Review: Written (The Librarian's Coven Book 1) by Kathryn Moon

Written by Kathryn Moon
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

A Wonderful Reverse Harem Fantasy

This book has been recommended to me several times by Amazon and by groups on Facebook. I finally decided to read it after it popped up the third time and I’m so glad I did.

This author has created a magical world, based in a location bound to appeal to any reader, a library. The library is located at a magical university. The Main Female Character (MFC) is Joanna, a librarian from a small country town. She applied for a job at the university library and was stunned to be offered the job. She’d never left her home town and the university was overwhelming to her.

The head librarian, Gwen, was welcoming and supportive and was an interesting support character, who also introduced Joanna, as well as the reader, to her coven and other members of staff. We learn about the coven system, whereby magic users bond together in small groups to make a coven, which is like a marriage with multiple parties and is magical as well as emotional in nature.

Three professors at the university are in an incomplete coven and have been for many years. As each member meets Joanna they are drawn to her, but she believes she isn’t a witch. The three coven members are determined to woo Joanna and convince her that her small abilities for charms makes her enough of a magic user to qualify for the coven.

The writing in this work is very elegant and beautiful in it’s descriptions. I love the different ways that magic is created and worked and the descriptions of the use of magic is very beautiful. The way the author describes the library, the university grounds and the homes of the characters is articulate and makes me want to step inside that world to witness it's wonders. In fact I want to live in the library, it sounds wondrous!

The sex scenes are romantic and erotic and whilst they are plentiful, they don’t feel gratuitous but a necessary part of the story as the characters bond and their individual relationships are established.  The romance part of the story is beautiful and full of ups and down, but the plot, aside from the romance, is also strong. I found it very hard to stop reading in order to do things like eat! I will definitely be reading the next in the series, as I’m interested to see what happens to the coven next!

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