchy rom coms like The Ex Hex and The Kiss Curse by Erin Sterling, then you should definitely check out Witcha Gonna Do. The addition of heists and rebellions in Witcha Gonna Do were reminiscent of Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo and Serpent & Dove by Shelby Mahurin so, if you are a fan of either of these series, then I highly recommend checking out Witcha Gonna Do. Lastly, since Witcha Gonna Do is witchy but not “Halloweeny”, I would also recommend this book to fans of witchy reads like A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness and The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches by Sangu Mandanna.
I enjoyed the unexpected inclusions of heists, rebellions, secrets, and danger as it added more excitement to the story and made the story more unique; although, I must say that I was disappointed that the romance almost took a backseat to these other elements. Furthermore, even though there was a fair amount of spice, I was surprised that most of the romance was confined to last third of the novel.
To be honest, I didn’t like the Epilogue, which takes place 5 years after the events in Witcha Gonna Do, as it left me feeling confused; even though a lot of things were up in the air and unresolved at the end of Tilda’s story, at the beginning of the Epilogue, Tilda starts to tell the reader how everything worked out and then states that her sisters need to fill in a lot of gaps in the story before everything makes sense. On the plus side, there was a sneak peek of the next installment of Flynn’s Witchington series, Resting Witch Face, included at the end of the novel. Overall, I thought that Witcha Gonna Do was a fun witchy rom com that would be perfect for fans of magic, dangerous heists, and “enemies to lovers” romances.
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