Mr. & Mrs. Witch

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Thank you to Netgalley and St. Martin's Griffin for providing an ARC copy of this novel in exchange for an honest review.

I had pretty high hopes for Mr & Mrs Witch, and ultimately, the book didn't live up to them. While this paranormal romance book is heavily (and I mean heavily) inspired by Mr. and Mrs. Smith, it just fell a little short of being something worth recommending. If you've seen the aforementioned movie just once, then you'll know where this book is going. Literally. It's almost an exact copy of the first part of the movie, but with witches.

Savvy and her beau, Griffin, are both living secret lives from one another. Savvy is a witch, who also happens to be a sort of spy who goes out and neutralizes harmful magic. Griffin does much of the same thing, but also hunts down witches. It is unclear if he's ever killed a witch, or if he just sort of stops them using their magic and sends them on their way. (This should have been a bigger deal!) Their secret lives come to light on the day of their wedding, and well, everything goes to hell in a hand basket, as it were. Savvy is a sassy, does-what-she-wants sort of woman. I liked her! I also really loved that her familiar was a huge black panther. Way cool. Griffin was sort of a limp rag of a person, but with some small interesting bits. We really don't see much of who he is, unfortunately. And yes, this book is dual POV, so that leaves a lot out. Either way, they were decently cute together, but there were huge swathes of the book that felt unrealistic. But Jordyn, you say, this is a paranormal romance novel, it's not supposed to be realistic! Uh the RELATIONSHIP can be realistic, my friends. And that's what I'm talking about here.

Could you really stay with someone else after finding out both of you were lying about almost everything? I'm not sure I could. The steamy scenes were pretty gosh darn steamy — I think there were three? Total? Nothing was closed door, thankfully! There's a good one that takes place in a car after a chase. That one was memorable!

There were some bits of neat world building sprinkled throughout the book — I loved all of the familiars, personally. I loved the idea of CRONE and HUNTER. But other than that, this one just fell a little flat for me. I wanted it to be better than it was — especially the ending, which feels more than a little convenient or contrived. Not going to spoil it for anyone because we don't do that here, but I did find myself wondering out loud, “That's it?” Oh well.