A Demon's Guide to Wooing a Witch (24 in 2024 #20)

Author: Sarah Hawley
Title: A Demon's Guide to Wooing a Witch
Publisher: Berkley
Date Published: 11/28/2023

Read Dates: 10/08/2024 - 10/10/2024
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

A Demon’s Guide to Wooing a Witch is a dual POV enemies to lovers paranormal romance. When the powerful soul bargainer demon Astaroth is banished to earth he winds up with amnesia. Calladia, a strong witch, comes to his defense during a demon attack before realizing who he is. Her sense of justice won’t allow her to turn her back on the defenseless demon, so the unlikely duo team up, just long enough to restore his memory then it’s back to being enemies!

I loved revisiting Glimmer Falls and this book! I wasn’t sure how Sarah Hawley was going to redeem Astaroth after the first book but this worked perfectly! Plenty of banter and spice, it was a great October read!

Calladia Cunnington knows she's rough around the edges, despite being the heir to one of small-town Glimmer Falls' founding witch families. While her gym obsession is a great outlet for her anxieties and anger, her hot temper still gets the best of her and manifests in bar brawls. When Calladia saves someone from a demon attack one night, though, she's happy to put her magic and rage to good use . . . until she realizes the man she saved is none other than Astaroth, the ruthless demon who orchestrated a soul bargain on her best friend.

Astaroth is a legendary soul bargainer and one of the nine members of the demon high council--except he can't remember any of this. Suffering from amnesia after being banished to the mortal plane, Astaroth doesn't know why a demon named Moloch is after him, nor why the muscular, angry, hot-in-a-terrifying-way witch who saved him hates him so much.

Unable to leave anyone in such a vulnerable state--even the most despicable demon--Calladia grudgingly decides to help him. (Besides, punching an amnesiac would be in poor taste.) The two set out on an uneasy road trip to find the witch who might be able to restore Astaroth's memory so they can learn how to defeat Moloch. Calladia vows that once Astaroth is cured, she'll kick his ass, but the more time she spends with the snarky yet utterly charming demon, the more she realizes she likes this new, improved Astaroth . . . and maybe she doesn't want him to recover his memories, after all.