Reviews

Witchdame by Kathleen Sky

hawkelf's review

I like watching community theater melodramas, and I like watching cartoonish 70s/80s medieval fantasy movies. And the very 80s flavored sexuality of the book didn't turn me away. But I think maybe readingw a cartoonish medieval fantasy melodrama whose characters I started making myself picture with 1960s haircuts to make the heavyhanded dialogue work... I think maybe that's not my thing? Also I got over 100 pages in and hadn't started liking the heroine yet, skipped forward, and didn't see a sign of much character growth. shrug emoticon

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Incest and Sexual content

Minor: Ableism and Xenophobia

ritualistic incest, and simulated ritualistic magic incest; very 80s fantasy about it, only comes up a few times but semi-graphic at least once, and discussed somewhat at length

silvernfire's review

4.0

I adored this book back when I read it in high school and college. All these years later, I admit I see more flaws in it: a narrative that staggers between detailed scenes and rushed endings, an abrupt halt at the end of the book, and characters that could be more fully developed. Still, I found myself wishing, like back in high school, that the author had returned to this world and written more stories in it: the hints of an Elven (Roman) past, the mysteries of Faerie (Ireland), and the unresolved tensions between the woodwitches, witchlords, and humans all left me wanting to know more about Englene and its neighbors.

Okay, and I liked Elizabeth. Must be because we have the same name. :)

ajlenertz's review

5.0

I never get tired of this one.