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Imagine a bumbling character like Janet Evanovich's Stephanie Plum told with the quirky tone of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, but trying to get a job at Hogwarts.
Clarissa Lawrence has been fired from multiple internships as a student teacher for reasons outside her control. Magical things keep happening to her . . . like the students turning into frogs. Her love life isn't any more normal, considering how her boyfriends keep mysteriously suffering from heart attacks.
Clarissa doesn't know how to explain it all. Like most twenty-one-year-olds who grew up reading the Harry Potter Series, Clarissa has always dreamed of escaping her mundane life by being invited to a magical school where good triumphs over evil, the administration is fair and kind, and schools don't suffer from budget cuts.
When Clarissa learns she is descended from a powerful sorceress, she would do anything to find the magical world where she knows she belongs. Only, the witches don't want her because her mother pulled a Wicked Witch of the West move on everyone. To make matters worse, a gang of evil Fae wants to kidnap and enslave her. Clarissa must escape little old ladies in gingerbread cottages, the evil school district psychologist who has always been out to get her, and a hoard of harpies before she can prove to the Witchkin that the bad apple falls farther from the tree that they'd guessed.
If she can do this, then maybe, just maybe her dreams will come true and she'll land that job teaching the dark arts and crafts.
This is the second book in the WOMBY'S SCHOOL FOR WAYWARD WITCHES Series, but the first three books can be read in any order.
Clarissa Lawrence has been fired from multiple internships as a student teacher for reasons outside her control. Magical things keep happening to her . . . like the students turning into frogs. Her love life isn't any more normal, considering how her boyfriends keep mysteriously suffering from heart attacks.
Clarissa doesn't know how to explain it all. Like most twenty-one-year-olds who grew up reading the Harry Potter Series, Clarissa has always dreamed of escaping her mundane life by being invited to a magical school where good triumphs over evil, the administration is fair and kind, and schools don't suffer from budget cuts.
When Clarissa learns she is descended from a powerful sorceress, she would do anything to find the magical world where she knows she belongs. Only, the witches don't want her because her mother pulled a Wicked Witch of the West move on everyone. To make matters worse, a gang of evil Fae wants to kidnap and enslave her. Clarissa must escape little old ladies in gingerbread cottages, the evil school district psychologist who has always been out to get her, and a hoard of harpies before she can prove to the Witchkin that the bad apple falls farther from the tree that they'd guessed.
If she can do this, then maybe, just maybe her dreams will come true and she'll land that job teaching the dark arts and crafts.
This is the second book in the WOMBY'S SCHOOL FOR WAYWARD WITCHES Series, but the first three books can be read in any order.
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First published March 25, 2018
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August 5, 2019
This book starts with a flashback to Clarissa’s childhood, and the moves onto a scene that will appeal to anyone who has ever been (or thought about being) a trainee teacher. Oh, how I wish I’d had just a tiny bit of magic when faced with a class of riotous teenagers. Thankfully, I never had the (dubious) joy of attempting a sex education lesson – but even the best prepared maths lesson can go very quickly belly-up. The vision of Clarissa’s inadvertent solution to the pupils’ raucous behaviour, will remain etched in your mind well after you finish the book – and you may never look the same way at a banana again. The book deserves five stars for this scene alone.
Clarissa – medicated to the eyeballs on anti-psychotics to make her stop thinking about magic being real – is having a tough time. She wants to become a qualified art teacher, but keeps losing her trainee placements, as weird occurrences just keep following her around. The mysterious School Psychologist appears again and again. She has been evicted, and has to go back to live with her over-protective mother, whose solution to any of Clarissa’s problems is (drugged) food. Her only remaining option is to go back to the Oregon Country Fair, and try to make some money from her sleight-of-hand magic act.
Clarissa is such a great heroine – funny and quick thinking, with an appealing naivety. Her magic seems to be inextricably linked to her frustrated sexuality – and completely out of her conscious control. Can she avoid the sinister crows at the Fair, and somehow get help from magic beings, who do not want to strip her of her powers? And will we ever get to Womby's School for Wayward Witches?
I loved this book, and am really looking forward to reading the rest of the series.
Clarissa – medicated to the eyeballs on anti-psychotics to make her stop thinking about magic being real – is having a tough time. She wants to become a qualified art teacher, but keeps losing her trainee placements, as weird occurrences just keep following her around. The mysterious School Psychologist appears again and again. She has been evicted, and has to go back to live with her over-protective mother, whose solution to any of Clarissa’s problems is (drugged) food. Her only remaining option is to go back to the Oregon Country Fair, and try to make some money from her sleight-of-hand magic act.
Clarissa is such a great heroine – funny and quick thinking, with an appealing naivety. Her magic seems to be inextricably linked to her frustrated sexuality – and completely out of her conscious control. Can she avoid the sinister crows at the Fair, and somehow get help from magic beings, who do not want to strip her of her powers? And will we ever get to Womby's School for Wayward Witches?
I loved this book, and am really looking forward to reading the rest of the series.
August 5, 2020
I got a free copy of this from Hidden Gems Books ☺️
*3.5
This book looks nothing like what I thought it would be, in the best way possible.
Let me be honest with you. I got the email asking me if I wanted to sign up to r&r this book, and I clicked on it without looking at the book.
And I got all upset because I thought I would have to read like, 160ish pages of kids book (which is what the cover makes it look like, tbh). I thought it was going to be Ever After High-ish, and while those books are cute, they’re kind of elementary...
So, initial thoughts: "why do I have to read this. Why can’t I read an email properlyyyyyyyy???"
But then I started reading, and when I got to the part when Clarissa has to teach that awful Sex-Ed class (I have new respect for my 9th grade health teacher), and all that other weird stuff happened (I know it was magic, but it was more vulgar than I thought it would be).
In summary, the book got pretty interesting after a while, and overall it’s pretty decent. But other people may hate it, so it’s in the eye of the beholder I guess. 🤷🏻♀️🤷🏻♀️
Either way, it was pretty funny and went by fast.
