A review by shanbear16
Darkwitch Rising by Sara Douglass

3.0

If I had to give this review a title it would be "quiescent". OMG does Sara Douglass use that word about 20 times. I counted it 3 times on one page at one point! More gratuitous sex scenes (especially in the beginning with Charles and Eaving's Sisters) and a lot more violence. This book, I feel, really kind of lost the plot. It gets a lot more magical - which is fine, but it's the characters that really let me down. I know Douglass's point was to show how much they are growing and changing; it seems like everyone ends up getting a Supernatural role to play. But I feel like she took too long to get there, and I'm still left confused about where this story is going. For two books we're told one thing and now suddenly everything is changing (some of it for the worse IMO). I think this series worked better when it felt almost like an alternative history, but with enough realism in it to feel like we're reading about the real London.