This was a nice easy to read romance! If you just want something fun not too serious and a quick read I’m sure you will enjoy! I was able to get the arc from Netgally which is why I came around this book.

I wasn’t really surprised with anything in the book, and it just felt like the same story I’ve read in other books. I did enjoy the dual POV and of course the funny comments from Trixie from time to time. I would’ve loved to explore the magical world some more.

If you love romcoms and romcoms around paranormal life right around the start of spooky season - this is the book for you. I thought this was such a fun, cute read. I enjoyed the disklike (hate) to love on Trixie's side (definitely wasn't there on Dom's side) and the playfulness between them. I feel like there were maybe too many side plots going on (political and murderous brother could have been narrowed down to one or the other) but it was definitely the right book to kick off the start of spooky season and I was here for it.

With a witch named Trixie Gardens, I knew this was going to be such a cute, witchy romance. I loved the dynamic between the characters. They had the perfect setup for an instant enemies to lovers vibe, great banter, and funny magical pranks. Their hate quickly turns toward insta-love, but after waiting 300 years, Dom knew they were fated mates. Overall, this was a light hearted, quick, and cozy read. I would recommend it.

Read if you enjoy:
✔️Enemies to lovers
✔️Witch x vampire
✔️Billionaire
✔️Forced proximity
✔️Dual POV

Favorite quote: “Don’t let your past stop you from being happy in the future.”

Thank you @ginnalamanna and @NetGalley for my ARC!

An entertaining, light, and fast paced paranormal rom-com. Likeable characters, humour, and a well plotted story
Recommended.
Many thanks to the publisher for this ARC, all opinions are mine

3.75⭐
This was my first dive into paranormal romance, and I enjoyed it overall, though I struggled to feel the chemistry between the main characters. The world-building was sweet and intriguing, but it felt like some important details were missing. The author spent a lot of time on unnecessary aspects, focusing heavily on Trixi's fear of using her magic. While I understand it's a key part of the story, the main plot twist involving both Trixi's magic and Dom's brother felt a bit overshadowed.

That said, the book had a cute vibe, and I really loved the experience as a whole! ✨

This was the perfect book to read if you are a love of autumn/halloween season.

In one book you’ve got witches, vampires, billionaires and lots of comedy.

Trixie and Dominic are forced to work together and it's got enemies to lovers, insta-love and hate turned into something more.

I love the Halloween book season, almost more than I love the Christmas book season, because I’m obsessed with paranormal romances. They are so cute, and I just eat them up every time. I love the mix of normal romance storylines and magical characters, it’s the perfect combination that guarantees I’ll enjoy the book from start to finish.

Trixie is an adorable character, who is a witch, but yet is so relatable to me, an average 27 year old. Her career, life plans, grief can be relatable to anyone, even if we can’t relate to her being a strong witch who has insane amounts of power. Her and Dom have an interesting relationship from start to finish, it never went the way I expected, but I loved it nonetheless. The result of the hexes were hilarious, but I also loved how they came to the realization that they loved each other!

This enemies to lovers is a funny story with a sparkle of magic. Their insta-love /hate turn into something more when forced to work together with a now common enemy.
It was a perfect light fantasy to binge in one sitting.

This was a fun, quick, paranormal romance read. It was a lot of fun going along the story with Trixie and Dominic in an enemies-to-lovers adjacent storyline. The relationship between the two is very playful and fun! It wakes all of our favorite elements (witches, vampires, billionaires, and comedy) and brings them into one book, perfect to cozy up with just in time for fall!

3.5 -⭐⭐⭐💫

She was the fire to my ice, the warm heat to my cold, empty chamber.

Hate Hex is a standalone adult urban fantasy romance following Trixie, a down on her luck witch, and Dominic, a billionaire vampire with family baggage.

Trixie is a witch who hates magic and represses her own skills to live like a human. She spends her days getting by working as a taxi driver living in the only place she has ever called him...until she finds out the billionaire who owns her apartment building is planning to sell the building and thus evict her.

