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roklobster 's review for:
The Witch's Daughter
by Paula Brackston
A faster read than I was anticipating. The story telling was interesting and well done. You get a good sense of the main character and her problem. You don't get a terribly good sense of the girl she befriends in the "now" part of the book, other than she's young and a girl. But since it's not integral to the story that she be a strong character, it's probably fine that she wasn't.
The time period illustration was done quite well, but some of the foreshadowing, and what I think the author thought would be plot twists, were easy to spot and track. None the less the writing was good and the story moved at a good pace.
The general vagueness about her being a witch is interesting. The author did her homework, but then declined to delve heavily into what made Bess and witch. She did "magic", and that was about all. There are one or two instances of Bess showing off her stuff, but this isn't Harry Potter and Hogwarts and magic for everything. For the most part it was a story about a woman facing her demons and her past. That there was magic in the mix just sort of gave it a good flavor.
The time period illustration was done quite well, but some of the foreshadowing, and what I think the author thought would be plot twists, were easy to spot and track. None the less the writing was good and the story moved at a good pace.
The general vagueness about her being a witch is interesting. The author did her homework, but then declined to delve heavily into what made Bess and witch. She did "magic", and that was about all. There are one or two instances of Bess showing off her stuff, but this isn't Harry Potter and Hogwarts and magic for everything. For the most part it was a story about a woman facing her demons and her past. That there was magic in the mix just sort of gave it a good flavor.