4.5 stars
Clementine “Clemmie” Monroe has a lot of trust issues, and they’re all because of the men in her life. Clemmie is one of three sisters, born within three months of one another, from three very different women who all got knocked up by her carefree rock star father, Rip Harris. Instead of being jealous or upset about the fact that her husband had been unfaithful, Clemmie’s mother divorced her father, bought a large house and invited the two other women to live with her. So while Clemmie has been unlucky in the father department, she’s basically had three mothers and two ride or die sisters supporting her while growing up.
Unfortunately, even when her father proved time and time again that he couldn’t really be trusted to remember things like visitations or special events in his daughters’ lives, Clemmie kept hoping against hope that he would someday be better. Her trust issues with men did not get better after her first relationship ended with the guy, who had already been emotionally manipulating her for a long time, dumping her to go take a job as a drummer in her father’s band. Clemmie has sworn to never have anything to do with musicians ever since.
Going in a vastly different direction with her next long-term relationship, Clemmie chose someone reliable and safe (and extremely boring, according to her sisters), but ended up heartbroken all the same. Her very boring boyfriend of several years not only dumped her to move in with another woman, but even had the audacity to take her cat when he left! Then she is fired, and has no idea how she’s going to keep paying for her flat, since she now has to cover all the rent herself.
The first time Clemmie went through a bad breakup, her sisters supported her, and they had a witchy ceremony casting what they named “the Breakup spell”, where they cursed the man who wronged her and each made wishes for what the future would bring for her. Now they get her drunk and resurrect the spell. It involves a lot of candles, Fleetwood Mac on a portable speaker, and then the women cast three wishes and a curse. The curse is for Clemmie’s disappointing boyfriend to never satisfy anyone sexually ever again (and have a permanent itchy groin rash). Clem’s record executive sister wishes her to have hot sex (both her sisters feel that some casual hook-ups would be exactly what the doctor ordered, mainly because Clem has never done casual in her life), Clem herself wishes for a job doing what she loves, while Clem’s sensitive indie musician sister Lil wishes for “big love, the unconditional, wholehearted, soul mate kind.”
Full review here.
