Hopelessly Teavoted
Azrael Ashmedai Hart must be cursed. He’s a witch twice named for the devil. He’s making his way back to his family manor in Hallowcross after a failed screenwriting career.
He’s adopted a cat he’s allergic to, and if all of that is not enough, he’s also forced to come face-to-face with his childhood best friend and former crush. Victoria Starnberger, the bubbly girl-next-door Az lost touch with after an awkward incident in college, has just been disowned by her parents for quitting business school and buying Azrael’s late parents’ Hopelessly Teavoted tea shop against their wishes. Being cut off financially is one thing.
But, now Vickie also owes a lesser devil for the souls her parents promised him in exchange for her gift to summon the dead by touching something they treasured in life, destroying the object in the process.
- Pages
- 368
- First published
- September 16, 2025
- Language
- English
- Edition
- Ebook
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Shelved by 3 Litcadians
Reviews
Finished June 22, 2026
This was cute and I enjoyed it but there were a couple of things that stopped me from fully loving it. I really liked the magic and feel of this book and right from the start I loved both of the main characters. But the pacing was off for me -!: I feel like the characters went back and forth so many times saying the same thing when they already knew they both wanted to be together. Two characters who have never had the right timing and now they are cursed to not be able to touch! It would have been so amazing and some scenes did deliver on that but it could have been so much more. All said and done tho I really did enjoy this read and I loved all the added queer characters in this story and how it all felt natural and wasn’t part of the plot just a factor about the characters. I already started the next book in the series and I hope I enjoy the pacing of that relationship more.
Finished May 29, 2025
Thank you to Atria Publishing for this ARC!! This book was fun. Witches and devil's and magic I believe would be a realistic version if we did, y'know, have magic like that. Azrael is painfully perfect (this is a good thing, I promise). We love a man who's emotionally aware of himself and the people around him. I see a lot of myself in Victoria; strained relationship with her parents and all. The thing I loved the most about this, was the representation. Characters are queer without it being made their entire personality and multiple religions and belief systems are shown. This brand of witchery blended with Judaism was incredibly interesting to read and honestly one of the only interactions with religion as a whole in media that hasn't left me feeling a bit itchy. The only qualm I think I have, is the pacing. At times it's hard to fully discern how much time has passed between plot events and it feels a little jumpy in places.