How spicy is Payback's a Witch?

Sources for these ratings

• loveinpanels.com: Lists an f-f sapphic pairing and tropes including return to hometown, a revenge pact, competition, and witches, with a focus on family and small-town life. Covers pairing and tropes.
• queerkentucky.com: Notes a slow-burn romance with open-door scenes that run a page or two, and lists a return-to-hometown trope alongside a magical-competition revenge plot. Covers spice level and tropes.
• dailydrunkmag.com: Describes a revenge plot in which the heroine returns to her small hometown for a magical competition between three families, with the story leaning on her plan to leave afterward. Covers tropes.
• llamareadsbooks.com: Describes a heroine returning to her hometown after nine years, pulled back by a family request to compete in a magical contest. Names no specific tropes. Covers tropes.
• readersenjoyauthorsdreams.com: Names a fictional revenge plot and a slow-burn pairing of Emmy and Talia as tropes the book leans on. Covers tropes.
• smartbitchestrashybooks.com: Lists the cozy, small-town setting as the book's main theme in the trope discussion. Covers tropes.
• treatyourshelf.home.blog: Describes the premise of an ex-revenge plot in which the heroine's scheme pulls her toward a rival, with the tropes listed on the page. Covers tropes.

Tropes

• Competition
• Revenge
• Return to hometown
• Slow burn
• Small town

Facts

Point of view:

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Ending:

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Standalone or series:

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Series completed:

Not enough data

Darkness:

Not enough data

Pairing:

F/F (estimate)

Like this but spicier

• Things We Hide from the Light: Also slow burn and small town; spice 4/5 vs about 2/5 here
• The Fiancé Dilemma: Also slow burn and small town; spice 3/5 vs about 2/5 here
• Book Lovers: Also small town; spice about 3–4/5 vs about 2/5 here

Where to get it

• Bookshop.org

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