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The House Witch by Delemhach

15 reviews

blueyedwonder's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny hopeful lighthearted mysterious tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse and Domestic abuse

Moderate: Homophobia and Miscarriage

Minor: War, Violence, and Vomit

jems_'s review against another edition

4.75

Okay, how do I describe this? I‘m honestly still a bit giddy after finishing this. It was funny, cozy and entertaining to read. Despite it being over 600 pages long, it still contained enough material to entertain me thoroughly. 

The characters were all unique and lovely and I came to love most of them a lot. The themes of home and food were heartwarming and mouthwatering respectively and I was just very happy to read this.

I love cozy witchy stories and this was just that, albeit having some points of tension and some more difficult topics in it.

Frankly, I knew I would like this book from the moment Kraken and Eric were introduced. I suppose I have a sweet spot for cats and sweet little children. 

There were points in this book where it might’ve felt a tiiiny bit too immature and the kind of miscommunication in it positively infuriated me towards the later parts of the book but none of that can justify me lowering my rating much more right now. I liked this far too much.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Child abuse, and Domestic abuse

Moderate: Alcohol, Sexual harassment, Vomit, Miscarriage, and Alcoholism

Minor: Homophobia

emerentina's review

adventurous dark funny lighthearted relaxing sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pregnancy, Miscarriage, Blood, and Physical abuse

Moderate: Violence, Child death, Misogyny, Injury/Injury detail, Fire/Fire injury, Hate crime, Addiction, Racial slurs, Vomit, Sexual harassment, Religious bigotry, Emotional abuse, Domestic abuse, Alcohol, and Alcoholism

Minor: War

heyheyhaley's review against another edition

emotional funny lighthearted mysterious relaxing medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Violence, War, Sexual assault, and Vomit

k_fry's review

adventurous emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual harassment, Vomit, Miscarriage, Pregnancy, and Murder

Moderate: Hate crime, Homophobia, War, and Physical abuse

littleraeeofsunshine's review against another edition

funny lighthearted relaxing medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.75

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Content Warnings

Minor: War, Miscarriage, Vomit, and Alcohol

jackieren's review

funny lighthearted slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Pregnancy, Miscarriage, Alcoholism, Medical content, Murder, Vomit, War, Sexual assault, and Alcohol

k_bb's review

adventurous lighthearted

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

2.0

These are not good books. I suppose it does qualify as cozy fantasy, but the characters are flat, the plot lacks conviction and I felt that the humour intends to be more funny than it actually is. There are plenty problematic elements as well, but I can’t be bothered with an extensive review. If this weren’t on Kindle Unlimited I’d be very disappointed in spending money on it. I’ve read most of the second book too and it only gets worse.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Alcohol, Vomit, Classism, and Domestic abuse

emma_reading_love's review

adventurous funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted reflective sad fast-paced

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

4.0

The House Witch was the surprise runaway hit of my cozy magical bookclub! Everyone loved it, and it was the liveliest conversation we’ve had so far in the group. The premise is that Fin is a house witch who has moved to the castle to be the head cook, but he doesn’t want anyone to know he’s a witch. I was nervous when I picked it up, because this book is long, 461 pages in print and 18 hours on audio. That’s a lot of book for a cozy, but it ended up being super fun the whole time. There were lots of plots and subplots that stayed clear and coherent throughout the story, and the characters were all interesting. It was lighthearted and funny, while also having real depth. I highly recommend it if you want to get lost in a new fantasy world while also reading lots of descriptions of delicious food. I do have a couple notes, though. This is a series, and though some plots get wrapped up in this first book, a lot is left open at the end. Plus there are a couple content warnings you might want to look up on StoryGraph. I’m a highly sensitive reader and was fine, but there are certain themes that might not be for every reader. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol

Moderate: Pregnancy, Child abuse, Sexual harassment, and Vomit

wanderonwards's review

funny lighthearted reflective slow-paced

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

2.75

I loved the concept of a male domestic witch, especially one working as a royal cook! I'm also excited to see more slice-of-life, low stakes fantasy. However, this was originally webfic and it still reads like something that was written in installments rather than one cohesive narrative, and some chapters with different POVs really read like filler rather than building depth or advancing the plot. While the premise was wonderful, the novel would have benefited from more polishing and a sensitivity read for some problematic things. My biggest issues were with the supporting characters (of which many felt like caricatures rather than developed individuals) and the world building (which acknowledged that things like homophobia, sexism, and strict class divides were awful and shouldn't exist in the world...but then went ahead and included them anyway and didn't satisfactorily address them).

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Vomit, Alcohol, Pregnancy, Homophobia, Misogyny, Sexual harassment, Violence, Alcoholism, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Sexism, and Classism

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail and Blood