A review by slc333
Necessary Magic by Val St. Crowe

3.0

2.5 star. Interesting world and I enjoyed the set up, and Bree’s relationship with the unicorns. I did feel sorry for Jack and his mother with her life of slavery and torture but I still didn’t particularly like him and felt the romance/attraction between Jack and Bree was all tell and no show. It was too sudden and completely unbelievable. I mean they don’t even meet until more than 2/3 of the way in. Then they run into each other 3 or 4 times (at Jack’s contrivance) and have like 1 real conversation. There is no way that this would be enough for Jack to go against centuries of obedience to the witches seducing and ruining women to protect his mother. And telling us that he has dreamt of her for years isn’t enough to sell it. And Bree’s interest is even less believable.