*3.5
This book looks nothing like what I thought it would be, in the best way possible.
Let me be honest with you. I got the email asking me if I wanted to sign up to r&r this book, and I clicked on it without looking at the book.
And I got all upset because I thought I would have to read like, 160ish pages of kids book (which is what the cover makes it look like, tbh). I thought it was going to be Ever After High-ish, and while those books are cute, they’re kind of elementary...
So, initial thoughts: "why do I have to read this. Why can’t I read an email properlyyyyyyyy???"
But then I started reading, and when I got to the part when Clarissa has to teach that awful Sex-Ed class (I have new respect for my 9th grade health teacher), and all that other weird stuff happened (I know it was magic, but it was more vulgar than I thought it would be).
In summary, the book got pretty interesting after a while, and overall it’s pretty decent. But other people may hate it, so it’s in the eye of the beholder I guess. 🤷🏻♀️🤷🏻♀️
Either way, it was pretty funny and went by fast.
February 18, 2019
Much better than the prequel and definitely worth reading.
February 5, 2020
This is book two in the Womby’s School for Wayward Witches series and follows Clarissa Lawrence in her life as an outcast and failure. She has always wished that magic was real and that she could go to Hogwarts! Unfortunately, she has always been told magic isn’t real, but then why do such weird things always happen around her? Anything electrical seems to lose its power around her and her mobile phone never stays charged! She believes she caused her sister’s death and the possible death of her first ever boyfriend who was swept away by a tornado. She has been trying to get her internship as a teacher completed, only to have magical things happen which end up in her being sacked from numerous intern places.
Her latest attempt at a relationship, ended up with her older boyfriend having a heart attack and only just surviving, when she managed to use magic to revive him, or was that just her CPR skills at work? Her father is dead, as is her sister, but her mother tells her that magic is not real and she isn’t to blame for anyone’s death. Her escapades at various schools have been students seemingly turning into frogs, or a sex education class she gets forced into covering for, with bananas and teenage students, need I say more …. All she wants is to be an arts teacher and wonders how she will ever get through the end of her intern position if she can’t find another school to take her on?
Her mother looks out for her and always seems to be able to cook her a meal or make a smoothie that helps her to feel calmer. Adding in the medicine her mother reminds her to take, to help with her psychological issues – believing she is responsible for some of the strange things that have happened around her. Going to the local County Fair to perform her magic and juggling act seems a better option than trailing around the streets for tips, and a real chance to mix with others like her. Maybe she will get a contract! What she gets is far more than she ever could have thought. There are witches and ravens from the raven court, faes wanting to claim her for using magic in the normal world.
She does her magic act and something goes really weird and the audience seem to love her second act. Somehow something magical has happened, but her magical experiences are normally related to when she is sexually excited! Not what she would expect whilst on stage in front of an audience of weirdly dressed folk. Some look to be off their heads on exotic herbs and drugs and some dressed up as weird witches or in Halloween costumes. She learns from one, that her real mother was a wicked witch who caused a load of trouble in the magical world. She is warned that if she doesn’t reverse whatever magic that she managed to perform on one object, that she will be claimed by the raven queen. Claimed as a slave to a powerful fae ruler, rather than her dream job of being a teacher. Now, she has a headteacher and recruiter for a magic school who may save her and give her a chance at what she really wants.
Whatever you do, you really need to read these books in order, but I think there is a lot of repetition from book two and in book three. In book two you get to find out a lot of what happened to Clarissa before she gets to Womby School for Wayward Witches and parts of what magical events have taken place in her past. A little about her sister, her first boyfriend and even her real mother. Having read book three before book two, I didn’t find as much meat to the storyline as I might have, if I had read the books in order, thus my comment about making sure you read them in order! It is still an interesting book to read, with Clarissa struggling with her feelings and thoughts of magic, whilst everyone else around her tells her it doesn’t exist. The protections set up in place around her have started to fail and caused her to reach the magic within and all around. I received an ARC copy of this book from Hidden Gems and will be making sure I read the rest of the series in the correct order. I have freely given my own opinion of this book above.
Her latest attempt at a relationship, ended up with her older boyfriend having a heart attack and only just surviving, when she managed to use magic to revive him, or was that just her CPR skills at work? Her father is dead, as is her sister, but her mother tells her that magic is not real and she isn’t to blame for anyone’s death. Her escapades at various schools have been students seemingly turning into frogs, or a sex education class she gets forced into covering for, with bananas and teenage students, need I say more …. All she wants is to be an arts teacher and wonders how she will ever get through the end of her intern position if she can’t find another school to take her on?
Her mother looks out for her and always seems to be able to cook her a meal or make a smoothie that helps her to feel calmer. Adding in the medicine her mother reminds her to take, to help with her psychological issues – believing she is responsible for some of the strange things that have happened around her. Going to the local County Fair to perform her magic and juggling act seems a better option than trailing around the streets for tips, and a real chance to mix with others like her. Maybe she will get a contract! What she gets is far more than she ever could have thought. There are witches and ravens from the raven court, faes wanting to claim her for using magic in the normal world.
She does her magic act and something goes really weird and the audience seem to love her second act. Somehow something magical has happened, but her magical experiences are normally related to when she is sexually excited! Not what she would expect whilst on stage in front of an audience of weirdly dressed folk. Some look to be off their heads on exotic herbs and drugs and some dressed up as weird witches or in Halloween costumes. She learns from one, that her real mother was a wicked witch who caused a load of trouble in the magical world. She is warned that if she doesn’t reverse whatever magic that she managed to perform on one object, that she will be claimed by the raven queen. Claimed as a slave to a powerful fae ruler, rather than her dream job of being a teacher. Now, she has a headteacher and recruiter for a magic school who may save her and give her a chance at what she really wants.
