Title: Modern Divination
Series: Spells for Life and Death #1
Author: Isabel Agajanian
Aurelia Schwartz has spent twenty-three years maintaining the equilibrium between her carefully curated human life and the magical one that she endures in secret. With a devoted best friend and top marks at a prestigious university, she has everything one could possibly want neatly within her grasp.
Except, her gift of green magic has begun to fade, and if that wasn’t enough to upset the balance of her life, a fateful run-in with another power-hungry witch with a penchant for stolen magic has threatened to bring it all to ruin.
Cast into an unexpected alliance with her dreadfully arrogant classmate, Aurelia goes into hiding among a peculiar family of witches, where she discovers that the secret to their safety requires breaking rules she has followed all her life:
Make no promises,
Tell no one what you are,
and
Never stay the night.
Teddy is life!
I won’t just leave it at that, I’d better explain myself, well I’ll try!
Aureila is a witch hiding in plain sight and, when one of her closest witchy friends gets offed, she is taken in and helped by her arch nemesis, Theodore Ingram.
And this is where our story starts.
~ Academic Rivals
~ Rivals to lovers
~ Character driven plot
~ Flawed characters
~ Cozy, unearthly, atmospheric setting.
It felt like it took a long time to get to the ending, maybe too long?
I must admit, I’m not a slow burn type of gal but this slow burn was DELISH (yes, capitals to really emphasise!!)
And now…..Theodore Ingram aka Teddy – my actual heart!
‘You’d be surprised by all the things that scare me.
Like what?
You. You terrify me. And torture me a bit too.’
But the ending. That letter. There is more, yes?!
