The Babysitter's Coven - Kate Williams

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Title: The Babysitter's Coven
Author: Kate Williams
Genre: Paranormal
Rating: 3/5
# pages: 320
Date read: July, 2020

Seventeen-year-old Esme Pearl has a babysitters club. She knows it's kinda lame, but what else is she supposed to do? Get a job? Gross. Besides, Esme likes babysitting, and she's good at it.

And lately Esme needs all the cash she can get, because it seems like destruction follows her wherever she goes. Let's just say she owes some people a new tree.

Enter Cassandra Heaven. She's Instagram-model hot, dresses like she found her clothes in a dumpster, and has a rebellious streak as gnarly as the cafeteria food. So why is Cassandra willing to do anything, even take on a potty-training two-year-old, to join Esme's babysitters club?

The answer lies in a mysterious note Cassandra's mother left her: "Find the babysitters. Love, Mom."

Turns out, Esme and Cassandra have more in common than they think, and they're about to discover what being a babysitter really means: a heroic lineage of superpowers, magic rituals, and saving the innocent from seriously terrifying evil. And all before the parents get home.


Babysitter's Club meets Buffy the Vampire Slayer... I had no idea what to expect when starting this book, but strangely enough this mix actually worked! It's not high literature, but kept me nicely entertained, and I'll probably end up picking up the next book as well, once it's out.

I liked Esme and Janis, but Cassandra got on my nerves after awhile. I hope she'll calm down a bit now, and stop abusing her powers, because that's going to get old fast! I also hope that future books will keep the mix to a pretty even 50/50 BSC and BtVS - but have a feeling the Buffy part will take over rather quickly. Time will show.