Whatever you do, you really need to read these books in order, but I think there is a lot of repetition from book two and in book three. In book two you get to find out a lot of what happened to Clarissa before she gets to Womby School for Wayward Witches and parts of what magical events have taken place in her past. A little about her sister, her first boyfriend and even her real mother. Having read book three before book two, I didn’t find as much meat to the storyline as I might have, if I had read the books in order, thus my comment about making sure you read them in order! It is still an interesting book to read, with Clarissa struggling with her feelings and thoughts of magic, whilst everyone else around her tells her it doesn’t exist. The protections set up in place around her have started to fail and caused her to reach the magic within and all around. I received an ARC copy of this book from Hidden Gems and will be making sure I read the rest of the series in the correct order. I have freely given my own opinion of this book above.
May 15, 2018
Not on Kindle Unlimited, actually can't find amazon listing for about half the books except as paperback edition, and don't see some listed on goodreads/amazon one way or another. I do have ecopies of all these and several more of her books}, and really think write needs to go back through all her books and make sure there are listings for each book, all of them, on both amazon and goodreads, and for ebook and paperback. Maybe for others it wouldn't matter, but even though huge time travel fan, a story going back in forth etc is really hard for me to keep up, and feel as if missed something. Mean 3 as amazon does not {for them 3 means okay but negative} just mean it was okay, didn't really dislike nor like it. Have read some of her other books and liked or even really liked them, this series eh not so much 3 as in okay not bad negative amazon just middle of road story.
Clarissa Lawrence has been fired from multiple internships as a student teacher for reasons outside her control. Magical things keep happening to her . . . like the students turning into frogs. Her love life isn't any more normal, considering how her boyfriends keep mysteriously suffering from heart attacks.
Clarissa doesn't know how to explain it all. Like most twenty-one-year-olds who grew up reading the Harry Potter Series, Clarissa has always dreamed of escaping her mundane life by being invited to a magical school where good triumphs over evil, the administration is fair and kind, and schools don't suffer from budget cuts.
When Clarissa learns she is descended from a powerful sorceress, she would do anything to find the magical world where she knows she belongs. Only, the witches don't want her because her mother pulled a Wicked Witch of the West move on everyone. To make matters worse, a gang of evil Fae wants to kidnap and enslave her. Clarissa must escape little old ladies in gingerbread cottages, the evil school district psychologist who has always been out to get her, and a hoard of harpies before she can prove to the Witchkin that the bad apple falls farther from the tree that they'd guessed.
If she can do this, then maybe, just maybe her dreams will come true and she'll land that job teaching the dark arts and crafts.
WOMBY’S SCHOOL FOR WAYWARD WITCHES {A Cozy Witch Mystery}
Tardy Bells And Witches’ Spells 1
Hex-Ed: A Cozy Witch Mystery 2
Witches Gone Wicked: A Cozy Witch Mystery 3
Other books in the series to be released soon:
Secondhand Hexes
Hexes and Exes
Reading, Writing and Necromancy
Budget Cuts for the Dark Arts and Crafts
Hex and the City
Spell it Out for Me
== also see listing for the books below elsewhere
Spell Check Yourself Before You Wreck Yourself
Hex Crimes
My Crazy Hex Girlfriend
Clarissa Lawrence has been fired from multiple internships as a student teacher for reasons outside her control. Magical things keep happening to her . . . like the students turning into frogs. Her love life isn't any more normal, considering how her boyfriends keep mysteriously suffering from heart attacks.
Clarissa doesn't know how to explain it all. Like most twenty-one-year-olds who grew up reading the Harry Potter Series, Clarissa has always dreamed of escaping her mundane life by being invited to a magical school where good triumphs over evil, the administration is fair and kind, and schools don't suffer from budget cuts.
When Clarissa learns she is descended from a powerful sorceress, she would do anything to find the magical world where she knows she belongs. Only, the witches don't want her because her mother pulled a Wicked Witch of the West move on everyone. To make matters worse, a gang of evil Fae wants to kidnap and enslave her. Clarissa must escape little old ladies in gingerbread cottages, the evil school district psychologist who has always been out to get her, and a hoard of harpies before she can prove to the Witchkin that the bad apple falls farther from the tree that they'd guessed.
If she can do this, then maybe, just maybe her dreams will come true and she'll land that job teaching the dark arts and crafts.
WOMBY’S SCHOOL FOR WAYWARD WITCHES {A Cozy Witch Mystery}
Tardy Bells And Witches’ Spells 1
Hex-Ed: A Cozy Witch Mystery 2
Witches Gone Wicked: A Cozy Witch Mystery 3
Other books in the series to be released soon:
Secondhand Hexes
Hexes and Exes
Reading, Writing and Necromancy
Budget Cuts for the Dark Arts and Crafts
Hex and the City
Spell it Out for Me
== also see listing for the books below elsewhere
Spell Check Yourself Before You Wreck Yourself
Hex Crimes
My Crazy Hex Girlfriend
April 10, 2022
Clarissa has only wanted to be a art teacher but things keep happening that she can’t explain at the schools she is interning at. She keeps seeing a man around each time and wonders if he is responsible. She is older now and wants to experience things she hasn’t done but again strange things happen. She gets an offer to do a “magic” show at the fair where her older sister was taken for a while when they were kids and all sorts of things happen that finally convince her that her lifelong dream of being a witch is real even though she has always been told magic doesn’t exist.
This is the second book in the series and I for one can’t help but have empathy for Clarissa. She has always felt out of place like she doesn’t belong but these new experiences are calling to her to embrace a world and possibilities she never knew existed before.
I think readers old and young will enjoy this series so I recommend it as one, though fanciful, would ring true to young people especially who are trying to fit into the world around them. It’s a “coming of age” book in one respect as Clarissa finally understands just who she is and has a choice to make as to what her future will be and where she wants to live it.
This series takes place a little while after the Vega Bloodmire series and we meet Vega for the first time very briefly in this book as she is no longer at Lady of the Lake but at Womby’s now.
