I fell in love with Magnus, and I thought he fell just as hard for me. Then my class got canceled and I went to the club house so we could spend an unexpected evening together. Unfortunately, someone else was already there keeping him company. My heart broke open and something spilled out. My powers. I was a witch and I had never known it.
So I’ll be the first one to say I am a safety reader first and foremost. This is a hear me out type of review simply because magnus cheats on magnolia but this still ended up being one of my favorite reads from this author. The scene is on page!
Magnus and magnolia had been together about 6 months maybe. I don’t think they like solidified the boyfriend/girlfriend thing (I could be wrong) but they were very much together. He takes an assignment from the president of his club to watch a club girl to see if she’s a traitor and he knows he has to sleep with her. He continues it after the mission is over. Magnolia catches them in the act and she’s obviously heartbroken.
This book had a fantasy element where Magnolia is a witch. (It’s also connected to another series) She leaves him and goes into witch training to help her get over her broken heart.
Magnus is distraught that he messed up the best thing in his life. Growing up with the mother he did turned him into something he didn’t want to be and he hurt Noli in the process. One of my favorite parts was after he betrayed magnolia, due to her being a witch he was forced to watch visions of Magnolia having sex with another guy. It’s someone who is helping her through her witch training and it’s his punishment to watch her be with someone else. I loved that he had to go through that after what he did.
I think the main reason I was able to move past his cheating was because the updates on this book were so slow I kept forgetting how mad I was at the beginning when she found him cheating. Idk why I even continued the book after that because I usually never but I think I read it because I was bored and wanted the angst.
He went through a lot to get her back and his grovel went on for a long time. Again I think it was because there was so much time in between chapters that I was able to forgive him but this ended up being such a good read.
There’s all the bad things in here: cheating, OW drama and a separation where he was celibate and miserable but she was not
i get into this thinking he wouldn't be redeemable and guess what
there is a difference between one time spur of the moment cheating, what he did was premeditated and i don't think he would've stopped even if he wasn't caught.
he pursued her for a month said yes to her advances jumped into a bed with her even though his boss said he didnt have to also picked times when fmc would be in class
oberon should've killed him and she should've been with fae bae she was with during their separation
OH HELL NAUR BESTIE 💀! 2 stars and that's me being a generous queen because the fairy dickheads made me snort-laugh exactly three times 😂😒!!
So I finally clawed my way through this dumpster fire of a romance novel and honestly? I need a margarita and a nap 😪! Pages after pages of a cheating bastard getting his comeuppance sounds fun until you realize you still have to watch the cheating bastard GET THE GIRL in the end 🙄!!! But we'll get to that trainwreck later 😏
Lemme finger-paint ya a hot mess real quick, Picasso-style!! 🎨💀
Magnolia (yes that's her name, yes it's on the nose, no I'm not over it 😒) walks in on her boyfriend Magnus (also on the nose, this author has zero chill) absolutely RAILING some redheaded disaster named Lamia 🤡! Like full on "you close Lamia" energy while this man is giving it to her from behind 💀 Magnolia's heart cracks open. She faints. She wakes up a witch. Cool shit if you ignore the trauma 😏!
But here's where this author decided to get SPICY and I have to give credit where it's due 😒!! She said "you know what would be hilarious? What if the cheating fuckboy had to watch his ex girlfriend get DRAGON BALL Z DESTROYED by a hot blonde fairy named Tahvo for an entire month" AND THEN SHE WROTE IT 😭😭!!!
Eight. Eight separate times this man had to sit there frozen like a garden gnome while Magnolia climbed Tahvo like a jungle gym and screamed "HARDER FASTER DEEPER TAHVO" with her legs wrapped around his waist 💀!! The author made sure we knew EVERY DETAIL! The slap slap slap of their bodies. The way she begged him not to stop. The way she looked into his eyes while he gave it to her missionary style with his hands clutching hers 😏
My petty ass was LIVING for this!!😌 The schadenfreude hit different! Every time Magnus got forced to watch another session I could hear angels singing 😇! This man had to witness his woman get absolutely WRECKED by a magical being with wings and zero emotional attachment while he couldn't move or speak or do anything except BLEED from his chest because the fairies stab him every time he tells the truth 💀!!! Speaking of which...
The three fairies (Tarek, Sumrak, and Yonaka) are the real heroes of this book 🤡!! Little winged terrorists who live to make Magnus suffer and I respect the hustle SO MUCH!!! They stab him every time he opens his mouth to be honest. They make him fight wild animals while NAKED 😭! They drop him in shark infested water!!! They make him fight Butcher (the scariest motherfucker in existence who throws lightning bolts for fun) while wearing a PINK DRESS with FLUFFY SLEEVES 💀💀!
I nearly CHOKED on my own spit when Butcher appeared in a tutu!!!🤡 The mental image of that terrifying psychopath with his dead eyes and his lightning hands wearing a pastel pink ballerina outfit while Magnus stands there naked and bleeding is now seared into my brain forever 😭!! I want to annoy Butcher for fun! I want to follow him around with a kazoo and see how long it takes for him to smite me 😂!! That would be a better use of my time than reading this book honestly 😒!
But here's where this whole thing goes off the rails into ABSOLUTE HORSESHIT TERRITORY 💩!!!
