Sweet & Bitter Magic

"Sweet and Bitter Magic is a Sapphic adventure- fantasy. The romance is sweet without being too descriptive. The characters are well-developed. Wren and Tamsin are on the same adventure but learn completely different things about themselves."

"Dnf 50% of the way thru.<br/><br/>For the love of all magic I couldn't get into this. Tamsin though terrible, actually was a unique character though I don't think she was explored enough or given enough spark. Her unique trait could have brought around a lot of intrigue. Wren was ok. She starts to open up 200 pages in but about that time I didn't care anymore.<br/><br/>This was a character driven story except they were not well rounded. The writing itself was too straight forward bypassing the essentials. Some people who seemed important kind of faded away and was never heard of again. Creatures were often brought up, trolls, and sprites but nothing much became of it.<br/><br/>Dang I just need to say that map was wicked cool. Being able to follow along as the two girls traveled was wonderful, always one of my favorite things. It also occurred to me while reading about Tamsin, that with the absence of love she treated people without deference. The only way to explain is, it was like a person on drugs, so caught up in their high or next hit they are impervious to others feelings. It was very insightful but again should have been flushed out.<br/><br/>To start the story really felt like the one for me but later on I realized it was missing depth and sincerity. The relationship was slow growing yes, still it wasn't organic. They didn't feel drawn to each other or they would have found one another 5 years previous. The map was amazing, yes, but I didn't see the hardship of the travel. The colors of the magic, the heartbreak, I couldn't grasp it even though I tried. The banter was fun but not enough it seems.<br/><br/>'What sort of secrets did Tamsin posses that she'd lock into such a well-protected book? Perhaps it had special spells for being a grump, or maybe a list of names of people she wanted to hex.'"

"Fantasy, romance, dark fantasy, cozy fantasy. WLW. Main character is cursed so they can’t feel love of any kind. Disease is spreading across the world, she goes on an adventure with another girl to fix it all. Trigger Warnings Death, violence child death. Difficulty level 2/5. 3⭐️"

"wren is an icon and thrive to get like her"

"March 2021"

"love this book! great enemies to lovers with a bit of forced proximity. sweet ending, good tension throughout, great descriptiveness."

"Technically a 3.5/5, but rounding up because I overall really liked it & think that during a reread I can learn to appreciate it more. The audiobook definitely made it a little harder for me to fully love this book (one of the narrators was very robotic with delivery). While the romantic relationship felt very rushed, I loved the world, magic system & history in the book, hence the 4 stars."

"A Poetic fairytale with a beautiful slow burn sapphic love story.<br/>The two main characters Wren and Tasmin both had distinct and well written prespectives. I did find sometimes Wren's view of Tasmin sometimes didn't make sense, like she knew Tasmin was cursed yet kept acting surprised and angry when Tasmin's curse showed, in the end though that didn't effect the enjoyment of the story that much. And Tasmin and Wren's development both separately and together was wonderful too read.<br/>"

"This book is SO GOOD!!!!! 10/10 highly recommend"

"sapphic enemies to lovers. need i say more??? "