Clarissa wants to understand this world of magic and wants someone to help her to control her powers to help her become what she has always dreamed of being and never knew that was what she really was all along.
Sarina’s books are full of the desire to help others and learn to control one’s urges. I have enjoyed Vega’s series and I’m looking forward to enjoying Clarissa’s journey of discovery even though it’s going to be a rough go due to her discovery of who her real mother was in this new world she wants to be a part of.
This is the second book in the series and I for one can’t help but have empathy for Clarissa. She has always felt out of place like she doesn’t belong but these new experiences are calling to her to embrace a world and possibilities she never knew existed before.
I think readers old and young will enjoy this series so I recommend it as one, though fanciful, would ring true to young people especially who are trying to fit into the world around them. It’s a “coming of age” book in one respect as Clarissa finally understands just who she is and has a choice to make as to what her future will be and where she wants to live it.
This series takes place a little while after the Vega Bloodmire series and we meet Vega for the first time very briefly in this book as she is no longer at Lady of the Lake but at Womby’s now.
Clarissa wants to understand this world of magic and wants someone to help her to control her powers to help her become what she has always dreamed of being and never knew that was what she really was all along.
Sarina’s books are full of the desire to help others and learn to control one’s urges. I have enjoyed Vega’s series and I’m looking forward to enjoying Clarissa’s journey of discovery even though it’s going to be a rough go due to her discovery of who her real mother was in this new world she wants to be a part of.
August 23, 2025
Hex-Ed
Funny, sexy, scary, playful, childlike, and deep.
I’m surprised how much I’m enjoying the series, especially since it’s outside of my usual Military Historical Fiction genre. I was originally drawn to the whimsical artwork on the covers. What’s inside did not disappoint me. Sarina Dorie is definitely writing her passion, and sometimes I wonder if she’s actually a witch herself.
I was surprised by this second Wombly School for Wayward Witches novel, so much so that I had to check the genre. It is not Young Adult Fantasy, as I had assumed, but rather New Adult & College Fantasy, which makes a lot more sense to me now that I’ve read some of the more spicy scenes. They’re still tasteful, but whoa…! Dorie goes there, and it’s a lot of fun!
Hex-Ed picks up a few years after Tardy Bells and Witches’ Spells. Clarrisa Lawrence is all grown up now. She’s no longer a nerdy high schooler, but a college student trying to eke out a normal life after the tragic catastrophe at the end of the last book. She’s been convinced that magic isn’t real and that the things she’s seen and felt were nothing more than episodes of psychosis.
But all the medication and gaslighting cannot keep the magic away, or the Witchkin and Evil Fae who either want to enslave her, drain her of her power, or destroy her altogether. Clarrisa needs to learn the nature of her strange talents and how to control them before the forces of evil have their way.
Hex-Ed is a fun, short read. The print length is listed at 172 pages. I read it in a week and thoroughly enjoyed every minute of it. Dorie is a funny, witty writer who knows how to build a scene that bubbles over into hilarious chaos. She expertly leads you along with teasing and foreshadowing, rendering this story a real page-turner. I have the first eight books of the series. With two down, I’m excited to read on.
Funny, sexy, scary, playful, childlike, and deep.
I’m surprised how much I’m enjoying the series, especially since it’s outside of my usual Military Historical Fiction genre. I was originally drawn to the whimsical artwork on the covers. What’s inside did not disappoint me. Sarina Dorie is definitely writing her passion, and sometimes I wonder if she’s actually a witch herself.
I was surprised by this second Wombly School for Wayward Witches novel, so much so that I had to check the genre. It is not Young Adult Fantasy, as I had assumed, but rather New Adult & College Fantasy, which makes a lot more sense to me now that I’ve read some of the more spicy scenes. They’re still tasteful, but whoa…! Dorie goes there, and it’s a lot of fun!
Hex-Ed picks up a few years after Tardy Bells and Witches’ Spells. Clarrisa Lawrence is all grown up now. She’s no longer a nerdy high schooler, but a college student trying to eke out a normal life after the tragic catastrophe at the end of the last book. She’s been convinced that magic isn’t real and that the things she’s seen and felt were nothing more than episodes of psychosis.
But all the medication and gaslighting cannot keep the magic away, or the Witchkin and Evil Fae who either want to enslave her, drain her of her power, or destroy her altogether. Clarrisa needs to learn the nature of her strange talents and how to control them before the forces of evil have their way.
Hex-Ed is a fun, short read. The print length is listed at 172 pages. I read it in a week and thoroughly enjoyed every minute of it. Dorie is a funny, witty writer who knows how to build a scene that bubbles over into hilarious chaos. She expertly leads you along with teasing and foreshadowing, rendering this story a real page-turner. I have the first eight books of the series. With two down, I’m excited to read on.
February 20, 2021
Hex-Ed is the second part of Sarina Dorie's "Womby's School for Wayward Witches" series, featuring neophyte witch, Clarissa Lawrence.
Clarissa has always loved anything magical and fantastical, but her pragmatic mother is forever reminding her that magic isn't real. It's difficult for Clarissa to believe that, however, when odd, magical things keep happening around her. She's managed to muddle through her mundane life with the help of a licensed therapist and prescription medication. When she returns to the Oregon Country Fair, she encounters Witchkin, who seem to hate her because of who her mother is, Fae, who want to kidnap her, and even a pack of harpies. If she can survive, she might just get that coveted invitation to a magical school.
I was a trifle disappointed that this book picked up several years after the first one left off. Clarissa is now in her early twenties and intent on getting a college degree to teach art. She's now of an age to teach at a magical school, rather than study there. I found it confusing that the Witchkin knew who she was and where she'd been, but no one spirited her off to Womby's when it would have done her the most good? Why just allow her to flounder along, causing one disaster after another, while cleaning up after her? That made precious little sense. I did enjoy how Clarissa began to figure out things on her own and eventually put her foot down with her mom.
