The aforementioned ad is looking for an assistant who is an expert in Spellcraft, her absolute favorite collectible card game. What more could she want? Only she's a bit off the mark and she soon realizes that her would-be employer, an elderly daffy woman of ridiculous wealth named Drusilla Magnus, believes she is an actual witch and is searching for a new familiar, since her current one, Lisa, is soon to give birth. Naturally, Reggie thinks the sweet old bird is off her rocker and that the people around her are simply catering to her fantasies, but the salary pays $25,000 a week (!!!) and Reggie has a lot of debt and can't seem to hold a job for any length of time. Mainly because she is obsessive about organization and reorganizes everyone's everything, even if they don't want it.
Aside from the weird witch stuff, there's also Dru's nephew, Ben Magnus, a tall, dark and sexy grump who is most unpleasant. At least he is only visiting. For now.
Reggie is stunned to find out that the position is a live-in job, because who knows when Dru might need her assistance, so she breaks the news about that and the ginormous salary to her best friend, Nick, who is a little worried about her and the weirdness of the job. However, on the plus side, Nick has just started dating a handsome military man who works out at Nick's gym, so he might appreciate the roommate-free apartment in the coming weeks.
As Reggie gets acclimated to her new position as Dru's familiar, she notices many odd things about Aunt Dru's home and the peculiar way she talks, almost as if she is a real throwback, talking about curse tablets and such. Little does she realize that Dru is 2000+ years old and comes from a powerful line of Roman magic users, and her nephew Ben AKA Caliban to Aunt Dru, is a 500 year old warlock. A really hot warlock, as Reggie has definitely noticed. Things are about to get really interesting.
Needless to say, it takes a lot before Reggie finally realizes magic is real, and when she eventually does, the trauma of it all actually draws her closer to Ben, and he's secretly been crushing on her as well, so it's not all bad. At least, until someone curses Lisa with a mildly annoying curse of not being able to open doors, but then Aunt Dru is also cursed with a sleeping spell, which could eventually kill her. Ben and Reggie spring into action and are determined to find out who is behind this horrible act, but in doing so, Ben's bad reputation will be made worse since it looks like he has stolen his now-cursed aunt's familiar. Could he be behind the whole thing? Reggie and Ben had better find out the truth before it is too late for Dru.
Go Hex Yourself is a fun romp and a modern take on the romance novel, but it is chock full of steamy sex scenes. Like the very descriptive type where the characters moon over each at length and talk about possessing one another ad nauseum. Now, I'm not a prude by any means and I don't mind sex scenes, but I typically don't seek out the "50 Shades" type of books, personally. So if that sort of thing isn't your cup of tea, well, if you read this book, your cup will overfloweth, whether you like it or not. If you don't mind it, the book is an amusing little adventure and Jessica Clare has fun with wordplay for the reader's benefit.
