A review by adancewithbooks
The Once and Future Witches by Alix E. Harrow

mysterious reflective slow-paced

3.0


Thank you to Little Brown Book Group UK and Orbit for the review copy in exchange for an honest review. This does not change my opinion in anyway

 I enjoyed Alix E. Harrow's first book so I was excited to read this next book by her. However I didn't quite enjoy this book as much as I hoped. I mean, its about witches, where did it go wrong? 

For me I think it went wrong with the characters. We follow three sisters who had a hard life and who were separated 7 years previous. They all gravitate towards New Salem and in 1893 find each other once more. I though there the excitement would start but I never found it. I couldn't quite get myself to care about the 3 main characters. I still feel like I only scratched the surface on them. Maybe I would have liked it better if we had followed just the one character's point of view. There ended up being an awful lot of switches between the three. I just didn't care if any of them lived or died. 

And I felt no excitement about the story. The start tried to create almost a fairy tale like feeling with the rhymes and such, but throughout the story there was no such thing. It was honestly boring in places, especially nearing the mid of the book. Like I said before, there was no excitement to be had. I don't need to be surprised by twists. But I do need to care. And I never did.
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