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A review by dmniccoli
The Witch of Tin Mountain by Paulette Kennedy
dark
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
5.0
Paulette Kennedy’s The Witch of Tin Mountain cleverly interweaves the threads of three generations of women, and what starts as a quiet, simmering horror turns into a bubbling and brewing revenge against an insidious returning evil.
I knew from Anneliese’s opening chapter that I was going to inhale this book. A witch burns, but her story’s not over, it continues through her descendants, and the promise of revenge had me by the throat.
The Ozarkian setting leaps off the page — it’s so clear how much heart and soul went into writing it. I love how the author uses nature and weather to create tension — so many subtle things that just gave me the chills. The land remembers and knows something’s wrong and the reader can’t ignore it.
On Anneliese, Deirdre, and Gracelynn: you can try and take their power away but it will haunt you. Their stories include such important and still relevant to today themes of bodily autonomy and choice.
If you’re a reader that likes hope at the end of your horror novels, there’s plenty of it here, which was so refreshing to see. This book is about three generations of women overcoming an evil that stalks their bloodline, so while there’s a smattering of romance and heartache throughout their stories, this book is not romance, AND YET, (SPOILERS:) I was pleasantly surprised and delighted to see how many of the characters still get happily ever afters anyways <3
I knew from Anneliese’s opening chapter that I was going to inhale this book. A witch burns, but her story’s not over, it continues through her descendants, and the promise of revenge had me by the throat.
The Ozarkian setting leaps off the page — it’s so clear how much heart and soul went into writing it. I love how the author uses nature and weather to create tension — so many subtle things that just gave me the chills. The land remembers and knows something’s wrong and the reader can’t ignore it.
On Anneliese, Deirdre, and Gracelynn: you can try and take their power away but it will haunt you. Their stories include such important and still relevant to today themes of bodily autonomy and choice.
If you’re a reader that likes hope at the end of your horror novels, there’s plenty of it here, which was so refreshing to see. This book is about three generations of women overcoming an evil that stalks their bloodline, so while there’s a smattering of romance and heartache throughout their stories, this book is not romance, AND YET, (SPOILERS:) I was pleasantly surprised and delighted to see how many of the characters still get happily ever afters anyways <3