Imagine a bumbling character like Janet Evanovich’s Stephanie Plum told with the quirky tone of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, but trying to get a job at Hogwarts.Clarissa Lawrence has been fired from multiple internships as a student teacher for reasons outside her control. Magical things keep happening to her . . . like the students turning into frogs. Her love life isn’t any more normal, … considering how her boyfriends keep mysteriously suffering from heart attacks.
Clarissa doesn’t know how to explain it all. Like most twenty-one-year-olds who grew up reading the Harry Potter Series, Clarissa has always dreamed of escaping her mundane life by being invited to a magical school where good triumphs over evil, the administration is fair and kind, and schools don’t suffer from budget cuts.
When Clarissa learns she is descended from a powerful sorceress, she would do anything to find the magical world where she knows she belongs. Only, the witches don’t want her because her mother pulled a Wicked Witch of the West move on everyone. To make matters worse, a gang of evil Fae wants to kidnap and enslave her. Clarissa must escape little old ladies in gingerbread cottages, the evil school district psychologist who has always been out to get her, and a hoard of harpies before she can prove to the Witchkin that the bad apple falls farther from the tree that they’d guessed.
If she can do this, then maybe, just maybe her dreams will come true and she’ll land that job teaching the dark arts and crafts.
This is the second book in the WOMBY’S SCHOOL FOR WAYWARD WITCHES Series, but the first three books can be read in any order.
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I was laughing so hard within the first couple of pages. Then the book gets into more of the story and slips into another funny part. It is this way through out the whole book. I like the little hint about Derrik!
Clarissa Lawrence knew from a young age that she was different. When she was young she wanted nothing more than to find out she was a witch, and to receive an invitation to an exclusive school for young witches. She still wants to be a witch, and she is beginning to suspect she has power. She finds out just how different she is when things start getting weird while she is a student teacher working toward her teaching degree.
Fascinating. funny characters, and a plot with surprising, and unexpected twists. Wonderful read that kept me laughing.
I am voluntarily leaving an honest and non-incentivized review of this ARC.
This second book in the Womby’s School for Wayward Witches series by Sarina Dorie continued Clarissa’s discovery about real magic and her attempts to control it while trying very hard not to kill anyone else or destroy too many things. This book is where we finally, but just barely, get to the Womby School part of the journey. Along the way, there are several humorous and not so funny trials for Clarissa to hurdle during her “routine” life, which of course, is anything but. This book expands and reveals many secrets, none of which I will be talking about here. Already have book 3 loaded in my TBR and ready to read. This is a voluntary review of this book.
Wow, this series is becoming quite interesting. It has a clear adult edge to it. The last book had started in a Harry Potter flair, but it soon changed in this book, where it took a more adult and dark edge to it. It was a real page turner and I can’t wait to see what will come up next in this story.
Awesome Must Read Sequel!
Clarissa is all grown up in this wonderfully well written sequel. Image Harry Potter not knowing what he was, only to go up with the Dursleys and living a muggle adult life. That is what student art teacher, Clarissa does. Unfortunately, the magical mishaps continue in hilarious full force! I would have loved to have been a student in one of Clarissa’s classes, bananas and all. Another cliffhanger leads you to the next book in the series. This book has some mature themes and a scene, but is still good for all readers.
That was a fun and bumbling adventure! I absolutely loved it! I can’t wait to read the next one!
Interesting premise, a little confusing in parts, fun characters. Although it is the second in the series, it was the first I have read. I do feel like I should read these in order. This was so good, I ended up continuing the series.
Thank you to Netgalley and Sarina Dorie for allowing me the chance to read this book and offer my honest opinion. I definitely recommend this.
Book 2 and I’m still as confused about Clarissa’s magic as she is.
In book one, Clarissa is a teenager fascinated by magic and learns that she does in fact have some kind of powers. This book is now seven years later and she’s trying to get a job teaching art. She’s learning more about having powers but really had no idea what that power is or how to use it. Nothing is clear.
This series name is ‘Womby’s School…etc.’ but, as in book one, the school doesn’t come into play at all. Finally at the end of the book we hear about it. Maybe in book three they will actually be at the school. Maybe.
I liked the book but the back and forth of what her magic is and who knows what became tiresome. I don’t think I’ll be reading on.
I loved this book. It was fun to read. I like how the main character Clarissa has continued to develop from the first book in the series. She shows great strength as she discovers more about who she is. The story is well written and funny. I like how the book ends. I can’t wait to read the next book in the series.
The whole book had me on edge. Will she come a real witch? Will she accidentally kill her boyfriends? Will she ever find her one true love Derrick? I cant wait to read the other books in the series and find out where Derrick went and what kind of magic Clarissa really has.