When a series of strange happenstances lead Dominic's attention to be drawn to Trixie (accidental magic use on a cork bottle, dark alleyway, and an invitation to an elite magical event) a connection forms between these two unlikely folks. Trixie claims it to be hatred but as they are drawn into a fight against estranged family and an election neither one wants it becomes clear something else may be brewing...if they give it a chance.

I had fun with this book!

Trixie is a spunky character who knows how to voice herself and stand up. Her tumultuous upbringing has led to a lot of insecurity around magic and I like how it was represented in this book. I will say at times she can get stuck in a rut but I admired the strength of the different side characters who found ways to get to her without her getting immediately on the defensive.

Dominic comes across as a pretty traditional billionaire vampire. He has baggage because he wants to be distanced from his brother and he fears what his brother will do to the people he cares about. I liked the connection he felt to Trixie and the ways he tried to keep himself in her life before he even understood what these emotions meant. Now, he did try to martyr things a couple times but thankfully Trixie does not let him walk all over her.

I also gave a shout out to side characters but Trixie's best friend and grandmother really helped make Trixie a character I was able to enjoy. They drew out her fears and helped her process things while also challenging her about her perceptions, which is key because her instant dislike of Dominic was a teensy bit over dramatic.

This book does have some reference to spice that I would place at a 0.5 spicy pepper out of 5 spicy peppers. While there is an almost instant connection between the characters, the overall romance is a slow burn. The spice itself has some foreplay before it fades to black. There is passionate kissing, biting, and declarations of love but I was surprised how limited the spice was given the connection these two felt. Their romance does take a back slide at one point as they both are dealing with their baggage but it did feel good overall.

"The smell of you, the feel of your lips on mine...I haven't been able to get you out of my head. I'm ravenous for you, Trixie. You have ruined me."

The story had good pace and some interesting twists to keep you along for the ride. I loved the antagonistic play between Trixie and Dominic and the additional plot elements about the election to help keep things going. Dominic's story around his brother felt sort of weaker than Trixie's struggle to accept magic and I wish there was a smoother transition to how it connects to the overarching story. We got banter, some sweet moments in the world, and intimacy that helped draw things together. I did feel the ending was rushed a bit.

Overall, a sweet romance if you love cool urban fantasy worlds where magical creatures live modern lives.

Thank you so much LaManna Books for this arc!

Hate hex is a fun, quick, paranormal, witchy read. The book is just perfect for the upcoming spooky season. I could not put it down. I loved the enemies to lovers romance between Trixie and Dom.
Thank you to Netgalley and the publisher for an advanced reader copy in exchange for an honest review!
Release date is September 3rd!

Trixie Gardens, is a down-on-her-luck taxi driver in the paranormal section of New York. She is also a witch who has refused to use her powers since she was sixteen, and they have been building up inside of her ever since. Then one night, as she is walking back to her apartment, she runs into a grumpy, devilishly handsome vampire in the alley behind her apartment building and her magic accidentally shoots the cork from a cheap cabernet bottle at his face. Oops! The vampire turns out to be none other than Dominic Kent, the billionaire who owns Trixie’s apartment building and lives in the penthouse above her apartment. When she discovers Dominic is planning to sell the apartment building and evict everyone, she retaliates by getting her roommate/best friend to brew up a hate hex to show him just how miserable it can be to live in a crappy apartment, which is all she will be able to afford if she gets kicked out of her rent-controlled one. He retaliates by hexing her back, and it is game on. When Dominic's brother returns, hellbent on revenge, Dom & Trixie have to join forces to stay alive.

I am a huge fan of this author, and her Magic & Mixology series is my favorite of all of them. This book is in the same universe as those books, even if there weren't any cross-over characters. I loved Trixie & Dominic and Trixie's roommate Emmy, and hope this will be either a spin-off series, or they will be incorporated into future books in that series. This was a fun read that is perfect for anyone who loves fantasy fiction.. I highly recommend it.

