I'm quite disappointed with the later part of the book, unfortunately. The first part of the book was pretty good, I had hoped it would get better but I feel like the deeper we got into it, the more it felt like this book is all over the place. An important thing I want to address is that I'm not a prudish reader and I love spicy books just as much as the next spicy reader, but I didn't expect the sex scenes from this book to be on the page. Maybe it's my fault for not doing proper research on the book and judging a book by the cover, but I assumed it was a pg-13 cozy vibey book and it's not. I'll be honest and say that I've read books with on page sex scenes before I turned 13 but it's not about the age for me, tbh, it's that I feel like it didn't belong here, it's not necessary to the story.
I also feel like it got so messy at the end with the way they tried to resolve their problems. I mean, finding out that four grown-ass adults who are supposed to be responsible for three very impressionable kids decided to hide Lilian's body instead of dealing with it from the beginning is kind of stupid and makes me think less of them. The lawyer isn't the bad guy here, even if the author tries to portray him as such. I also think that Mika being more angry that they kept a secret from her instead of being angry that they even did it in the first place is nonsense. Forget about what the secret is, I don't know why she'd expect them to trust her when they didn't even know her at first. It's really not something to be angry about, and it's honestly a red flag if anyone thought they were entitled to my secrets before I got to know them well.
Finally, Primrose at the end arguing with Mika about the kids - first, that the kids can't stay together because witches can't be together. Then later that her sister wanted the kids to be raised by a witch. Was she going to raise them? Because she obviously didn't raise Mika and left her with nannies instead. It's like, Primrose is the leader of a secret witch society and she allowed her own trauma to dictate the Rules for every single witch in her society? That's really fucked up. That whole convo revealing Primrose's issues and reasons for coming up with those Rules, that's abusive and horrifying.