I'm not sure what to make of this book. 70% of it was, frankly, boring. I kept slogging through because I knew there must be some sort of payoff - it can't all be focused on the tedious details of domestic life, right? although I guess that's supposed to be the charm - but when it did come, I didn't find it particularly satisfying either. 
 Imagine a book about the more or less mundane lives of three women. Ok, sure, they're supposed to be witches, but the book flap blurb made it sound like they were actually dangerous and powerful. Instead, we got an aging mom who uses her life and death powers to animate toys for a toddler. We get an Aphrodite-like "reckless" and cheating daughter - although the author tries to justify the cheating-on-fiance-with-fiance's-brother with some token lines about how it's not in her nature to be monogamous and really, in the end, the big reveal (view spoiler)[ I guess is supposed to justify the cheating because the cheaters are destined for each other and past lovers (hide spoiler)]. Last of all, we get a small town library who is supposed to be much more but never really is, and her part in all this is to have a crush on some guy who then dates someone else because he was too shy to actually ask the right girl out. 
 Ugh, now that I've written that, I'm wondering to myself why I gave this a 3 star rating too. 
 Anyway, so the last 20% or so of the book then goes off the deep end with the big reveals and mythology that is supposed to give meaning to all of the mundane stuff of the first 80% of the book. Unfortunately, by that time, it was too little and too late for me. Also, I'm pretty well versed in mythology and could already guess where all this was going from just the names mentioned early on, but I still found the infodump of mythology to be tedious. 
 This entire book felt like a prime example of telling, not showing. I didn't really care for any of the characters. The narrative style was supposed to be poetic and lyrical, I think, but ended up being distant - the ONLY reason I stuck with this book, if I'm honest, is because I knew it would only take me a few hours to read since it's a very slim 272 pages of adult hardback. The reader was repeatedly told that these women had dangerous and important powers - but really? What the reader actually got was: fixing a burnt pie, making "love potion" cocktails at a bar, and handing out New Age style hair knots while drawing pentagrams and lighting candles. 
 Even without the cheating aspect, the love story in this book was incredibly hard to care about, given that the characters literally met and decided to sleep with each other within the hour - the fact that all this happened at an engagement party and that the cheater is the brother of the newly engaged man is, I'm not sure, an attempt to make this into juicy drama or something. There was zero characterization of either man, anyway, other than one made her feel loved and safe/protected, and the other basically knocked her over with lust AND love. 
 So after writing all this out, I've come to two realizations: I should have rated this two stars, as I didn't actually like the book, but I started this review at three stars because I didn't really dislike anything enough to mark it down more. The second realization is that even though I checked out all the books together from the library (and now I know why none of them were checked out...) I'll be returning the other two without reading them, unless I get a desperate case of must-complete-what-I-started ambition. Then again, this book reminded me of why, as much as I loved the first few books of the Blue Bloods YA series from the same author, I never did end up going back to finish them. Somewhere along the way, they just didn't keep my interest anymore. (Side note: a Blue Bloods character also makes a brief appearance in this book, but apparently for no important reason.) 
 Maybe the subsequent books will be more interesting now that the true mythological identities of each "witch" has been revealed. Maybe. But with so many other great books out there, the most I'll do is speed read through the next two just to find out what happens. After all, something about THIS book inspired me to actually write a review...maybe it was my disappointment at being drawn in by a description that so utterly failed to match what I actually read. 
 Edit: I just can't do it. Revised to two stars. I realized that I'm writing a review only to justify to myself why I forced myself to read this book through even though basically nothing about it actually appealed to me.