Get yourself in the Spooky Season mood!  This is a cute, smexy, cosy paranormal romance.

Trixie is a powerful but reluctant witch.  Decades of suppressing her magic leads to her giving off random blasts of magic when she does cave and use it occasionally.  She has her reasons for hating to use magic and I can understand why she thought she had to basically live like a human.

Dom is perfect as the centuries older, vampiric rich guy.  He's forgotten what it's like to worry about rent, food and a working vehicle.  When he is determined to sell their apartment block, he sets Trixie off on a hex war!

The banter between these two is well crafted and the complete irreverence that Vix has for her employer is awesome!  Emmy is possibly my favourite secondary character.  She is such a great friend to Trixie and always on her side - even when she knows that Trixie is going off on a tangent.

The political mayhem subplot and Dom's squicky brother added some depth.  I really enjoyed this shorter story and I'd be happy to visit this world again.

What a perfect book to kick off fall & spooky season! This was a fun, quick read. I loved the chemistry between Trixie and Dominic. I enjoyed the universe that the author Gina LaManna created. I will definitely be checking out more books by this author!

2.5 stars. Hate Hex follows a witch named Trixie who is trying to suppress her magic. It's getting harder to do this as she nears her thirtieth birthday. Her landlord Dominic is a powerful vampire who she dislikes since he is selling the apartment building and she has to move. Once they start truly interacting with each other after they are both nominated for an elected position, they begin to realize they like each other. Unfortunately, Dominic's murderous brother and otherworldly politics can't stop getting in Trixie and Dominic's way.

Hate Hex had some entertaining parts to it but I did not feel that it was original. I didn't find myself getting invested in the characters or their relationship. I feel the love part was really rushed. Overall, it was still a fun, quick read.

Thank you to LaManna Books for providing this book for review consideration via NetGalley. All opinions are my own.

3.5 ⭐️

Hate Hex is a quick, totally predictable just like Hallmark Christmas movies (but we still love them), enemies to lovers rom-com! FMC is a magically repressed witch and MMC is a vampire. The relationship would be considered instalove (on his side) but there is a reason for that explained which I appreciated. The pacing was a little off to me as it was building and building and then everything happened in the last 20 (ebook) pages. Still 100% enjoyable.

Thanks to NetGalley for the ARC!

2.75🌟

Hate Hex is a cutesy, fluff filled paranormal romance. For lovers of enemies to lovers and fast paced romance then this is for you. However, I’m not a massive fan of insta love and even though it was explained away it still just didn’t do it for me.

I wish there had been more of a slow burn so we got more moments with the characters. The problem with the instant love is that you don’t get those moments of tension and longing, you don’t get to feel a deeper connection with the relationship as it happens in the blink of an eye. One moment they have just met and the next they are getting together. It just doesn’t hit the spot for me unfortunately.

However, that being said I did enjoy the small moments of banter between the love interests and the friendship between Trixie and Emmy. I just wish the book had been a little bit longer so that the relationship could happen a bit more naturally.

Thank you to @Netgalley for the ARC and thank you to @GinaLaManna for allowing me the opportunity to read this!

2.5 stars

Trixie is a rideshare driver & also a witch. However, she has repressed her powers due to childhood trauma. She meets rich & powerful vampire Dom one night outside her building, which Dom owns. They instantly love/hate each other. Both are nominated for an open spot ona magical council and the sparks fly.

This was a very tame book. Pretty formulaic, but an easy read and the author is a good writer. Would just have liked more action/development.

Thank you so much to Gina LaManna and NetGalley for a chance to read this Book.

“Dominic Kent was the epitome of tall, dark, and brooding—with centuries of grumpiness stored in his cold, dark heart.”

For someone that doesn’t usually read paranormal, Hate Hex was actually quite the surprise, I really enjoyed it! I was pretty much hooked from the first page. I thought the characters were good and it flowed pretty well.

If you want a cute, funny paranormal read, then this is perfect for this spooky season and I would definitely recommend it!