Stephanie's Reviews > Witches Get Stitches

This story took me a little while to get into. I read it immediately after the first two in the series, so the Violet + Nico foreshadowing was fresh in my mind. I liked the flashbacks we saw at the beginning of the book explaining their first meeting and leading up to "present day". I didn't love him trying to make her jealous… but that's just because I don't love "other woman" drama, mild as it might be.
See, Nico wants Violet. But Violet doesn't want a hook up with someone who's a family friend (his cousin is with her sister). So, she's been pushing him away for well over a year. And when she gets jealous over little things, he doesn't reassure her because, well, he wants her to sweat.

A big theme in this book is prejudice - specifically, in the supernatural community. Nico is a werewolf, and the origins of werewolves in this world is that a witch being hunted curses the hunter as she dies that all his male descendants would be cursed with the werewolf. It can cause violent outbursts and fear of lost control.

I don't fully know how I feel about the entire plot surrounding this prejudice, or the conclusion. On the surface, it's the cutesy subplot of a romance: witch helps promote werewolf equality. Maybe I'm having bad flashbacks of JK Rowling comparing lycanthropy to AIDS (ugh) - Juliette Cross did no such thing so I'm not comparing the two… it's just like, hard to make a sweeping statement like "I fell in love with a werewolf and realized werewolf prejudice is wrong so I'm going to fix it". Do you know what I mean? Maybe I'm talking out of my ass here.

I'm a little too tired right now to do the mental gymnastics of trying to analyze this book, so here's the thing: I enjoyed the story, the writing, the characters. I'm so excited for Clara's book I don't know how I'm supposed to wait for May 2023 (most of my highlights in this book were interactions between Clara and her Grim). Violet and Nico wound up growing on me. And I love werewolves.