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The Dawn of the Witch, Volume 1 by Tatsuwo, Kakeru Kobashiri
3.0

*DISCLAIMER* I received a free copy of this book for review purposes. I only accept books I think I’d like because life is too short to waste on bad books. That said if I don’t like a book, I’ll say so, free or not. With that out of the way, onto the review:

Mixed feelings about this one. It starts out incredibly slow and boring, which is very bad for a fantasy book especially. You need to pull a reader into this world that they don’t live in and grab them from the start and this book fails at that.

On the other hand if you can force yourself to make it through the first half, the second half is actually a really decent concept, pitting an extremist church against witches. This volume is focused on witch hunt that separates some magic students from each other. Saying much more would include spoilers, so I’ll leave it at that. I will say we learn that not every character is what they initially seem to be.

I wouldn’t go out of my way to read on, but if the next volume fell into my lap, I would likely give it a chance.

Merged review:

*DISCLAIMER* I received a free copy of this book for review purposes. I only accept books I think I’d like because life is too short to waste on bad books. That said if I don’t like a book, I’ll say so, free or not. With that out of the way, onto the review:

Mixed feelings about this one. It starts out incredibly slow and boring, which is very bad for a fantasy book especially. You need to pull a reader into this world that they don’t live in and grab them from the start and this book fails at that.

On the other hand if you can force yourself to make it through the first half, the second half is actually a really decent concept, pitting an extremist church against witches. This volume is focused on witch hunt that separates some magic students from each other. Saying much more would include spoilers, so I’ll leave it at that. I will say we learn that not every character is what they initially seem to be.

I wouldn’t go out of my way to read on, but if the next volume fell into my lap, I would likely give it a chance.

Merged review:

*DISCLAIMER* I received a free copy of this book for review purposes. I only accept books I think I’d like because life is too short to waste on bad books. That said if I don’t like a book, I’ll say so, free or not. With that out of the way, onto the review:

Mixed feelings about this one. It starts out incredibly slow and boring, which is very bad for a fantasy book especially. You need to pull a reader into this world that they don’t live in and grab them from the start and this book fails at that.

On the other hand if you can force yourself to make it through the first half, the second half is actually a really decent concept, pitting an extremist church against witches. This volume is focused on witch hunt that separates some magic students from each other. Saying much more would include spoilers, so I’ll leave it at that. I will say we learn that not every character is what they initially seem to be.

I wouldn’t go out of my way to read on, but if the next volume fell into my lap, I would likely give it a chance