Book Review: Hexy Beast (The Sherwood Witches Book 3) by Avery Flynn

Hexy Beast (The Sherwood Witches Book 3)
by Avery Flynn
September 8, 2026 
Book 3 of 3: The Sherwood Witches
Genre: rom-com, paranormal romance, shifters
An impulsive witch and a buttoned-up werewolf discover love is its own beast in this spicy rom-com from USA Today bestselling author Avery Flynn.

As the eldest daughter of the magical Sherwood family, I’m supposed to have everything together. Well, joke’s on them—I, Effie Sherwood, am chaos incarnate, and you’ll never be able to guess my next move.

Like jumping on the back of Darius Aetos’ motorcycle. Not only is Darius grumpy, gruff, and hot, he’s also the head of the Aetos werewolf pack.

My spur of the moment decision has quickly become a much bigger commitment, because a pack elder is convinced this hunk of a man (or wolf, depending on the hour) is my fated mate.

Even though I’m a witch and he’s a werewolf, we’re stuck together until we can find our way out of the tricky pack politics. But under the light of the blue moon, it’s almost starting to feel like Darius doesn’t want to stay away from me. And I’m not sure if it’s my magic going haywire or the starlit skies, but I can’t imagine leaving his arms either. 

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Also reviewed by KD 

This is not my normal read or style, but I enjoyed it. This was the first time read for Ms. Flynn. The "heat" part was definitely in order (or should I say over order), and the banter, comedy, and characters were the best.

The story was very good, and Ms. Flynn made you believe that all werewolves and witches were just normal and every day.

I give the novel 4 Baaarts, but I think if one of her followers read the book, it would be 5 Baaarts.

 

 

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About the Author:
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USA Today and Wall Street Journal bestselling romance author Avery Flynn has sold more than a million books, which have been translated into multiple languages. She has three slightly-wild children, loves a hockey-addicted husband and is desperately hoping someone invents the coffee IV drip. She lives outside of Washington DC with her family and a pack of five dogs all named after food. If she’s not reading romance or binging reality TV, she’s most definitely plotting to take over the world so she can banish Crocs from existence. Also, if you figure out how to send Oreos through the Internet, she’ll be your best friend for life.

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Urban Fantasy: With All My Haunted Heart by Isabel Sterling

With All My Haunted Heart
by Isabel Sterling
Sept 8, 2026
Genre: LGBTQ, paranormal, urban fantasy, witches
A witch hired to ethically haunt a small-town B&B instead finds herself spellbound by her non-magical client in this cozy and enchanting sapphic romance.

Steadily losing clients to the new DIY-magic shop on the other side of town, Pippa Ainsley is getting desperate. Instead of hiring the witch to correct their magical maladies, local mundanes have been taking their chances with the cheaper—and unpredictable—crystals and herb blends. So when Pippa’s best friend hires her to inspect his newly acquired bed-and-breakfast for ghosts, she doesn’t think twice about it.

That is, until she learns that his unfairly attractive co-owner, Elle Thompson, doesn’t want Pippa to rid their business of spirits. She wants Pippa to give them an edge over the competition by haunting their B&B.

It’s the perfect challenge for Pippa’s experimental magic, but just because she could figure it out, doesn’t mean it’s a smart or safe idea. But Elle is persistent, and the financial boost could save her own business if Pippa succeeds. Soon, Pippa finds herself testing the limits of her magic… and her ability to stop the growing attraction she feels toward Elle, a woman with a painful secret of her own.

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Praise for Isabel Sterling
"With All My Haunted Heart deftly weaves humor and steam with deep, true emotions in a gorgeous queer romance full of both literal and metaphorical ghosts and magic."—Stephanie Burgis, USA Today bestselling author of Wooing the Witch Queen

“With All My Haunted Heart contains everything I could want in a paranormal romance–found family, a cozy setting, plenty of humor, and lots of fun magic. Isabel Sterling deftly weaves in themes of letting go and daring to let others in, conjuring a spellbindingly sweet sapphic romance that's full of heart and hope.”—Tori Anne Martin, USA Today bestselling author of This Spells Disaster

“Heartfelt and cathartic, Sterling weaves a story that grounds the fantastical with relatable characters and predicaments. With All My Haunted Heart reminds us that even the strongest magic can't fix family trauma, a flagging business, or an inconvenient crush.”—Kiri Callaghan, USA Today bestselling author of A Hearth Witch’s Guide to Magic and Murder

“In With All My Haunted Heart, Isabel Sterling has created a love story that goes beyond its (incredibly hot and sweet) central romance—an absolutely beautiful exploration on family, grief, healing, friendship, and what it means to reach for something new when your whole world feels shattered. This is a stunning adult debut.”—Shelly Jay Shore, USA Today bestselling author of Rules for Ghosting

