A review by bluefairybug
Witch Wife by Lumen Reese

adventurous emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

5.0

This book is so good. Sooooo good. Just occasionally a book comes along that I love so much I don't know where to start with the review! It's one of those books where I simultaneously could not stop reading as i had to know how it ended, but also didn't want it to end. Luckily for me, this is only part 1 of the trilogy, so there'll be more to come. 

I loved Irene, she reminded me in a way of Joan of Arc, a woman on the battlefield who was later accused of witchcraft. I also loved how intertwined Irene and Jasper's lives were. Despite being on opposite sides of a way they save each other, more than once. If platonic soulmates are a thing, then that's what they are.  

I found all the characters to be really well written, whole and believable.  Those that needed a backstory had one.  And those that didn't need one existed just as realistically in my mind.  

This book made me laugh at times, and at others I way on the edge of my seat with tension. I won't give spoilers, but there was one part, near the end, which was genuinely terrifying. 

Lumen hasbuilt a solid and fantastic world where there's not only, what appears to be, another American war of independence, with all the dangers that brings, but also ice creatures who pluck off humans as fast as they can manage. I'd love to know more about them in future.  

Overall this was an incredible read and I'm going to wait as patiently as I can for book 2.