A Rival Most Vial
Potioneering for Love and Profit

I am slow to anger / But I toe the line / As I reckon with the effects of your life on mine (Your Obedient Servant – Hamilton). Forgive the Hamilton lyric, I'm sure I could find something else, but... I just really like Leslie Odom, Jr., he’s great. Anyway… oh, this was wonderful! To me, there’s som......more

2.5 stars, maybe? I don’t know that there’s anything egregiously wrong with this book, but it’s really boring. So much so that a 3 feels just a bit too high. Silly and cozy for the first half and then it just…doesn’t do anything. The plot and the characters are both just meh. I never start a new book......more

My SPFBO9 finalist review of A Rival Most Vial is published at Before We Go Blog. “Eli’s Elixirs, or whatever it was, wouldn’t last more than a month on Rosemund Street.” A Rival Most Vial is R.K. Ashwick’s cozy romantic fantasy featuring two potion shop owners who begin as rivals but inevitably fall......more

What a GEM this is!! I was just looking for something cute, but I got so much more than expected. A Rival Most Vial is everything I could want in a book: distinct characters, a unique setting, found family, a romance built on more than just attraction, and writing that makes everything feel magical a......more

I received an advanced copy of this book in exchange for my honest review. I sat on it for a while, and I'm honestly still stumped as to what to rate this book because there's nothing that wrong with it, but there's also very little I truly liked. So I'm gonna go with 2.5 stars. I'll start with the go......more