Resting Witch Face

Stay a Spell, Book 5

By: Juliette Cross

Narrated by: Johanna Fairview, Aiden Snow

Twelve years ago, Jules Savoie ended her relationship with the vampire overlord of New Orleans, Ruben Dubois, and for good reasons.

A woman in power must often make sacrifices to protect others. She knows the truth of it down to her aching heart.

When Ruben watches his best friend Devraj get married, a stinging realization hits him hard: he’s done waiting.

They say time heals all wounds. In this case, it merely sharpened the pain and made one fact crystal clear. Jules Savoie is his soulmate, and nothing would keep her from him. Not anymore.

Forced to work side by side to fight for the werewolf cause, they campaign together at covens from New Orleans to London. The reignited spark burns hotter than ever before. But when a power-hungry vampire sets his predatory sights on Jules, will their love be strong enough against black magic? Or will he lose her again? And this time, maybe…for good.

©2022 Juliette Cross, LLC (P)2023 Podium Audio

Slow Burn but sooo worth it!

NARRATION
Johanna Fairview narration as the FMC was AMAZING! I loved her new authoritative role and how she could narrate as someone so refine and yet someone who is finally losing herself to her wants. Aiden Snow narration continues to get more refine with each character and i loved it. This book definitely felt like the narrators are taking into account the other narrators inflections or persona. it bittersweet because i know this series is ending soon but i am living for it.

STORY
Mr. Cross, Juliette if i may, what are you doing to me?!?!?! My obsession with this series becoming a bit much (haha), these character are making me want to learn more about each of them and continue to see how their lives continue.

The fifth book in this series revolves around the oldest Savoie sister, Jules Savoie, and the vampire overlord of New Orleans, Ruben Dubois, which has the longest tease since book one. This was the longest slow burn that took the span of 4 books; I will say that they jumped it in the book because it was hinted multiple times throughout the books. It wasn't really a slow burn in this book itself but since we have seen the relationship between to Jules and Ruben within the previous books, it definitely felt like it.

I found this book very entertaining and I loved how they leaned on each other even though they had a "negative" history with each other. I liked that the other left the tension there for a little bit and did not bypass it like a passing issues. She made it apparent and kept bringing it up. This was the biggest growth between characters.

Finally Ruben & Jules

This series has been captivated and I am loving each book more than the last. Jules and Ruben have been circling each other for so long and we finally get their story. And what a story it was. I absolutely loved this book as there was more action and mystery than the last books and that is definitely by cuppa.

As always the narration from Aiden Snow and Johanna Fairview were spot on and so enjoyable. I love the way they both are able to change up the different characters as the series progresses.

suspensville ending

continuation of the family story was very satisfying. now, I have to look up the book

Great series!

Loving this series and the weaving of the storylines of the characters! On to the next book!

Accents were weird but the story was great

I love these characters and this world. It was such a pleasure to finally get to understand what happened between Jules and Ruben. He's always been so enigmatic and you just knew he was waiting to get Jules back. And I liked how the second chance romance was handled. It felt a little different from other books that use this trope though, the reuniting was inevitable to both of the characters rather than something to fight off. And I think I liked that. Due to the story taking place across the pond, we did have less sister/family moments than in previous books. Also, I kinda wanted a really badass, "I'm the most powerful witch in NOLA" moment from Jules and her moment of power didn't live up to what I wanted. However, the romance was just *chef's kiss.* And man... The spice hits and hits hard in this book. Literally in the damn prologue hahahaha.

I can't wait for Clara's book 📚

Overall
Story ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Spice 🌶️🌶️🌶️
Audio 🎧🎧🎧 (accents were not done very well unfortunately)