Witches Protection Program has a decent story concept, and the overall story was mostly a moderately fun read.

The book suffers from a number of issues that prevent it from being a great read, such as:
* a few strong and supposedly smart personalities that oddly but consistently degenerate into simplistic screaming childishness when upset (especially later in the story);
* a main romantic relationship that basically springs into place out of nowhere; and
* a frequently recurring problem with basic scene continuity and causality: a snake the size of a huge suspension bridge cable that slithers up a man's pantleg, a gun that materializes very much out of nowhere without comment, a lasso that snares securely one moment and is trivially slipped out of the next, etc. This was frequent and significant enough to be moderately frustrating up to about 70% through the book, at which point the action started to ramp up and these speedbumps got a lot worse.

Overall, the story feels like an average high school student's first draft of a good plot idea that could evolve into a solidly good story after some serious refinement, specifically a lot more care toward thinking through scene continuity, character development, and action detail. ( )

Witches Protection Program begins with Wesley (Wes) Rockville, a cop who was reassigned into the witches protection program. His partner, Alistair Verne, briefs him on his first case which involves a woman named Junie “Bags” Meadows and Morgan Pendragon. Morgan’s aunt is trying to release a new cosmetics product that will allow her to control whoever uses it and Wes (and company) are trying to stop her.

I thought this book was entertaining at first, but honestly, it was just too much to have been written in only 200 pages. There was a lot of information that would’ve been useful to know in order to follow the storyline better that just wasn’t there.

My biggest issue was the romance that was just thrown in there. There was no build up and no development. It kinda just felt like it went from 0 to 100 just because. There should’ve been more time dedicated to character development. ( )

Witch's cats and broomsticks, spells and potions, toads and kisses, and glowing goo. Witches protection program is a fun little read about the divisions of witches and the mortals that"mind" them. Just when the plot starts to get predictable, he throws in a twist you aren't expecting to keep it interesting. ( )

At times zany, at others edgy, this is a fun, fast, paranormal read with nice twists, good chemistry between Wes and Morgan. Definitely a good suggestion for libraries where paranormal is popular. ( )

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Prime Directive: Protect the Witches. That's the reason for the arm of NYPD known as The Witches Protection Program/Defenders of the Craft. It's a law enforcement branch nearly as old as the country and its newest member is of a family long involved, an unbeliever who is sure that it's all a big joke, and dyslexic. Great fun! Loved it!
I requested and received a free ebook copy from WordFire Press via NetGalley. ( )