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A Witch in Time by Constance Sayers

29 reviews

kimzeyk's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious medium-paced

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

3.5

I’ve enjoyed some of the author’s later books, so I was excited about this one.  I liked the concept overall, and the entwining of multiple lives was interesting. 

For me, the parts about

the curse didn’t feel like they fit.  I felt that Lucian’s role needed less explanation - every time they called him the administrator, it made it feel more like comic fantasy, á la Michael Moore.  It seemed sort of shoehorned in as a way to have a third point in the love triangle. 

I expected that Helen would be the most powerful of the four, but we never see that.  I assumed she would bring Lucian back, but just before he reappears, she says she doesn’t use her powers because the cost is too great.  It made the ending fall flat for me. 

 

You can definitely see that Sayers has grown as a writer since this novel.  

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Stalking, Suicide, Drug abuse, Sexual violence, Adult/minor relationship, Rape, Domestic abuse, and Miscarriage

Minor: Vomit, War, Infertility, and Pregnancy

sarah_sedai_blueajah's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious sad medium-paced

• 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? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship, Rape, Adult/minor relationship, and Death

Moderate: Drug use, Gun violence, and Suicide

devilsivyandpaperbacks's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

This book 🥹 It made me sob. The love story was poignant. The characters endearing and I couldn't help but cheer for every version of Juliet even though I knew how it ended. The ending kept me on my toes, I truly didn't know what would happen. I knew about half way that if the ending was solid it would be a 5/5 for me and I was right! 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Rape

twinkling_star's review against another edition

emotional mysterious reflective sad medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Suicide, Emotional abuse, and Rape

micaela_s's review against another edition

dark mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No

2.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Abortion, Car accident, Death, Emotional abuse, Suicide, Abandonment, Miscarriage, Rape, Suicide attempt, and Sexual assault

dryftveil's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad medium-paced

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

4.0

if it wasn't for the uncomfortable age differences, i could argue for this to be 5 stars because of the cool idea and the way

the different reincarnations of characters

are written and established.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Adult/minor relationship, Physical abuse, Emotional abuse, and Rape

Moderate: Alcohol, Abortion, Blood, Suicide, and Drug use

Minor: Sexual content

rocketdea's review against another edition

Abandono porque no lo soporto más.

Los personajes masculinos son maltratadores, intereses románticos o el amigo gay (con el que solo habla de amoríos además).
Los personajes femeninos son figuras negativas que, o bien son objeto de adulterio y abandono del interés romántico de la protagonista o bien tienen funciones como provocar un aborto satánico.
Las relaciones "románticas" son terriblemente tóxicas y verticales (diferencia de edad, siendo en una ocasión ella menor de edad, diferencias y dependencia económica...).
Por ejemplo, en la primera de las vidas pasadas la protagonista, de 16 años, se enamora y acuesta con un tío mayor que ella. Su madre se entera, hace que el tío abandone a la chica y le practica un aborto con un conjuro satánico que termina con la muerte de la propia madre. Parece que a la autora le parece que la chica aún necesita más traumas, así que hace que la violen dos tipos y luego le orinen encima. Siguiendo con esta misma línea, las cosas empiezan a mejorar pero se acaba enamorando de otro tipo mayor que se casa con otra y la chica se acaba suicidando. La segunda vida no es mucho mejor, pero creo que con la primera ya queda claro.

En fin, que he aguantado hasta la mitad y ya no lo soporto más. Cuanto más escucho, más me cabreo.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Suicide attempt, Suicide, Sexual violence, Rape, Sexism, Death of parent, Sexual harassment, Toxic relationship, Emotional abuse, and Abortion

intensej's review against another edition

emotional reflective fast-paced

4.5

Juliet LaCompte is a 16 year old girl in France who falls in love with Auguste Marchant, a painter. They start a secret relationship while she poses for his paintings. When her mother learns about their relationship, she curses Auguste. However, the curse goes wrong and it binds Juliet to live out a failed relationship with Auguste for each lifetime. The demon that powers Juliet's curse, Luke, has fallen in love with Juliet and must see her make the same mistakes with Auguste each lifetime. Luke has to wait for Juliet to remember their shared past before time runs out. The reader sees the reincarnated Juliet and Auguste live out their tragic love story in Hollywood in the 1930s, Los Angeles and Taos in the 1970s, and Washington, DC. in 2012. Juliet attempts to remove the curse before time runs out.

Sayers does a great job of creating memorable characters and threading the different reincarnations of Juliet together. I thought the ending of the book was satisfying. I enjoyed the way Sayers wrote about music and painting. It reminded me of the way Patrick Rothfuss described music in The Name of the Wind. Fans of The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue will enjoy this book. A Witch in Time would be a good book for a book discussion. 

Content: sexual assault, suicide, abortion 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide and Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: Sexual assault, Sexual content, Rape, Abortion, and Adult/minor relationship

hannahrosey's review against another edition

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Infertility, Abortion, Blood, Rape, Miscarriage, Infidelity, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Car accident, Death, Adult/minor relationship, Suicide, Murder, Drug use, and Pregnancy

ka_ke's review against another edition

adventurous dark reflective slow-paced

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

2.0

At first, it started strong, Helen’s first two lives are very interesting, but by the third time around, I was bored. I think the book would have benefitted by cutting the third life out entirely. A Witch in Time is also much darker than I was anticipating, so be wary if you’re squeamish or don’t like contemporary violence. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Suicide, Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual assault, Toxic relationship, Body shaming, Death, Gore, Car accident, Blood, Body horror, Child abuse, Cursing, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Misogyny, Rape, Sexual violence, and Vomit

Moderate: Abortion, Abandonment, Classism, Adult/minor relationship, Drug use, Stalking, Bullying, Drug abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Homophobia, Infertility, Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, Pregnancy, and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Miscarriage, Pedophilia, Medical trauma, Homophobia, Sexual content, Gun violence, and Medical content