Overall, it was an enjoyable story. Four stars.
Clarissa has always loved anything magical and fantastical, but her pragmatic mother is forever reminding her that magic isn't real. It's difficult for Clarissa to believe that, however, when odd, magical things keep happening around her. She's managed to muddle through her mundane life with the help of a licensed therapist and prescription medication. When she returns to the Oregon Country Fair, she encounters Witchkin, who seem to hate her because of who her mother is, Fae, who want to kidnap her, and even a pack of harpies. If she can survive, she might just get that coveted invitation to a magical school.
I was a trifle disappointed that this book picked up several years after the first one left off. Clarissa is now in her early twenties and intent on getting a college degree to teach art. She's now of an age to teach at a magical school, rather than study there. I found it confusing that the Witchkin knew who she was and where she'd been, but no one spirited her off to Womby's when it would have done her the most good? Why just allow her to flounder along, causing one disaster after another, while cleaning up after her? That made precious little sense. I did enjoy how Clarissa began to figure out things on her own and eventually put her foot down with her mom.
Overall, it was an enjoyable story. Four stars.
December 19, 2018
Book2 Hex Ed by Sarina Dorie
[YA, Paranormal, school] 4 1/2☆s
Quite a bit of time is covered in this second episode, from childhood flashbacks to how she comes to be excepted at Wombleys School. The emotional losses and tramatic events that transpired to mold her into the resilient yet fragile young adult she has become. Stubborness may have had a hand in it too. She struggles to fit in while retaining as much of herself as possible. All these qualities make her someone readers can like. She is the misunderstood underdog we can root for. We feel the need for escape from the akwardness of real life right along with Clarissa. There are a number of other interesting characters populating her sphere of influence also, in this near real world set story. Ms. Dorie's own experiences as an educator and around school aged children are put to exceĺlent use as inspiration when building Clarissa's world and crafting the people in it. Her love of science fiction and fantasy are also easy to see. These genres are wonderful vehicles for writers and reader's to explore possibilities, philosophies and other lessons and theories that would be much harder to do in other types of fiction. Thank you.
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[YA, Paranormal, school] 4 1/2☆s
Quite a bit of time is covered in this second episode, from childhood flashbacks to how she comes to be excepted at Wombleys School. The emotional losses and tramatic events that transpired to mold her into the resilient yet fragile young adult she has become. Stubborness may have had a hand in it too. She struggles to fit in while retaining as much of herself as possible. All these qualities make her someone readers can like. She is the misunderstood underdog we can root for. We feel the need for escape from the akwardness of real life right along with Clarissa. There are a number of other interesting characters populating her sphere of influence also, in this near real world set story. Ms. Dorie's own experiences as an educator and around school aged children are put to exceĺlent use as inspiration when building Clarissa's world and crafting the people in it. Her love of science fiction and fantasy are also easy to see. These genres are wonderful vehicles for writers and reader's to explore possibilities, philosophies and other lessons and theories that would be much harder to do in other types of fiction. Thank you.
⚃This has been voluntary feedback of a Prolifric Works title.
February 5, 2019
This is the second book in Sarina Dorie’s Womby's School for Wayward Witches series. While this book falls under young adult as the series progresses the books feature more adult themes so I would not recommend it for younger readers. The author has intended for the books to be read out of order but I prefer to see the story develop chronologically.
This book begins about six years after the events in book one. Clarissa has tried to move on from the tragic events and is now trying to finish her teaching placements to become a certified art teacher. Unfortunately, she has been fired from all her placements so far because of odd occurrences. She has just been fired from her latest placement after a disastrous class on sex education where bananas suddenly resembled a certain part of the male anatomy. The state school psychologist from her childhood is still keeping an eye on her, she even meets him in a different district.
To make ends meet during the summer she works at a local craft fair where she comes to the attention of the organiser of the county fair who books her to perform a magic show at the same fair her sister disappeared from. Once there she finds the psychologist, Felix Thatch, in the audience, along with some other interesting characters. Running from him she finds herself at the mercy of a wicked witch and finally understands that she is a witch. It turns out Thatch is a recruiter for Womby’s school for wayward witches. The principal offers her a position at the school as art teacher where Thatch will act as her tutor in magical skills. There is only one issue, her biological mother was the previous headmistress and she was evil. The beings in the unseen realm will expect her to be exactly like her mother and the Raven Queen is waiting to capture her.
I really loved this book. Clarissa is still the dorky fantasy obsessed heroine who has now entered adulthood. Filled with hilarious misadventures usually with a sexual undertone that virgin Clarissa has difficulty handling. I was offered some of the books for review which is how I discovered this series but I did go back to the beginning, some are available on kindle unlimited, this title for example, and others I purchased.
This book begins about six years after the events in book one. Clarissa has tried to move on from the tragic events and is now trying to finish her teaching placements to become a certified art teacher. Unfortunately, she has been fired from all her placements so far because of odd occurrences. She has just been fired from her latest placement after a disastrous class on sex education where bananas suddenly resembled a certain part of the male anatomy. The state school psychologist from her childhood is still keeping an eye on her, she even meets him in a different district.
To make ends meet during the summer she works at a local craft fair where she comes to the attention of the organiser of the county fair who books her to perform a magic show at the same fair her sister disappeared from. Once there she finds the psychologist, Felix Thatch, in the audience, along with some other interesting characters. Running from him she finds herself at the mercy of a wicked witch and finally understands that she is a witch. It turns out Thatch is a recruiter for Womby’s school for wayward witches. The principal offers her a position at the school as art teacher where Thatch will act as her tutor in magical skills. There is only one issue, her biological mother was the previous headmistress and she was evil. The beings in the unseen realm will expect her to be exactly like her mother and the Raven Queen is waiting to capture her.
