Returning to Everton by Scarlett PhilipsMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
Sweet Second Chance Reverse Harem
First off, beware the cliffhanger, it’s a doozy. I knew there was one coming when we got to around 90% and were nowhere near done with the story. It seems the author agreed with me and decided the story needed another book.
This book is about Rowen. She’s a 30-year-old widowed mother who also happens to be a magic-user, who lives amongst ‘norms’. Her husband was not a magic user and didn’t like that Rowen and her daughter were, and demanded that they didn’t practice magic. Rowen’s husband has been dead for 6 months and she has decided it’s time to return to her home town where she and her daughter can practice magic openly. In a town of magic users, her family and best friend will be around and her best male friends might let her apologise for dropping off the face of the Earth when she met her husband.
Rowen always loved her male friends, Kayden and Auden, the twins, Hudson, the leader, and Nate, the bad boy. Magic users sometimes have multiple partner relationships so it’s not that out there that she could be with all four guys, but she didn’t think they felt that way for her. She met her husband when she went away to college and she never really went back, especially as her husband disapproved of her guys.
When Rowen comes back home, she meets up with her guys again, and their friend Declan and Declan’s young son, who the guys helped raise alongside Declan when his wife died in childbirth. None of the guys had it easy when Rowen left, because they loved her and couldn’t understand how she could walk away and not look back.
This is actually a pretty sweet book. I love all the little magic touches, such as making a dream playhouse for Rowen’s daughter that magically alters depending on what the child wants to play with, and telekinesis being used for baking. Rowen’s daughter, Violet, is really sweet and the character interacts as a unique personality, which sometimes doesn’t happen in books, where young children are part of the plot.
The plot is interesting, and in some places quite disturbing. There was also some heat in the bedroom, though I felt the BDSM scene was a little shaky. Mainly the romance part of this book is sweet, and that is sometimes exactly what you want in a romance.
Like I said the cliffhanger is a bit of a doozy, so be prepared to be annoyed if the next book isn’t out (I’m not sure when it comes out, or if it’s out already) because it is a bit emotional. I really hope the book comes out soon!
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