For Better or Cursed

By: Kate M. Williams

Narrated by: Phoebe Strole

Adventures in Babysitting meets Buffy the Vampire Slayer in this funny, action-packed sequel about a coven of witchy babysitters who realize their calling to protect the innocent and save the world from an onslaught of evil.

Esme Pearl's life used to be all about bumming rides and babysitting. Sure, it wasn't glamorous, but it was predictable. All that changed when Cassandra Heaven came to town, and they discovered their complicated, and connected, legacy: Esme and Cassandra are Sitters, supernaturally-gifted teens armed with an ever-changing grimoire of Sitter witchcraft to help them protect the innocent and keep evil demons at bay. You know, the typical teenage stuff.
But just as Esme is starting to adjust to--and maybe even like--her new normal, life lobs another glitter bomb her way. The Synod--the Sitterhood's governing circle--has called a Summit, a once-in-a-generation gathering that promises training, education, and whole lot of ice-breakers.
Esme should be excited--a Summit might mean she can finally get the answers she desperately wants--but she can't shake a building sense of panic. Especially since Cassandra's not acting like herself; Esme's dad is MIA; Pig is out of dog food; Janis is scared to be alone; and there's a guy who seems too good to be true, again. Worst of all, it soon becomes clear, there's no one watching the kids. It's obvious the Summit is a haute mess, but will it be a deadly one, too?

Critic reviews

Praise for The Babysitters Coven Series:

A New York Public Library Best Book of the Year

“The Baby-Sitters Club...but spooky and with an Instagram-model-hot character for good measure.”—Cosmopolitan

“With winks at ’90s cult horror films…[this is] a high-energy series starter that's plenty of fun.” —Booklist

"Witty, sarcastic...[and] well pitched."—Publishers Weekly

“Buffy-meets-Babysitters Club, this frothy fantasy-horror will draw readers purely on its premise…. Decidedly on-trend with its witchy focus and its nostalgic-for-the-’90s reboot vibe.” —Bulletin

"Candy for ‘90s girls and Gen-Z’ers alike.” —Refinery29

"Baby-Sitters Club meets The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina in this delightful new young adult novel about two teenagers who discover that they're more than just babysitters." —Bustle

“A spectacular, exciting, gorgeously paced story.” —Boing Boing

"For chill fun and fun chills, there’s no better place to start than here."—Paste Magazine

A preorder I don’t regret

I preordered this in both audio and physical the first book felt perfectly paced. This felt a bit slower out the gate. That being said after the first few chapters it really picks up and gets you sucked in.

The bad: a slow start
The good: It really gets you sucked in a read you can definitely have fun with
Overall: slow start but great throughout.

Fans of the first will like

This was a good second story that expanded on the sitter mythology and Universe. I felt it was an abrupt ending that just left more questions than answers, so I hope a third book answers a lot of those plot holes. I felt that both characters Esme and Cassandra grew a bit but the other sitters were kind of thrown in and at the end are all friends. This seemed rushed to me, this could have been a longer story to expand on the other sitters, the sitter mythos more, and could have used at least a flash back of Esme's and Cassandra's parents and Wanda, which to me would have filled in a lot of plot holes. Overall wasn't bad and hope a third book fills in what the second left open. I wouldn't mind having a prequel book that gives a history of the characters parents and why Wanda hated them.