So, a cozy mystery about a trio of witches all living in the same neighborhood. Sounds interesting, and as far as introducing the concept and main cast, this book does an adequate job. The personalities are varied and the mystery's a decent one for so short a book.
If anything brings this down for me, it's Poe and Ellie. Poe's just not likable, coming across as a needlessly hostile drunk, whereas Ellie comes across as a whiner due to her complaining over the incompetent employees in her fast food place, rather than just trying to hire new employees who'll actually care about doing their jobs right. Both of them come across as quite judgmental, and they are also terrible sleuths.
By contrast, Mischa is very likable without being perfect and makes for an ideal main character. Her not being perfect came along in that just like her friends, she wasn't a good sleuth here, which helps balance her out and add to her likability, since perfection is boring. It also helps balance things out in that she's the level-headed one of the group, who tries to think things through and tries her best to rein in her impulsive friends. In general, Mischa was delightful. Poe's two talking pet cats don't do much here but are also likable themselves. And another thing that was a positive for me is that the dialogue here felt up to date for the most part, the characters spoke like people who actually live in modern times, instead of that overly formal, outdated, old fashioned way I see in many cozies.
Overall, I don't know if I'll continue this series, since two of the main cast did not leave good impressions on this first story, but overall, it was decent and fairly enjoyable read, much better than a bunch of cozies I've read this past year.