Review of The Devil Made Me Brew It by Sarah Piper

Synopsis:
Lucifer meets Practical Magic in this opposites attract witchy rom-com brimming with sass, spice, and small-town charm!

What’s a broke tea witch to do when she’s about to lose her beloved café?

No idea, but chugging magic mojitos and drunk-summoning the Devil was definitely the wrong call.

Now, I’m stuck with the house guest from Hell—literally—and we couldn’t be more opposite: a homebody who brews healing teas and reads romance novels to her cats versus a sexy-as-sin playboy with a pitchfork tattoo on his butt and a fondness for public day-drinking. In the nude. Ergo, the pitchfork discovery.

Infuriating!

I’ve tried to send the Dark Prince packing, but the spell won’t let him leave—not until he unlocks my so-called “heart’s desire.”

Well. My only desire is to clear my debt and save the café, which would be a lot easier if I wasn’t so distracted by his stupidly charming British accent.

Or the smile that keeps incinerating perfectly innocent panties.

Or the spellbinding, toe-curling, never-should’ve-happened kiss at the Wayward Bay Halloween Ball that has me believing in a different kind of magic:

Love.

So maybe the real question is… What’s a broke tea witch to do when she’s about to lose her café and her heart?

Review:
I absolutely adored this book from the beginning. It was a bit cheesy, and definitely a “witch and devil could be in a Hallmark movie”, but there was no pretending it was anything but–even the characters joke about how everything is falling together too well, too perfectly and that was exactly what I was in the mood for and needed when I read this book. This is a quick easy cozy romantasy with high stakes but showcasing a wonderful found family and love. There was a great, perfect amount of spice between the two main characters, and their relationship never really felt forced but growing gradually as they got to know each other. There were a few times that I wondered what, exactly, Devlin saw in his “mushroom” girl since she didn’t seem to have any self confidence. I think that, perhaps, a lot of it may have had to do with the fact she wasn’t instantly willing to throw herself at him, but that isn’t necessarily explicitly stated. I definitely hadn’t seen the twist ending of what was going on in the town, and that made this read all the better! This book very much had Lucifer vibes, but I as I haven’t read or watched Practical Magic (I know, a travesty!) I cannot comment on whether or not it was reminiscent of that.

All in all I loved this book, it was a cozy modern romantasy, that made me want to start brewing my own tea instead of just picking one of the dozens of blends in my cupboard. Kudos to my husband for trying my first attempted brew of honeysuckle and jasmine green tea–did you know you’re supposed to brew honeysuckle for 10 minutes?!

Star rating: ✯✯✯✯✯