2022 book 156

 Hazel Beck's Small Town, Big Magic

This is another book that’s being marketed as “a witchy rom-com,” though this one does have some romance in it (the description makes it seem like the heroine's love interest is the mayor, who is a very gross dude, and I was very relieved he was NOT the love interest). Anyway, our heroine owns the local bookstore in a small Missouri town and is also the proud president of the chamber of commerce, doing type-A things to improve their little town and attract tourists, when she’s attacked by dark creatures and discovers that actually the town was founded by witches, and all her friends are witches, and also SHE is a witch but had her memory wiped when she was 18 bc the local leaders deemed her powerless. But she does have powers? Now she and all her friends (I LOVE her friends) have to fight the growing dark magic in the town and also she and one dude have to confront their history of Feelings. It’s all very entertaining, though the end is a major cliffhanger, which is extremely unsatisfying. Let me see a witch battle!! A-.