What I can I say? I really hated it. And very rarely do I admit to hating a book. It baffles me why it rates so high. This is just my opinion of course and everyone has the right to disagree with me and I am OK with that. 
 Why I didn't enjoy it? Well for me it was the weird positioning between the romance and fantasy genre. Granted I have not read the others in the series. But it felt like it was just thick with cringe worthy romance and the magic was just a bit of an afterthought to catch lovers of the fantasy genre. Romance in books should talk straight to my ovaries, but this one just made me cringe instead of draw me in. I just found the Mia and Sam thing that pretty much took up the whole book; very annoying. 10 years is a really long time for someone to be away and then come back with the attitude Sam very clearly had. The contempt that he had for Lulu and Ripley for simply trying to protect their friend Instantly made me angry. He even referred to one of them as her guard dog. And through the course of the book Mia starts strong against him and slowly melts down (as we all knew she would). 
 The references to all things magical just seemed like a filler in the end. 
 It just was not for me. Sorry guys!