Review: The Coffee House Witch & The Hangover Potion by Ariana Jade

The Coffee House Witch & The Hangover Potion (The Cobblestone Coven #2)
by Ariana Jade

My Rating: 4 stars

Genre: Cozy Fantasy
Age Category: Adult
Type of romance: f/f

Blurb:
Return to the witchy Cobblestones where Cassiopeia’s next challenge awaits. This time, she’s making hangover potions for the seniors of the neighbourhood who are living much wilder lives than her. Since her magic is still playing up, she has to recruit her childhood friend Faye and the grumpy cat Balthazar for help.

Can she keep the headaches to a minimum or is it an impossible challenge?
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The Coffee House Witch & The Hangover Potion is the second book in the Cobblestone Coven series and it follows witch Cassiopeia and her return to her hometown. It’s a cozy fantasy with a sapphic romance in a magical world with talking animals and lots of light-hearted banter.

My Review

I received a copy from the author and voluntarily reviewed it.

While I wasn’t fully onboard after reading the first book, I was hopeful my issues would get less as the series progressed and decided to continue the series. I enjoyed this second book a lot more. Cassie seems more settled back in the Cobblestones. She’s starting to see her breakup wasn’t all bad and her ex wasn’t that good of a match for her. And there’s more magic and potion brewing in this one. All in all I had a great time with this one and enjoyed this fun cozy read.

In this book Cassie has been asked to create hangover potions for her grandmother’s friends. So she has to collect the ingredients and figure out how to brew the potion as her magic has been acting up. I liked how there was more about magic and potion brewing in this book. I especially liked seeing how Cassie brewed the potion, from collecting to ingredients to the actual brewing. I also liked seeing how Faye was there to help her and I liked seeing these two interact and revitalize their friendship with hints of a romance blossoming.

I enjoyed reading about Cassie more in this book. I like how she’s more settled now being back in her hometown and enjoying living with her grandmother and working in the coffee house. I liked how she’s starting to see her ex wasn’t all that good for her and she’s slowly moving on. I liked seeing her realize she’s developing feelings for Faye and the two of them are fun to read about. Faye is such a fun character and I like how they help each other out and are there for the other in this one.

I also liked learning a bit more about the whole magic system with the deities and Cassie is taking steps to resolve her magic issues. I also like seeing more of her grandmother’s familiar Betsy the cat who lives at the coffee house with them. And there is more of Balthazar, the grumpy cat. I like seeing him and Cassie interact and I look forward to the next book as it seems there will be more about him there.

To summarize: I enjoyed this book and am glad I decided to continue the series. Cassie is more fun to read about in this book and I liked reading about her, seeing her interact with Faye and working on regaining her magic and brewing potions. I liked learning a bit more about the deities and how that all worked. It also was nice to see Cassie feel a bit more settled and realize her ex wasn’t that good for her and slowly starting to move on and developing feelings for Faye. I also enjoyed reading about the grumpy cat Balthazar and I look forward to the next book.

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