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A review by bargainbookquest
Crescent Calling by Nicole R. Taylor
4.0
3.75*
Meet Skye, a young woman that learns the mother she has seen in years has passed away and, in order to inherit a home, a store and three bank account, she leaves everything behind to move to Ireland. In the past week, she lost her dad, her job and her boyfriend. She goes to Ireland with no intention of staying but everything seems to prevent her from selling and leaving with the money. And then she learns she's the last of the Crescent witches and she's got to protect Ireland's magic.
This book was enjoyable but I found it both slow and rushed at the same time. We get hints here and there about who Skye is but it takes a while until she actually does. And then things start to happen pretty fast and it feels too easy. Also, the Craglorn (villain of the story) doesn't sense Skye until she does a little magic one day but, to me, that doesn't make sense. It's a magical being that should have detected the arrival of another magical being no matter if actual magic was involved or not. And I could basically care less for the almost insta love towards the end.
Other than that, I loved the little village of Derrydun and I would have loved to live there so much. Skye was interesting but I cared more about other characters in the story like Mairhead and I am pretty interested in knowing more about Boone's backstory. Hopefully book two is better but it's a good start to an interesting story anyway.
Meet Skye, a young woman that learns the mother she has seen in years has passed away and, in order to inherit a home, a store and three bank account, she leaves everything behind to move to Ireland. In the past week, she lost her dad, her job and her boyfriend. She goes to Ireland with no intention of staying but everything seems to prevent her from selling and leaving with the money. And then she learns she's the last of the Crescent witches and she's got to protect Ireland's magic.
This book was enjoyable but I found it both slow and rushed at the same time. We get hints here and there about who Skye is but it takes a while until she actually does. And then things start to happen pretty fast and it feels too easy. Also, the Craglorn (villain of the story) doesn't sense Skye until she does a little magic one day but, to me, that doesn't make sense. It's a magical being that should have detected the arrival of another magical being no matter if actual magic was involved or not. And I could basically care less for the almost insta love towards the end.
Other than that, I loved the little village of Derrydun and I would have loved to live there so much. Skye was interesting but I cared more about other characters in the story like Mairhead and I am pretty interested in knowing more about Boone's backstory. Hopefully book two is better but it's a good start to an interesting story anyway.