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The Witch Hunter by Virginia Boecker
3.0

Entertaining enough, but it had some problems. Other than predictability and a quality I can only describe as tropiness (there's a prophecy! and the only one who can fill it is our MC! for Reasons!), the writing was fairly good. The characters could be somewhat annoying-- I think their cluelessness and cliquishness were meant to be charming, but preserve me from the protagonist thinking to herself for the 584th time that the love interest despises her, and preserve me extra from the girl in a 1500s England analogue who wears midriff-bearing tops and rolls her eyes about how annoying her dark scary boyfriend is. Sigh. Additionally, in what I assume to be a move toward encouraging readers to continue on in the series, the ending is very unsatisfying. I thought this book was fun, but I doubt I'll move on in the series.