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A review by inkhearted
The Glass Witch by Lindsay Puckett
3.0
I really wanted to like this one but it just never hooked me, unfortunately. Addie is upset about being forced to spend the summer away from her mom and at her grandmother''s. It's hard to get super excited about staying in a small town obsessed with cranberries when you hate them. It's even harder to suddenly be in such close proximity to her estranged family members who are full of magic when she is...not. Addie just wants to be *seen*. Unfortunately, triggering a centuries old curse and endangering her whole family was very much *not* on her summer to-do list.
Mostly I feel like books should be shorter than they are, but with this one it felt a bit rushed. There are all sorts of comucated family dynamics that don't get satisfyingly dealt with, particularly the oddly distant relationship between Addie and her mother. You basically end up resentful at all the adults in this book who pretty much bitch everything. A bright point was Addie's friend Fatima who sparkles as a character, but I needed more emotional connective tissue with the other characters.
Mostly I feel like books should be shorter than they are, but with this one it felt a bit rushed. There are all sorts of comucated family dynamics that don't get satisfyingly dealt with, particularly the oddly distant relationship between Addie and her mother. You basically end up resentful at all the adults in this book who pretty much bitch everything. A bright point was Addie's friend Fatima who sparkles as a character, but I needed more emotional connective tissue with the other characters.