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A review by hannah_reads_2020
A Witch in Time by Constance Sayers
1.0
This book had such promise. A girl cursed by her mother. Demons and blood curses. But what I got was a slightly pedophilloic love story that was doomed throughout the ages and some weak magic about the power of suggestion.
The story focuses the first 40% on Juliette, a 16 year old in provincial France. She is not a likeable character. She is whiney, even for a 16 year old. Her lover Marchant is a creepy middle aged man who preys on her naivety. When her mother find out she tries to curse the relationship but instead dooms them to be reincarnated forever and have their relationship.
Her other lives are almost as equally insufferable. I didn't really like any of her reincarnations and found they didn't have many redeeming qualities. Nora was the exception but she was also incredibly naive. Granted as we go through the reincarnations the "magic" gets stronger, but it felt like a sleepy romance novel rather than one of magic and the macabre.
The story focuses the first 40% on Juliette, a 16 year old in provincial France. She is not a likeable character. She is whiney, even for a 16 year old. Her lover Marchant is a creepy middle aged man who preys on her naivety. When her mother find out she tries to curse the relationship but instead dooms them to be reincarnated forever and have their relationship.
Her other lives are almost as equally insufferable. I didn't really like any of her reincarnations and found they didn't have many redeeming qualities. Nora was the exception but she was also incredibly naive. Granted as we go through the reincarnations the "magic" gets stronger, but it felt like a sleepy romance novel rather than one of magic and the macabre.