“With All My Haunted Heart is an utterly spellbinding sapphic romance that’s as charming as it is surprisingly moving. Full of witchy shenanigans and big swoons, this book swept me up in the magic of its cozily haunted bed and breakfast. Sign me up for a stay!” —Bridget Morrissey, author of That Summer Feeling

“With All My Haunted Heart is profoundly emotional and bewitchingly sexy! I was fully entranced by Sterling’s cozy paranormal sapphic romance—a stunning and hopeful exploration of love, grief, and other ghosts that linger in our hearts.”—Jessica James, author of For Our Next Song

“Sterling’s rich, magical world dazzles readers with its fantastic intricacies. Suspense, romance, and wit go hand in hand, and the thrills run right up to the last page.” —Richelle Mead, #1 international bestselling author of The Glittering Court and Vampire Academy series, on These Witches Don't Burn

"An enchanting mystery, simmering with intrigue. Once you start These Witches Don't Burn, you'll be utterly spellbound." —Sarah Glenn Marsh, author of the Reign of the Fallen series

"These Witches Don’t Burn is an original, thrillingly romantic spin on the classic teen witch tale. Infused with page-turning suspense, bittersweet romance, shocking twists, and tragic turns, Sterling has written a standout debut. Never sentimental, often sweet, but unafraid to break your heart, the writing is as lovely, vibrant, and ruthless as its characters." —Dana Mele, author of People Like Us

"An enchanting debut from Isabel Sterling. I'd be in for the note-perfect f/f romance alone, but These Witches Don't Burn perfectly blends a fun teenage relationship story with a delightfully dark and twisty supernatural thriller. A lovely witchy book full of complicated girls and a world rich with queer characters. It'll leave you wanting a coven of your own." —Britta Lundin, author of Ship It and writer on Riverdale

"Sterling's debut meshes high magical stakes with the raw, real human emotions of broken hearts and new love, creating a book that's utterly bewitching in every way." —Dahlia Adler, author of Under the Lights on These Witches Don't Burn

“A fun, fresh contemporary fantasy with one of the most endearing and authentic casts I've read. Complicated friendships, deeply relatable romantic entanglements, and Salem's long history make this book an unforgettable read.” —Katherine Locke, author of The Girl with the Red Balloon on These Witches Don't Burn

About the Author
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Isabel Sterling writes stories about queer love and resilience with a witty magical twist. She is the author of several YA and adult novels, including: These Witches Don’t Burn, This Coven Won’t Break, The Coldest Touch, and the forthcoming With All My Haunted Heart. Isabel is also a master certified life coach, the founder of The Confident Author Academy, and the host of The Author Burnout Cure podcast. An alum of Purchase College and Syracuse University, Isabel spent a decade working in higher education and LGBTQ non-profits before striking out on their own to write and coach full-time. Isabel lives with their spouse and fur-babies in Central New York, where the winters are frigid, the summers are too hot, and autumn is perfect.

5 Sheep➕ Book Review: Unpredictable Magic by Faith Hunter

Unpredictable Magic
by Faith Hunter
July 14, 2026
Witches Angelina and Evan Everhart-Trueblood take a case that spirals out of control until the whole city is at risk in this exciting new novel from New York Times bestselling author Faith Hunter.

Angelina Everhart-Trueblood and her brother Evan run Everhart Investigations, a PI firm in Chattanooga that solves paranormal crimes committed by supernatural beings. When their new client wants help finding her friend, who supposedly disappeared during a reception at Angie’s aunt Jane’s winter residence, things get . . . complicated.

The client is not who she appears to be, and demons strike the city for the first time since the Witch War. On top of that, evidence is pointing toward the involvement of an overly ambitious vampire—who just happens to be Angie’s ex-husband.

As Angie and Evan team up with CPD, they will have to dig deep into their magical reserves—and rely on some friends in high places—to rid Chattanooga of the danger creeping into their city.

I have not read any of Ms. Hunter's other novels- but that may change. Vampire and Witch novels are not my first choice of reading, but when authors like Ms. Hunter writes with such "flowing" ideas and entertaining words, old ladies will make changes in their choices.

"Unpredictable Magic" was a very enjoyable read- with words that were not familiar to me, but she made them understandable in every paragraph. There were lots of vamp fights and spells, some with humor, but also some with lots of blood and brimstone. If her other novels are as graphic and explosive as this one, you will want to read her next new novel for sure.

I wanted to continue reading, even though I had other things to do and had to put the book down. She made the characters come alive in their interactions with each other, and the story line flowed in all 534 pages. 

