This was mostly a kids book about a time-resetting warlock detective helping a twelve year old girl find her father and reveal who killed her mother. The comedy was very cutesy, with endless parts where the grumpy warlock sighs, pinches his nose, rubs his forehead, and info dumps an explanation of his magic, his detective process, or how magic bargains with other creatures work. Bree was also narrated with girlish glee, as if she was 6 instead of 12, and the constant patter of questions from Bree, or her excitement over clothes and shiny things combined to make this a cloying listen.
But, then there was the occasional F bomb or mention of OnlyFanz. Along the way in the investigation, they take sniper fire. There’s a scene where they find dozens of cats with their throats slashed (to which Bree fails to respond with so much as a gasp). All in all it was a tonally unbalanced story with a lot of ‘who talks like that’ dialogue, and an exhausting Groundhog Day plot development. Even if later books dropped the kid, I don’t think the time-loop schtick is for me.