Overall: B

"Debate and Decadence" is a magical cozy fantasy. The story is about the sapphic romance between Amaya, a solitary witch living alone in her forest cottage, and Rue, the disruptive, bubbly, upper crust girl who claims they are fated to be together. 

The two girls are an "opposites attract" relationship. Amaya's stoic, practical nature clashes with Rue's talkative, idealistic personality. I honestly disliked Rue forcing herself into Amaya's life at the beginning (mostly due to me seeing this happen so often in anime). At the start, Rue's personality did not help with that feeling but she did gradually grow on me. While she did have an upper-class upbringing with servants and a life of luxury, she was willing to cook, clean and do manual work to help make Amaya's life easier. It's was refreshing to see two people from completely different backgrounds try to understand each other rather than the usual trope of "rich person learning how the other half lives the hard way." These attempts at mutual understandings did help make some cute moments which did redeem Rue's initial impression.

There are a few downsides. One reason Rue runs to Amaya is due to Rue's perceived mistreatment by her family but this part isn't really resolved. There are some clunky sentences and punctuation errors. The world building was really lacking. I didn't really understand Amaya's magical abilities, Rue's heritage or how their society worked. 

Otherwise I think this novella is a good choice if you need a cute, low stakes, short romance to tide you over.