The audiobook narrators were incredible for this book.

Sierra Simone's writing about how love feels inside each individual person always hits me hard in the chest. I have not read anything from Julie Murphy before, but this book was incredible, and I might need to check out more of her work. I was in love with these characters and found the MMC's inner monologue heart-breakingly beautiful. Just a little kinky and very loving, I would definitely recommend this novel.

The audiobook narrator is very talented!

The book is delightful. I love enemies/rivals to lovers and this story did it well. The characters bounce off each other and each have their own well developed motivations. The fantasy setting was well designed and felt natural to the story. The characters had me feeling for them and I was glad to see them grow separately and together. Can't wait for the sequel! Would recommend.

Hexcellent Start was a wonderful end to a short and sweet witchy series. Each book is even better than the previous and you can see the author's talent growing with each one. This beautiful sapphic love story evokes the unease of anxiety and the comfort of finding that you are worthy of love regardless of, and sometimes because of, those things that make you feel so different. My only complaint is that the book isn't longer. I wish I could have been enveloped in this world for days, not a few hours.

Audiobook narrator, Michael Ferraiuolo, was awesome! One of the characters kinda sounded like Bob from Bob's Burgers but less monotone.

I loved the world created by the author. The characters were an interesting mix of fantasy races and the set-up for the series was fun. Lots of varied spicy scenes included, as well. Also, from the first page, the first person POV inside the main character's head was HILARIOUS. Having said that, after the initial inciting incident, there isn't much in the way of conflict or plot aside from the main character being kind of insecure. It made me feel less invested about 3/4th of the way through, and it is a 12 hour audiobook, so that required a little pushing through. I enjoyed the book overall, but I wouldn't recommend this to anyone that would need drama/conflict etc in the relationship to keep them interested in the story, because there frankly isn't much in the book.