I bought one this book during the one of the Stuff Your Kindle Days last year. I loved the witchy vibes of the cover and the blurb and had high hopes for this. I just wanted it to be longer.  

This book has two points of view. The first is Faelene Carey and she owns Ink & Parchment, a bookstore in the small New England town of Thistleton. Not only is she a successful businesswoman, but she’s also secretly a witch who can transform into a cat. It's not that she minds it, there’s just one problem. She must find true love before the 13th year after her first transformation or else be cursed to spend the rest of her life as a cat. So now she is subjecting herself to the hell of dating apps and blind dates, Faelene is stuck in a hopeless tailspin toward tongue baths and a diet of mice. The second point of view is Aidan Kennedy, and he is a firefighter in the small town, and he stops by Faelene’s bookstore like clockwork. Faelene’s had a crush on him since the first time he walked through her door. He is polite and gorgeous but incredibly stoic. Try as she might, Faelene can’t seem to break through Aidan’s tough exterior. However, Aidan is holding his own secrets. It isn’t until rescues Faelene in cat form from a tree, that she begins to understand what makes him tick. With the covertly discovered information of Aidan’s mutual crush, she hatches a daring scheme involving both her human and cat forms to get him to open up. With Aidan’s secrets unlocked can Faelene make a move in time to see if he’s her true love? Or will she be doomed to be a cat forever? 

I think the storyline was strong and I enjoyed the small-town vibes and witchy, Halloween vibes and that comes from someone who really hates Halloween. I love that this book was about embracing your hobbies and embracing your weirdness and how Aidan went from being this quiet nerd to embracing his nerd. Obviously Faelene is living all our dreams of owning a bookshop in a small town and I love that everyone was low key afraid of her because of this badass attitude she had, and I loved that she was using her magic to embarrass the firefighters that Aidan in front of her and in front of everyone. I love Faelene’s best friends, and I wanted to see more of them throughout the book and I just adore them.  

I feel like the love was rushed and very insta-love vibes and I just hate insta-love. I would have loved for a slow-burn, I understand that it was describes that these two had been pining over each other for years, but I would have loved like a flashback to all the recs Faelene gave Aidan and when they first met. I would have loved just a couple of chapters before we got right into it from the slow burn, but it was a case of Faelene’s been on another bad date, next day Aidan walks in, they bump into each other, and they are both just can’t communicate. I didn’t like that the conflict and resolution was all in one long chapter, I would have liked for Aidan to have found out about her being a witch earlier and then freaking out and then both being worried whether she was going to turn into a cat forever. I ended up skimming over the smut because it went from a little bit of smut to being like teenagers who can’t keep their hands of each other so towards the end I was just getting bored of it. 

I loved the fall and witchy vibes, and I would have loved more plot and more backstory and maybe less smut in the next book in the series.