I really loved this book. Clarissa is still the dorky fantasy obsessed heroine who has now entered adulthood. Filled with hilarious misadventures usually with a sexual undertone that virgin Clarissa has difficulty handling. I was offered some of the books for review which is how I discovered this series but I did go back to the beginning, some are available on kindle unlimited, this title for example, and others I purchased.
January 29, 2019
Abra-cadaver?
This is the second in the series. It takes up about 6 yrs after the 1st book ends. Clarissa is student teaching as an art teacher. She needs to complete her assignment to receive her teaching license. The school has her subbing for the sex ed teacher in an unruly class. Things start happening that she can't control and the class is a disaster. She loses another teaching assignment. Clarissa gives up her apt and moves into her mother's home. Her father was killed by a drunk driver so her mother had moved to the same city as Clarissa to be close to her. Clarissa goes to a street fair to set up drawing caricatures, juggling, illusions, anything to make a few bucks. She meets a man who says he thinks she has real talent and wants to book her for a show; he's a talent scout for the Oregon Country Fair. She decides to go, despite her mother's pleas to stay away, and again she finds herself in more trouble than the last time she was there. Clarissa does, though, find some answers and she finally has a good talk with her mother.
While the story is evolving and leads you towards the next book in the series, I did not enjoy it as much as the first one. There are way more sexual situations which I could do without.
This is definitely not a book for children to read.
This is the second in the series. It takes up about 6 yrs after the 1st book ends. Clarissa is student teaching as an art teacher. She needs to complete her assignment to receive her teaching license. The school has her subbing for the sex ed teacher in an unruly class. Things start happening that she can't control and the class is a disaster. She loses another teaching assignment. Clarissa gives up her apt and moves into her mother's home. Her father was killed by a drunk driver so her mother had moved to the same city as Clarissa to be close to her. Clarissa goes to a street fair to set up drawing caricatures, juggling, illusions, anything to make a few bucks. She meets a man who says he thinks she has real talent and wants to book her for a show; he's a talent scout for the Oregon Country Fair. She decides to go, despite her mother's pleas to stay away, and again she finds herself in more trouble than the last time she was there. Clarissa does, though, find some answers and she finally has a good talk with her mother.
While the story is evolving and leads you towards the next book in the series, I did not enjoy it as much as the first one. There are way more sexual situations which I could do without.
This is definitely not a book for children to read.
November 18, 2018
Poor Clarissa Lawrence is the unluckiest person in the world. She is a witch who was never taught, being instead, hidden in the mortal realm. She caused a tornado that dropped a house on her sister and made her boyfriend Derrick disappear. She wants to teach art, but every time she is a student teacher, anything even remotely sexual causes her magic to go crazy. She is a 21 year old virgin and the last guy she tried to have sex with had a heart attack. She has spent her life being followed by a witch, Thatch who is just waiting for her to screw up. She first met him when she was 5, and freaked him out when she gave him a hug. Her birth mother was the most evil witch to ever live, and she has no idea why things keep going wrong with her. Every time she gets aroused or thinks of sex, lightning strikes, bananas turn into dancing penises, a guy gets overly turned on and can't control himself. etc... When she accidentally kills the Raven queen's minion, she is finally accepted to a teaching position at Wombly's and will also be taught how to control her powers, unless Thatch has anything to do about it, and he will get to drain her powers for good and make her a morty forever.
September 8, 2024
So, the first book was absolutely useless, Clarissa didn't learn anything or grown as a person. The last page of the first books ends with her finding a wand and promising to choose a different path than a muggle, just to come out that in 6 years she did nothing.
And of course her father (the only likeable character) was killed off since he had no purpose anymore. I'm pretty sure the whole series name is wrong, there's no magic school's life and it would have been better had Clarissa died and her sister turned the main character.
The first book wasn't too bad (apart from every effing adult being dumb and choosing the worst options: oh dear, your magic is SO dangerous, incidents keep happening, let's make sure we teach you nothing so you can keep killing people) but with this second one everything is resetted to point 0.
She did not practice magic or get better. She knows she's dangerous and keeps killing people. Oh, and let's go back to the fair where my sister almost died, then got changed for the worse and where I and my boyfriend also almost got killed. WHAT COULD GO WRONG?
An utter waste of time, I regret being desperate enough that I kept reading this disaster.
And of course her father (the only likeable character) was killed off since he had no purpose anymore. I'm pretty sure the whole series name is wrong, there's no magic school's life and it would have been better had Clarissa died and her sister turned the main character.
The first book wasn't too bad (apart from every effing adult being dumb and choosing the worst options: oh dear, your magic is SO dangerous, incidents keep happening, let's make sure we teach you nothing so you can keep killing people) but with this second one everything is resetted to point 0.
She did not practice magic or get better. She knows she's dangerous and keeps killing people. Oh, and let's go back to the fair where my sister almost died, then got changed for the worse and where I and my boyfriend also almost got killed. WHAT COULD GO WRONG?
An utter waste of time, I regret being desperate enough that I kept reading this disaster.
April 2, 2019
Womby's School for Wayward Witches #2. Weird things happen around Clarissa, like teaching sex-ed and having the bananas being used for demonstration turning into dancing penises. Her memory of these incidents turns hazy and her mother is insisting there is no such thing as magic. We know it's because her mother and the school psychologist are causing her to forget.
Clarissa is going to have to wait a bit more to get her teaching license. The incidents have caused her to not get enough student teaching hours. As a side line she's been drawing caricatures, doing sleight of hand magic and other tricks to make a few bucks. She gets recruited to put on a show at the Oregon Country Fair.
Fast, fun read with a lot of humor and some LOL moments. A little bit racy. Quite a few references to scenes that happened in Tardy Bells and Witches' Spells. I recommend reading them in order.
Clarissa is going to have to wait a bit more to get her teaching license. The incidents have caused her to not get enough student teaching hours. As a side line she's been drawing caricatures, doing sleight of hand magic and other tricks to make a few bucks. She gets recruited to put on a show at the Oregon Country Fair.
