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Lilou Adler is a student at the Bastan College for Applied Physics: a magic school focussed on training adult witches and warlocks to become Enforcers. As an Enforcer-in-training, she is one of the many tasked with keeping each generation of fairy tale creatures on track with their fates. There are just a few problems: 1. Being tasked with the all-important "Cinderella" tale as her first assignment had to be a clerical error. 2. Prince Charming is too busy chasing fairy "tail" to settle down.3. Cinderella has sticky fingers and boundary issues.4. A certain someone is hell-bent on taking her out of commission, but not even the High Warlock of Bastan can stop this witch when she gets started. Arlo Demarcus is the High Warlock of Bastan and it's his job to investigate magical crimes and to enforce magical law. It's also his job to protect the next target in a string of magical murders: Lilou Adler.There are just a few problems: 1. Lilou being tasked with the all-important "Cinderella" tale as her first assignment had to be a joke. 2. A certain someone is hell-bent on making his job a living hell, but there's no way a twenty-something Enforcer-in-training is going to stop this warlock when he gets started. This is a full, standalone novel. It is book #1 of the Bastan Hollow Saga, but each book CAN be read as a standalone.
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2 primary booksBastan Hollow Saga is a 2-book series with 2 released primary works first released in 2018 with contributions by Jane Washington.
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DNF @ 68%
I went into this one with a lot of excitement since I have read and enjoyed other books by Jane Washington. While it started off interesting, I just wanted more background from the book and never really understood the magic or how exactly the fairy tales would affect the human world. I can take some crazy and confusion if the book is a fun crazy though...
The romance isn't there like at all? I was so shocked that I felt absolutely no chemistry between the two main characters and surprised that they barely interact. He also does a ton of questionable things, like next level Edward Cullen.
I was willing to push through, because I wanted to know how it would end. I couldn't when rape was being used as a joke– joke for the author, not the characters. This is another place where not understanding how the fairy tales have to be done comes into play, but more importantly considering and getting people onboard to rape someone, even if they are a guy, is not okay. LIKE SO NOT OKAY. It was actually disgusting to read about. I tried going farther hoping someone would be horrified, but no. I had to stop.
10/10 do not recommend, unfortunately :(