Secret organizations, spies and intrigue. Magic, spells gone wrong and secret powers. Heists and enemies becoming lovers. The potential for awesomeness was there, I just didn't vibe with the way it was executed.

First of all, present tense narration always steals a weary sigh out of me since, every time I see it I know, without exception, there'll be mixed up tenses ahead. I don't know what it is about that present tense, but it always happens that those pesky past conjugations unerringly manage to sneak their way in, and this book wasn't the exception.

But besides, I just found the chosen style of prose very off-putting in general. There was an abuse of run-on-sentences-connected-by-dashes that I just found to be super annoying. The overall narration tone of the novel felt very juvenile—particularly considering the main characters were both around 30 years old—and difficult to read.

What's even more, to me the book felt unfinished. There was all this talk of scary secret organizations and rebellions groups locked in a shadow war for power and then nothing happened—not that the danger ever felt real or near in the first place, since nothing was shown, only talked about—but it was a disappointment to see the all tension built off that supposed doom fizzle out into nothing and not play even the slightest role in Tilda and Gil's story. It simply got dealt with during the cut to black between the main timeline and the epilogue, and will apparently be addressed in future books involving Tilda's sisters? I feel low-key scammed.

All in all, aside from what was, in my opinion, a mid plot that didn't deliver on the stakes it had set up and bland characters, it was ultimately the writing style that marred my enjoyment of this book. If the blend of a Six of Crows type story mixed with witchy-core cute romance sounds like something that would appeal to you, and the narration doesn't put you off, you may actually like Witcha Gonna Do? It just wasn't the book for me.