I fell out of love with this author but didn't notice for some time.
This book provided the sad epiphany.
This author has written maybe around 2-3 books that are actually distinct enough to deserve this label and she has been using and reusing the templates from these books over and over again for many years now.
My biggest problem with this is that each book reintroduces the same concepts and the same opinions over and over again.
In earlier books, I didn't mind this because characters are allowed to have strong opinions regardless of whether I agree or not. But the problem is that all the characters are identical in every aspect of their personalities.
They all seem to just blatantly echo the authors' opinions and worldviews without even a little subtlety or variety. This makes for a cast of almost identical characters beyond a few key templated differences which are always the same across books.
There are maybe 5 distinct characters across all her plethora of books.
I don't actually hard disagree with most of what the author is selling here in terms of opinions, but its kind of like if your grandparent tells you the same story for the twentieth time and you simply can not bear it anymore (no offense grandma, I love you!).
Beyond this simple problem of ever-repeating storylines, personalities, and quirks/running gags the author seems to have gotten tired of reintroducing the same things over and over again as well.
This leads to most of her later books being chock-full of incredibly dry exposition not only because I have heard it all dozens of times before but also because the delivery is just lazy. It's basically just the characters telling you, the reader, everything almost outright. A lot of it doesn't feel like a story but a moral lecture.
There are other types of stories where this can be somewhat less of a problem because there is so much more going on in terms of complexity and depth (some great high fantasy and sci-fi stories come to mind) but this is supposed to be light and entertaining. At least it seems to me like this is the goal here. There is no room for terribly paced and dry world-building like this.

There are many more ambiguous potential points I could criticize but I have gotten to like many of the authors' eccentricities in how she tells her story and how her humor works. It feels a bit like an acquired taste to me.

I just wish the author would actually write a new and interesting story. To be fair, it is actually incredibly hard to come up with new ideas if you have already gotten through the stories you always wanted to tell. To me it feels a bit like it's less a case of laziness or deliberate recycling of her older stories but that she just doesn't have more to say so she inevitably keeps retelling these same stories.

In conclusion, I will probably not touch another book by this author at least for some time. Maybe she will find new stories to tell eventually. ( )

This is the first of a spinoff series from Magical Romantic Comedy (with a body count). It's pretty much a direct sequel to Catnapped (though we don't actually get to see the Devil and his daughter throwing a fit in court - it's only described, at the start of this book). The Devil is a major character, the consequences of Diana's discoveries in Catnapped start playing out (it's also connected to Whatever For Hire's events, and A Chip on Her Shoulder, and...). The incessant matchmaking gets annoying, and the fact that it always works...is equally annoying. But it's a good story, explains a bit more about the world and why the Devil and the angels (and /He/) are all on the same side at this point. And does all that without distracting from the immediate story, Sandra and Jonas. Fun, worth reading and rereading. ( )