On a serious note for one second before I go back to being unhinged: this story is the most unrealistic shit I have ever read 😒 And no I'm not talking about the fairies or the witches or the magic cockatoo who says "I love you baby" to a pitbull!!🤡 I can accept magical nonsense. That's fine. Whatever 😑
What I CANNOT accept is the idea that a man who cheated on his girlfriend of SIX MONTHS multiple times, who had a whole EXCUSE FACTORY running in his head about "club business" and "we never said we were exclusive" and "other bikers have a woman just for sex and a woman they actually love" would EVER go through three life threatening trials to win her back 😒!!!
BE SO FOR REAL RIGHT NOW!! 😭
Men like this don't do the work. They just don't. They don't fight bears and sharks and mountain lions and fairy kings and alligator infested waters and sheer rock walls 😑!! They don't get stabbed seventy billion times for telling the truth about how sorry they are!!! They don't have some magical transformation where they suddenly become husband of the year material 🤡!
They move on to the next girl and cheat on HER too 😏
That's the reality. That's the tea. That's what actually happens in the real world where magic doesn't exist!! 😒
So the entire premise of Magnus suddenly becoming this noble suffering martyr who would rather DIE than hurt Magnolia again is PURE HORSESHIT served on a silver platter with a side of delusion 💩!
And of COURSE the author has to give us a for the cheating because apparently every cheating man in romance needs a tragic justification or a magical excuse 🙄 Here it's "well actually his cheating was necessary to unlock her witch powers because magic requires balance."
So you're hittin' me with the tea that every badass witch needs a total fuckwit sidepiece who can't keep his dick in his pants for five goddamn seconds?? 😒 Like, the secret sauce to magical girlboss glow-up is eyeballin' your dude balls-deep in some fire-crotch redhead, beggin' her "you close yet, babe?" while you're home cryin' into your cauldron?? And poor Magnolia had to get her heart shredded like confetti at a demon rave just to level up and make fuckin' daisies bloom or yeet energy balls like a pissed-off Pikachu?? 😑 Bitch, that's not empowerment, that's the universe's shittiest plot twist since "it was all a dream"!
REAL COOL SYSTEM FAIRIES. LOVE THAT FOR US!!!😏
Oh hell yeah, what's next in this cosmic fuckery??my car payment vanishes every time some loser ghosts me after three dates?? Rent check bounces into my lap whenever I screenshot my boyfriend's thirsty DMs to randos?? Student loans evaporate like holy water on a vampire with every backstabbing betrayal??!! SIGN ME THE FUCK UP, I guess, 'cause at this bullshit rate I'd own a whole-ass McMansion, a yacht, and a pet unicorn by now 😑!!
Rosemary straight-up pissed me off, that woman's a total clown show!!!😒
She's the mentor witch. She's supposed to be wise and supportive and all that crap. But every single time Magnolia expresses perfectly valid concerns about trusting Magnus again after he CHEATED ON HER REPEATEDLY Rosemary hits her with "Such a whiny witch" and "You jump to conclusions so fast" and "Stop being so dramatic"😒
Girl, excuse me???!!!🤨😭
You gave your husband Boone back a PIECE of your heart that he is NEVER GETTING because he cheated on you the NIGHT BEFORE YOUR WEDDING with your REDHEADED COUSIN 🤡!! You admitted you still get that soft faraway look in your eyes when you think about your fairy conciliator Kessem. You told Magnolia straight up that Boone has to live knowing a part of your heart belongs to another magical being forever and that's just how it is now.
But Magnolia is WHINY because she's skeptical about trusting the man who was BALLS DEEP in another woman after only six months of dating??!😒The man who cheated EIGHT TIMES??? Who had a whole justification system worked out in his head like "well it's club business" and "she gives me signals" and "technically we never said we were exclusive" and "other bikers do this all the time"?? The man who LITERALLY WOULD HAVE KEPT DOING IT FOREVER if she hadn't walked in on him that specific Thursday night when her class got canceled??? 😭
Rosemary needs to swap that broom for a reality check before she mentors anyone into therapy lol😭😭😭
Like bestie pick a LANE!! Either we get to be traumatized and cautious about cheating men OR we don't!! Either we get to hold grudges and keep pieces of our hearts for ourselves OR we don't!! But don't tell me you kept a piece of your heart from your husband while calling your trainee whiny for having trust issues !!😑The hypocrisy is giving me a MIGRAINE!!!
Two stars because Magnus is still trash and no amount of fairy blessings or magical heart scars or twin babies or cockatoos named Cody is going to change the fact that he CHEATED 💀!! She SAW it. She will never UNSEE it. And I will never fully buy that a man who did that would go through all of this to get her back!!😒
Cute but Magnolia's stubborness and the way she kept harping on the same points got a little tired. You start to feel sorry for Magus after he goes through the trials but while you eventually forgive him, there wasn't really a good explanation for his cheating. Other than he mom being neglectful and maybe abusive (no real clarity given there), and saying he ruins everything good in his life, it was pretty glossed over. I do like how he proved himself for her and prioritized her moving forward.
Another 5 star GroveltoHEA book for the win!! Magnus was something if I’ve ever seen it, I’d honestly say he made me feel worse than Merrick did .. but he went above and beyond in his groveling and honestly if fate is balanced a certain way; I can’t be mad at him ..