Witch Blood

The Witchblood Legacy, Book 1

By: Beth Evans

Narrated by: John Hartley, Caren Naess

We are the daughters of the ones they did not burn...

When vampire heiress Poppy Villalobos entered my store looking for help, my life became intertwined with the Villalobos mafia in a way I could have never expected.

With a killer on the loose and a mysterious man haunting my every move, the Villalobos men insert themselves into my life as my protectors. Now, a demon, angel, werewolf, fae prince, and vampire mafia boss are glued to my side, and it sounds more like a terrible joke than the reality of my life.

These sexy-as-sin men may be the face of a mafia family, but the way they look at me leaves me wondering if they truly can be redeemed.

Family dinners aren't the only awkward situations I now have to navigate. When my life becomes threatened, a secret kept within the women of my family for generations comes to light, and I am pulled back into a plot that has spanned lifetimes.

With enemies around every corner, I have to trust these men with my body and my heart.

Witch Blood is a why-choose romance with an HEA and an FMC who doesn't have to settle for one love interest. It is the first book in a series of standalone stories in The Witchblood Legacy.

©2024 Beth Evans (P)2025 Podium Audio

Hot and good story too

I loved it! I already went to IG and followed Podium for the next read. I can't wait...

balaced

perfect balance of plot line and steam. Also character development was a priority. Nice change from other fantasy-erotica books. I will definitely be continuing this series.

Pretty good read

Very spicy with good world building and story. Love the dynamics between the characters. The narrators did a great job!

Narration

Love this series!! The narrators make it all worth the listen!! The variation and depth of each character is just incredible

Poor AF/VERY Repetitive Vocab - I was dying. 😂 you

Ok guys. I stuck this out but I struuuuugggled. This had so much potential and I was sorely disappointed. Do yourself a favor and read the book versus listen or ask for your money back? Not picky haha.


I am SO turned off by consistently repetitive vocabulary and poor grammar. That said? I’m not an author and it’s a SUPER difficult thing to do so that’s why I’m forgiving in general, but this took the cake.

The only thing that held my resolve to finish this book were the efforts of the voice actors. Even if some of the pauses were a bit odd (both VAs) and I laughed every time the female FMC POV (Caren Naess) pronounced “pussy” “poo-see” with a bad Russian accent lmfaooo 💀💀💀

The things that stood out - in a bad way?

The words: “Pussy, snarled, crooned” lmao.

It pays to use a thesaurus. Or a beta reader! A control/command F? Google AI, ChatGPT, Grammarly can help if you can’t hire one! And they are a VERY good investment.

Also, some of the sentence structure just killed me 💀

“She calls to the “primal” side of me. I can feel the primal mating bond just waiting to snap into place.” Later in within the same conversation the other character says: “The longer I am around her, the harder it is to control my primal instincts.” This can be super easily fixed. Even if it’s just using synonyms!

Let me help you out.

For the above? Just say mating bond. Or create a new term! Like you did with the angel! So much potential lost. Leave out primal in the first or second sentence in the conversation. If you want to portray primal, you can say things like: “ancient instincts, deep, raw, basic person/being/human behavior, unfiltered, uninhibited, animal instinct, natural impulse etc”

Pussy, cunt, center, moist heat, hole, entrance, vagina, I’ve even read “the most sensitive part of me/her/him/them” or “the most secretive/private part of me/her/him/them” hell you could even use box, punani, muff, snatch - the point? Pussy is not creative if it’s all you use within a book to describe hot af smut. It is distracting, especially to the neurodivergent (ffs we can do better!).

Snarled (this damn word and all of its forms was why I DNF’d Gigi Styx’s Pen Pal Duet - so awwwwwkward to keep hearing the same damn word!). Instead? Use:

Growled, hissed, rumbled, gritted out, snarked, snapped, grumbled, mocked, snidely, spiteful, testy, roared, said/other word besides a consistent “snarled,” ”let out a derisive snort”” he mocked/said/snarked sharply/in warning/aggressively, hell even rasped! OR “he gritted out through clenched teeth his countenance vicious and violent” etc.

I know I’m being harsh, but come on. You can do SO MUCH BETTER.

Crooned, whispered, said silkily, hummed, cajoled, tempted, whined, sang, quavered, warbled, murmured OR “he said/replied/“hummed (etc etc)” quietly, his voice soft, velvety and promising” etc.

Hopefully, 🤞🏻 this will improve future books but I am not holding my breath for the next few books within this world and will not be continuing the series.