Book: Witch Child
Authors: Celia Rees
Genre: Young Adult, Historical Fiction, Paranormal: Witches;
Pages: 240 pages
Format: Paperback
Goodreads rating: 3.79
My ratings: 3 stars
Online Store: Used book from Awesomebooks
My Review:
Witch Child had been on my shelf for over a year until I finally picked it up and decided to read it. It’s a story about a girl named Mary that is a witch and the book is written in the format of her secret diary. It’s set in the 17th century where women were burned or hanged without any trials for the most simple suspicions of them being witches.
Mary has the gift of being able to see into people’s past, present and future and her spirit animal is the wolf. This is where I started having some issues with the book. Her powers were one of the most interesting aspects of the story and I feel that the fact that she related to wolves and could connect with them had almost no use or explanation at all and felt somewhat unfinished. Her predicting powers were, again, only used once and that made them a bit pointless, in my eyes.
I struggled with the beggining of the book, I was just not interested in this kind of story and I even though of setting the book aside but as I continued on with the story, motivated by the fact that this is a very short book, I found myself interested and entertained with everything that was happening.
It was, for me, a good book. Nothing more. I think the plot and the story could have been more developed and as the book ended abruptly I found myself wishing for more of Mary’s life story. Either way, it’s a solid three star book and if you like witches and historical fiction, you might want to pick this one up.
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