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I would positively give this novel 5 Barts ➕

 

 

About the Author:
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Faith Hunter, urban fantasy writer, was born in Louisiana and raised all over the south. Hunter fell in love with reading in fifth grade, and best loved SciFi, fantasy, and gothic mystery. She decided to become a writer in high school, when a teacher told her she had talent.

Now, she writes full-time, tries to keep house, and is a workaholic with a passion for RV travel, Japanese maples, orchids, white-water kayaking, and writing. She and her husband love to RV to whitewater rivers all over the Southeast.

The dark urban fantasy Skinwalker series, featuring Jane Yellowrock, is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling series with multiple books and compilations. Jane Yellowrock is a Cherokee skinwalker who tracks, hunts, and kills rogue-vampires for a living — that is, until she takes a gig working for Leo Pellissier, the Master of the City of New Orleans. The series is set in an alternate reality, modern-day world, one inhabited by humans, vamps, and other things that go bump in the night.

Her Rogue Mage novels, a dark, urban fantasy series, feature Thorn St. Croix, a stone mage in a post-apocalyptic, alternate reality, urban fantasy world. These novels are the basis for the Rogue Mage World Book and Role Playing Game, which contains lots of fiction for the readers!

The Soulwood series features Nell Nicholson Ingram, and is a spinoff from the Skinwalker series. Nell is an escapee from a cult, a solitary woman with deadly magic of her own. In book one, Blood of The Earth, she is hired to help PsyLED (a division of Homeland Security) find a missing child.

Faith’s Junkyard Cats series is a “near future” SciFi series of novellas first released as Audible Originals and later as ebooks, and possibly some day as a print onmibus.

Under her pen name Gwen Hunter, she writes action adventure, mysteries, and thrillers.

As Faith and Gwen, she has 40+ books in print in 30+ countries.

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A Game of Cat and Witch (Monstrous Shifters) by Ruby Rune + giveaway

We're celebrating the release of A Game of Cat and Witch by Ruby Rune! This beauty is already an Amazon Bestseller and we're gifting one lucky ready a paperback copy on Instagram!

 

A Game of Cat and Witch (Monstrous Shifters) 

by Ruby Rune 

Genre: A Spicy Witch & Shifter Paranormal Academy Romance Cover Artist: Kage, illustration by Alilyushka

• Forced Proximity
• Just one dorm/bed
• Enemies to lovers
• Touch her and die
• Academy setting
• Witch + Cat Shifter
• Fated Mates
• Literal Black Cat MMC

Underlying Mystery Plot Avery Alarch has always been the worst witch at Caerwyn University. Now she’s got twenty-four hours to conjure a familiar or get kicked out for good—a fate that means losing her magic forever and being stuck on a dreary island with nothing but regrets.

 

Desperate times call for desperate spells. So when Avery stumbles on a forbidden grimoire, she decides to risk it all. One little summoning later, she’s expecting a cute magical cat. Instead? She gets Felix, a six-foot-six cat shifter with a bad attitude and a knack for trouble. He’s her mortal enemy, magically bound to her by an illegal spell, and very much not purring. 

 

He wants her dead. She wants him gone. Neither of them gets a choice. 

 

The only way out? Solve a string of enchanted riddles before their magical link destroys them both. Of course, that’s easier said than done when Felix keeps tying Avery up in shadows, and their bickering is starting to feel a little less hostile and a lot more heated. 

 

As they unravel puzzles and secrets, Avery and Felix find themselves at the heart of a conspiracy that could upend the supernatural world. And despite every rule and reason, sparks are flying in all the wrong (or right?) ways. 

 

Get ready for claws, curses, and cat-astrophic chemistry in A Game of Cat and Witch, the first laugh-out-loud installment in the Monstrous Shifters series. Perfect for fans of My Funny Demon Valentine and Assistant to the Villain, Ruby Rune’s debut is a magical, banter-filled paranormal rom-com you won’t want to miss.

 AVAILABLE ON AMAZON 

  

 

Triggers:
Dub con/non con : Graphic sexual scenes : Sexual assault (on page) : Physical violence : Anxiety/Panic attacks : Dismembered bodies : Trauma : Death of a loved one (not on page) : Death of a parent (not on page) : Graphic violence : Slut shaming : Excessive drinking : Murder and attempted murder 

 

About the Author

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Ruby Rune is a romance author based in Northern NSW, Australia. At the moment, she writes unhinged paranormal romcoms for the whimsical and devious (I know that’s you, you little minx) starting with her debut A Game of Cat and Witch.

When she isn’t writing, she’s tending to her garden, gaming like a gremlin, devouring smutty cliterature, or doomscrolling on Instagram. 

 

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