Reviewed by Becca
TITLE: Hexes and Horns
SERIES: Magic Emporium #5
AUTHOR: Rowan McAllister
PUBLISHER: self-published
LENGTH: 242 pages
RELEASE DATE: February 11, 2021
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Ryan O’Byrne has rules: 1) no using his magic, 2) no getting dragged back into his family’s craziness, and 3) no dating supernaturals of any kind, especially shifters … in other words, nothing and no one who will tempt him to break rule number one.
But what if the gorgeous wall of muscle he can’t seem to stay away from just happens to be a shifter? Well, it is only a short-term thing, and he isn’t a master of denial for nothing.
Leo Holt can’t help it if he has a teeny tiny weakness for bad boys—not really bad, just a little prickly around the edges. Even for a unicorn, all sweetness and light, all the time, can get a little boring. But, falling for the eldest son of the dark witch family who runs his little West Virginia town might be getting his fingers too close to the fire, even for him.
For Ryan, it was supposed to be a simple trip back home to show support during a family crisis. But when hexes, secrets, a family demon, and the O’Byrne witches are involved, nothing is ever simple.
<Hexes and Horns, is part of the Magic Emporium Series. Each book stands alone, but each one features an appearance by Marden’s Magic Emporium, a shop that can appear anywhere, but only once and only when someone’s in dire need. This book contains explicit sex scenes, a muscular moonshiner, a reluctant witch, a spooky best friend, and a guaranteed HEA.
REVIEW:
So far, I think this is my favorite out of the whole series. I really do. And they’ve all been good. But this one just had that extra oomph needed to make it that much more spectacular. A witch, trying not to be a witch, a unicorn trying not to expose himself or fall in love with the wrong person again, a family hell bent on being evil, and children who should have been taken in hand a lonnnnnng time ago. All topped off with magical being everywhere and a demon bent on being free of the prison he’s been in for years, with a little trickery and naive children.
And honestly, that sums it up lol. I felt for Ryan and Leo from the get go. Ryan, for having to deal with that mess he calls a family. Who honestly needed someone to take them down a few pegs a long time ago. Leo, for having to hide who he is, just to survive. And having to face guilt everyday because the one person he wants to tell everything to, could end up turning into his worst nightmare. And does. It’s another one of those books that is a nail biter, because you don’t quite know who’s up to what and who to fully trust. But it’s also one of those books you wish you could reach into, to throat punch a few people for acting like the idiots they are.
But no good book is complete without a little bit of life, and idiots along the way to make life….interesting. But one thing I loved, is Leo and Ryan both learned, together they were better. They didn’t have to be bad, especially Ryan, like his family. They had their own paths to take. Their own lives to lead and it was together. They were stronger and they ‘sparkled’. Lol. You’ll get what I mean when you read it.
It’s a great book. I loved every minute of this book and am glad I got to read it.
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