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A review by halligomez
Willow Born by Shanna Miles
4.0
If you love stories about witches, magic, and the past and present clashing, this is the one for you! I was hooked from the beginning when we learned Collette died and came back to life. Her journey to understand what happened to her by using a school project to investigate her death, as well as watching her navigate high school, friends, and her crush was interesting.
Miles’s strengths are clearly in writing and descriptions, such as her use of color and movement to describe the emotions Collette sees in others. For example: “a milky-green anxiety is buzzing around him.” In addition, each character was fully developed with strengths, weaknesses, motivations, and unique voices. And she did not disappoint when it came to secondary characters.
Although I loved each piece of this story – the Willows, Collette coming back and learning how to fight the demon, and the murder mysteries – there may have been too many pieces for one story. Possibly because of word count limitations, the more pieces to the plot, the less they can be developed. Although they did tie together at the end, some explanations were breezed over when they warranted something deeper.
Miles’s strengths are clearly in writing and descriptions, such as her use of color and movement to describe the emotions Collette sees in others. For example: “a milky-green anxiety is buzzing around him.” In addition, each character was fully developed with strengths, weaknesses, motivations, and unique voices. And she did not disappoint when it came to secondary characters.
Although I loved each piece of this story – the Willows, Collette coming back and learning how to fight the demon, and the murder mysteries – there may have been too many pieces for one story. Possibly because of word count limitations, the more pieces to the plot, the less they can be developed. Although they did tie together at the end, some explanations were breezed over when they warranted something deeper.