Supernatural Singles, Book 3
By April Asher, Pub Date 2/13/2024
5*s, Best enjoyed when you need some spice, snark, and fated romance.
Publisher’s Synopsis
“Olive Maxwell much prefers teaching about the supernatural world to taking part in it and leaves the magical shenanigans to her two sisters—the Prima Apparent and Bounty Hunter in Training. But after assigning her college students a project designed to nudge them outside their comfort zones, Olive realizes she’s never once stepped a toe out of her own . . . and it’s about time that changed. Her first trip into the unknown? Moving in with her longtime crush, and friend . . . tattooed, motorcycle-riding, and pleasantly pierced Baxter Donovan.
Bax Donovan, Guardian Angel not-so-extraordinaire, has acquired so many black marks on his record it looks like a Scantron test. He’s been given one last chance to keep his Guardian wings intact—a high-profile Assignment he knows all too well. Olive is usually as low-risk as it gets. Hell, she wrote the safety manual. But something landed her on the Guardian Angel[NS1] Affairs radar, and he guesses it has something to do with the heart-pounding stunts she’s determined to check off her Dare I Docket list.
Keeping Olive out of trouble is about to be his toughest Assignment yet, and not because he’s forced to shake the dust off his feathers and embrace his inner aerialist. He’s at real risk of shattering the only Guardian Angel code of conduct rule he’s yet to break: Don’t fall in love with your Assignment. And he isn’t so sure that’s a bad thing.
If love didn’t play by the rules, why should they?”
REVIEW:
APRIL ASHER – You, my dear, are always such a genius! I’ve had the absolute pleasure of reading all three of the current installments available in the Supernatural Singles series and each one gets better.
I will be honest. I am an academic. I am short, thick, and introverted. I absolutely see myself in Olive and her List. We could all use a little stroll outside of our comfort levels at times, and I adored this story of Olive pushing her bounds, and Bas somehow always being there to catch her if she falls – even though that had nothing to do with fate.
It was so great to see Bas and Olive’s developing feelings and the heat was there in a huge way. There were definitely moments when I had little room for anything outside of reading this book and I finished it super quick. Bas….oh, Bas…Sweet, troubled, tough, quiet Bas. The tattoos? The piercings? Heavens the piercings. I honestly had visceral reactions to some of those scenes.
As always, I loved the banter and support between the characters. Still well thought out, still absolutely realistic and three dimensional. Romantic and hilarious, I will always recommend these books to my fellow Romantasy lovers.
Thanks to Netgalley, April Asher, and St. Martin’s Press for an advanced copy in exchange for this review.
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