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No surprises here with the ending. It was all rather formulaic.

Persephone is much more appealing to read about when the author isn't trying to throw around a lot of young people slang. She's been fine for chapters and then all of a sudden Persephone's calling some girl basic. In the parlance of my (older) generation: Gag me with a spoon.

How can they own a completely paid off piece of property and owe a half a million in debt? They own a business, so it's not like they don't have an income to pay bills. And its not unpaid taxes, because they aren't dealing with the IRS.

"She'll tell us when she's good and ready." What the absolute fuck?! Y'all aren't gonna point out that it's her keeping secrets that fucked the whole household over in the first place? There is no reason for her to keep this secret. Keeping it solves nothing. Shit like this as a plot device pisses me off so much.

The use of the word "lit" makes it seem more like "How do you do fellow kids?"

Surprise, surprise... Two other men against the witches are named Bartholomew Gedney and John Hathorne.l

Everything about this book is too on the nose. "Men's World", a tequila that stokes anti-witch sentiment called "Salem Witch Trials", a witch-run distillery called "Moonshyne"...

The names are all terribly on the nose. It's not even subtle. A promiscuous witch named Jezebel? A botany witch named Ivy? The town's asshole preacher named Cotton fucking Mather? I am impressed the author restrained herself from naming the clairvoyant witch Sibyl or Cassandra.