Review by jillie - The Witch's Heart

Did not finish book. Stopped at 28%.

DNF @ 28%

Character driven, but written in such a detached way that there’s no connection to the characters or what they’re feeling.
The MC being head over heels in love, being irritated, feeling jealous, feeling scared, all elicit the same emotional reaction in the reader: none. It’s so flat!
You could change the names and location and it wouldn’t affect the story at all. A woman sits in her cave all day & is a mom who has a rogue husband. Woo.
Marriage is treated in such an odd way. I get it’s based off mythology, but she obviously cares that he has another wife & yet it’s all treated like it’s completely normal? Nah.
Is our MC a powerful, long lived witch or not? We’re told this but she never acts this way.

Anyway, this was not at all what I was expecting. Apparently it picks up in the 2nd half but I don’t care enough to continue.

6/8/23