Fast, fun read with a lot of humor and some LOL moments. A little bit racy. Quite a few references to scenes that happened in Tardy Bells and Witches' Spells. I recommend reading them in order.
January 28, 2020
Wait a minute, what activates her magic?
Okay, so this one is interesting and you don't need to read Tardy Bells And Witches Spells to keep up with this book but it will help you to understand it better.
In this one, Clarissa is a student teacher trying to finish her internship so she can get a teaching license. She has been trying to be normal but since she is having a hard time affording her medication she keeps slipping and starting to think being magical would be nice.
I find that Clarissa is written as a very innocent and sheltered person and these books seem like they may be good for all ages but I would recommend parents to read before allowing their kids to. This has a young adult style with romance in the background.
Okay, so this one is interesting and you don't need to read Tardy Bells And Witches Spells to keep up with this book but it will help you to understand it better.
In this one, Clarissa is a student teacher trying to finish her internship so she can get a teaching license. She has been trying to be normal but since she is having a hard time affording her medication she keeps slipping and starting to think being magical would be nice.
I find that Clarissa is written as a very innocent and sheltered person and these books seem like they may be good for all ages but I would recommend parents to read before allowing their kids to. This has a young adult style with romance in the background.
June 14, 2020
Rcvd an advanced reader copy from the author for giving my two cents. We meet Clarissa as a child reading about unicorns at kindergarten,not fitting in with her peers and having a tall man in a suit watching her and asking questions. Fast forward to present day and Clarissa is student teaching in sex ed class when weird things happen that results in losing her placement. Its happened before at other schools...things that are unexplained and this dude keeps showing up every time. Her mother keeps dodging her questions and there is no one else to ask. Her dad died, she caused the death of her sister and the boy she loved. She dreams of magic but her mother keels pushing shrinks and meds on her. But the Country Fair is where she will find the answers to her questions...but st what cost?
August 5, 2020
Book 2 and I'm still as confused about Clarissa's magic as she is.
In book one, Clarissa is a teenager fascinated by magic and learns that she does in fact have some kind of powers. This book is now seven years later and she's trying to get a job teaching art. She's learning more about having powers but really had no idea what that power is or how to use it. Nothing is clear.
This series name is 'Womby's School...etc.' but, as in book one, the school doesn't come into play at all. Finally at the end of the book we hear about it. Maybe in book three they will actually be at the school. Maybe.
I liked the book but the back and forth of what her magic is and who knows what became tiresome. I don't think I'll be reading on.
In book one, Clarissa is a teenager fascinated by magic and learns that she does in fact have some kind of powers. This book is now seven years later and she's trying to get a job teaching art. She's learning more about having powers but really had no idea what that power is or how to use it. Nothing is clear.
This series name is 'Womby's School...etc.' but, as in book one, the school doesn't come into play at all. Finally at the end of the book we hear about it. Maybe in book three they will actually be at the school. Maybe.
I liked the book but the back and forth of what her magic is and who knows what became tiresome. I don't think I'll be reading on.
March 2, 2019
It's hard for me to get into a witch book, mostly because I'm a huge vampire freak when it comes to my reading but the cover for the book is what made me want to go for it and give it a try. From the start of the book, it had my eyes on each word as I read and that's very hard for me because I get bored and don't want to finish a book but not this one. I really enjoyed reading the book and it had me laughing from the start on the students picking at her with the sex talk. It might not be good for younger kids to read but for those who are of age and don't get creeped out by sex talks and stuff like that, it's a good book to read.
October 23, 2019
This second book in the Womby's School for Wayward Witches series by Sarina Dorie continued Clarissa's discovery about real magic and her attempts to control it while trying very hard not to kill anyone else or destroy too many things. This book is where we finally, but just barely, get to the Womby School part of the journey. Along the way, there are several humorous and not so funny trials for Clarissa to hurdle during her "routine" life, which of course, is anything but. This book expands and reveals many secrets, none of which I will be talking about here. Already have book 3 loaded in my TBR and ready to read. This is a voluntary review of this book.
January 21, 2020
Clarissa Lawrence knew from a young age that she was different. When she was young she wanted nothing more than to find out she was a witch, and to receive an invitation to an exclusive school for young witches. She still wants to be a witch, and she is beginning to suspect she has power. She finds out just how different she is when things start getting weird while she is a student teacher working toward her teaching degree.
Fascinating. funny characters, and a plot with surprising, and unexpected twists. Wonderful read that kept me laughing.
I am voluntarily leaving an honest and non-incentivized review of this ARC.
Fascinating. funny characters, and a plot with surprising, and unexpected twists. Wonderful read that kept me laughing.
I am voluntarily leaving an honest and non-incentivized review of this ARC.
September 21, 2020
I lost the review I wrote on this book, but that's okay--I'll reproduce it.
It's amusing and could possibly be the start of a decent series--an extremely twisty take on witches with a lot of tongue-in-check sexual situations. Funny thing is, this is the second book in the series...but I have no interest in reading the first. The story starts here with a young adult realizing that all the strange things that happen to her aren't just strange things happening to her.
So just to level-set, this is about witches and a non-Hogwarts universe. It's amusing, silly, light and not at all mind-improving. But it didn't bore me, so that's something.
It's amusing and could possibly be the start of a decent series--an extremely twisty take on witches with a lot of tongue-in-check sexual situations. Funny thing is, this is the second book in the series...but I have no interest in reading the first. The story starts here with a young adult realizing that all the strange things that happen to her aren't just strange things happening to her.
So just to level-set, this is about witches and a non-Hogwarts universe. It's amusing, silly, light and not at all mind-improving. But it didn't bore me, so that's something.
