The Modern Girl’s Guide to Magic follows Aria who is a powerful witch with little to no control of her power. She left her small hometown in Charming Cove behind years ago and moved into big city life. But with her magical failures following her with every step, she is soon called back home to save her family shop when the owner of a magical enchanted garden in Aria’s hometown wants to retire.

If you’re looking for a cosy, witchy romance book with a low stakes plot, this is definitely for you. However, if you expect this to be enemies to lovers and have spice, leave that idea behind. It’s more of a one side enemies to lovers story and Aria pretty much ends up changing her mind and ends up liking him a couple of chapters in anyways and that “spice” scene is VERY mild.

This book definitely started off strong but felt a little bit weak towards the end. There wasn’t much conflict happening so when there was something, it got solved rather quickly. Furthermore, for a book that has a dual POV, there was very few Callan chapters. I felt like it would’ve been better to have the book marketed more towards Young Adult rather than Adult as it reads more like a YA book, but that’s just my opinion.

However, I enjoyed reading about the magic and felt like it was different compared to other magical elements that I tend to gravitate towards. And Catrina!! I love her character and would love to see her have a spin off book so I read all about her being the smartest witch because let’s face it. She could be more powerful than Aria and Callan because of her brains.

Thank you NetGalley for providing me with an ARC in exchange for an honest review.