Reviews with content warning for Infertility - The House Witch 2

This book picked up immediately where book one ended, and stopped in the middle of the events it had been building toward.
There was more frustration, less character growth, and some very heavy handed foreshadowing, but overall still a fun read!
A lot of my favorite characters were barely mentioned (I think one knight had maybe three lines & Hannah only had one memorable conversation. Eric warranted two paragraphs. Kraken barely gets any story line & his exploits seemed like the most fun.)
There's also characters we meet & never hear about again, so I'm wondering if they'll show up in book three or if they were used as a distraction/filler, since they didn't really add anything to the plot besides making the rehead tired.

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emotional funny hopeful lighthearted medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.5

This book would be fine (I liked it better than the first one to be honest) if it wasn’t for one very uncomfortable scene:

There is a character in this book that, when the protagonist meets them, is described as a man in a dress using a feminine voice, and is deliberately addressed using he/him pronouns, which set off all sorts of transphobic red flags in my mind. It’s revealed that this character is not in fact trans, but has multiple personalities inside of them, at least one of which being a woman. This didn’t make me feel much better, because even though the character is not actually transgender, the fact remains that the stigma associating transgender people with mental illness is very real and very harmful, and it just gives me a bad feeling about the entire scene/character.

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