June 17, 2018
Loved it. Read it after Witches gone wicked. Filled in lots of things. But
Witches Gone Wicked was so well written that It gave lots of back info.. Look
forward to reading more from this author.. Her books are so dangerous
I have a serious problem of putting them down. >> Re read it. right off After
Twardy Bells And Witches Spells. Enjoyed it even more now that I read it in
the proper Order. Next up. A re read of Witches Gone Wicked. I'm even
more psyched to re read it now that I'm reading them in the correct order.
Witches Gone Wicked was so well written that It gave lots of back info.. Look
forward to reading more from this author.. Her books are so dangerous
I have a serious problem of putting them down. >> Re read it. right off After
Twardy Bells And Witches Spells. Enjoyed it even more now that I read it in
the proper Order. Next up. A re read of Witches Gone Wicked. I'm even
more psyched to re read it now that I'm reading them in the correct order.
June 30, 2018
Wow I love it. Now I know I did this wrong and read the third book first, but now I have finished the first and second book I am very excited for Clarissa having her real history revealed. I miss Derek and her father. Shame both characters were lovely. Her mum is trying so hard to keep her secret, but I am glad she has been so lovely and supportive and the confusion is over. I am loving this series of books. Read them you will not be disappointed. I have the next book ready to go thanks to Sarina Dorie. Cannot wait to read.
September 30, 2018
Book two in the Womby's School for Wayward Witches, Hex-Ed by Sarina Dorie gives the reader Clarissa's background, her growing up and college years and her life as an intern.
This young sexually frustrated witch is struggling with everything in her life, and decides to do magic at a country fair, and Wham......the fun starts.
This captivating and engaging story is quirky, funny and humorous as the reader follows Clarissa and the outcome in her use of magic.
The Author has used very creative imagination for this fun story.
This young sexually frustrated witch is struggling with everything in her life, and decides to do magic at a country fair, and Wham......the fun starts.
This captivating and engaging story is quirky, funny and humorous as the reader follows Clarissa and the outcome in her use of magic.
The Author has used very creative imagination for this fun story.
October 7, 2018
Awesome Must Read Sequel!
Clarissa is all grown up in this wonderfully well written sequel. Image Harry Potter not knowing what he was, only to go up with the Dursleys and living a muggle adult life. That is what student art teacher, Clarissa does. Unfortunately, the magical mishaps continue in hilarious full force! I would have loved to have been a student in one of Clarissa's classes, bananas and all. Another cliffhanger leads you to the next book in the series. This book has some mature themes and a scene, but is still good for all readers.
Clarissa is all grown up in this wonderfully well written sequel. Image Harry Potter not knowing what he was, only to go up with the Dursleys and living a muggle adult life. That is what student art teacher, Clarissa does. Unfortunately, the magical mishaps continue in hilarious full force! I would have loved to have been a student in one of Clarissa's classes, bananas and all. Another cliffhanger leads you to the next book in the series. This book has some mature themes and a scene, but is still good for all readers.
February 11, 2020
I received this as an advanced reading copy.
I didn't feel like I was missing a book but it turns out this is book two. But this was good enough that I need to go read book one. The characters are interesting, the plot interesting, and they don't give too much away that I feel like I'm reading a sort of mystery. The main character could come across as a little like she is whining too much. But given her life, you almost can't blame her. And it isn't so bad that it is annoying, because despite it, she keeps persevering. So I still feel comfortable giving this 5 stars.
I didn't feel like I was missing a book but it turns out this is book two. But this was good enough that I need to go read book one. The characters are interesting, the plot interesting, and they don't give too much away that I feel like I'm reading a sort of mystery. The main character could come across as a little like she is whining too much. But given her life, you almost can't blame her. And it isn't so bad that it is annoying, because despite it, she keeps persevering. So I still feel comfortable giving this 5 stars.
February 14, 2020
Clarissa Lawrence is a witch, but her true nature was hidden from her and she was told all the strange things that happened to her was her imagination. The story bounces all over and was hard to follow so I ended up skimming through a lot of the book since it kept talking about strange things that happened to her and she never progressed passed that and discovered her true self until the end of the book. This is the first in the series that I have read. The storyline sounded interesting, but the story didn’t deliver what the storyline portrayed. I voluntarily reviewed this book.
February 27, 2020
Much better than the first book! I was so disappointed in the writing of the first story and was hesitant to read this one but I'm so glad I did! This story jumps a few years ahead from the first and we find Clarissa is now an adult trying to get a teaching degree. Don't let the cover fool you, because this is not a kids book. One of the best scenes in this story is the sex-ed class. I look forward to reading the next one.
I received a review copy from Hidden Gems in exchange for an honest review.
I received a review copy from Hidden Gems in exchange for an honest review.
August 25, 2020
Like the first book, I found this story to be extremely frustrating. I really love the idea and the characters, but the explanation behind why everyone feels perfectly okay treating the MC like trash just doesn’t seem sensical to me... it’s one thing to be afraid of the equivalent of “Hitler’s daughter” turning bad, but another thing entirely to not even tell her who she is, continue to hide it from her, and still want her dead. I am going to go on to book 3 because I really like this funny world, but if some of the plot lines don’t start coming to SOME kind of conclusion, that will be it for me.
September 6, 2024
entertaining paranormal cozy mystery series
This is an entertaining paranormal cozy mystery series. A fun cast of characters in an entertaining storyline. This is the story about zombies school magic for wayward witches. First couple of books have been about Clarissa the young girl who believed in magic in the mortal realm. Someone from the witching world keeps wiping her memory and erasing her magic deeds and now she is 22 years old and a student teacher in the mortal realm. Things keep happening and once her magic is out. Read and see where it leads.
This is an entertaining paranormal cozy mystery series. A fun cast of characters in an entertaining storyline. This is the story about zombies school magic for wayward witches. First couple of books have been about Clarissa the young girl who believed in magic in the mortal realm. Someone from the witching world keeps wiping her memory and erasing her magic deeds and now she is 22 years old and a student teacher in the mortal realm. Things keep happening and once her magic is out. Read and see where it leads.
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