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A review by brittanythebookdragon
The Midnight Witch by Paula Brackston
5.0
Good gracious there was A LOT going on in this book. I found it to be a little different from Brackston's typical writing style. Her language was quite....verbose but after a while I didn't mind it so much. She also did a mix of points of view...for instance, Lilith was always in first person but she would switch it up third person when dealing with other characters. I feel like it's the first time she's truly gone into such depth as to the backstories of other characters. Typically, the reader gets information about other characters from conversations between characters or from what the protagonist supplies; but this time we were able to get the information a different way. I felt by her doing this, we were able to get more in depth with all characters and not just Lilith.
It did start out slow...I'm not going to lie. However, once I got into the story and really started going I didn't want to stop...thus the reason I just finished the book at 4:30 in the morning and I have to be at church at 9am. I really like how she made me love certain characters and utterly loathe others. And honestly, I don't even think I loathed the main antagonist, Nicholas Stricklend. I was hell bent on hating Gudrund because she was such a....for lack of a better term...bitch. Just because she was a slutty mistress didn't mean she had to go around dashing the hopes and dreams of love for other people. Ugh...gingers...
I loved Bram. He was a man of outstanding character from the very beginning but I also want to know if he became a witch or not...way to leave me hanging. I like to think Lilith, in her risen witch form, went on to train him in the art of witchcraft and necromancy. I liked that Brackston brought about a good and evil side to necromancy. Those, the Lazarus witches, who commune with spirits for divination purposes, and those, the Sentinels, who would seek to raise an army of dead brought back to life.
There were also some pretty good plot twists and plenty of blackmail...and not like monetary blackmail, but the I'll kill your whole family if you don't do as I ask blackmail. Very interesting...
So..it's not her usual style and she did get a bit wordy sometimes, but all in all a good book with a happy ending. Definitely wasn't enough to turn me off from her; but I think you have to be a true Brackston fan to stick with it. If you've never read her, try The Witch's Daughter first. Become a fan and then read this one. I fear her language may turn some people off. As for me though, I'll definitely be reading The Silver Witch in the near future.
It did start out slow...I'm not going to lie. However, once I got into the story and really started going I didn't want to stop...thus the reason I just finished the book at 4:30 in the morning and I have to be at church at 9am. I really like how she made me love certain characters and utterly loathe others. And honestly, I don't even think I loathed the main antagonist, Nicholas Stricklend. I was hell bent on hating Gudrund because she was such a....for lack of a better term...bitch. Just because she was a slutty mistress didn't mean she had to go around dashing the hopes and dreams of love for other people. Ugh...gingers...
I loved Bram. He was a man of outstanding character from the very beginning but I also want to know if he became a witch or not...way to leave me hanging. I like to think Lilith, in her risen witch form, went on to train him in the art of witchcraft and necromancy. I liked that Brackston brought about a good and evil side to necromancy. Those, the Lazarus witches, who commune with spirits for divination purposes, and those, the Sentinels, who would seek to raise an army of dead brought back to life.
There were also some pretty good plot twists and plenty of blackmail...and not like monetary blackmail, but the I'll kill your whole family if you don't do as I ask blackmail. Very interesting...
So..it's not her usual style and she did get a bit wordy sometimes, but all in all a good book with a happy ending. Definitely wasn't enough to turn me off from her; but I think you have to be a true Brackston fan to stick with it. If you've never read her, try The Witch's Daughter first. Become a fan and then read this one. I fear her language may turn some people off. As for me though, I'll definitely be reading The Silver Witch in the near future.