Take a photo of a barcode or cover
A review by bookbarbie90
The Midnight Witch by Paula Brackston
2.0
2 stars, simply because I finished it. Only a book so awful I can't get through it gets one star. I listen to most of the book and thought the accent of the reader was dreadful, which didn't help my opinion of the book.
The Midnight Witch is told from the perspective of three different characters, Lilith (the heroine), Bram (the artist), and Nicholas Strickland (the bad guy). This was alarming to me at first because I was listening to it as an audio book and there was no way to tell when the characters switched. I was halfway through listening to Strickland's first inner monologue before I realized the pov had changed. Through out the entire book I would find myself going back to the beginning of a paragraph to confirm who was speaking.
This book takes place in the early 1900's and not being a historian, I think the author did a good job with the period of time and the language. The first 3/4 of the book takes place before World War One, the book then takes a jarring leap ahead 3 years to during the war for a couple chapters, then it jumps to after the war. There is nothing smooth about the transitions of time and I'm left feeling like I must have missed a page. Just like with the change in character view, there are no subtleties to indicate anything has changed.
Several times I was found myself getting excited to see that I was reaching the end of the novel simply because I wanted to move on to my next book. I don't feel like there was anything climactic or fulfilling about this book and the ending only left me glad that it was over.
The Midnight Witch is told from the perspective of three different characters, Lilith (the heroine), Bram (the artist), and Nicholas Strickland (the bad guy). This was alarming to me at first because I was listening to it as an audio book and there was no way to tell when the characters switched. I was halfway through listening to Strickland's first inner monologue before I realized the pov had changed. Through out the entire book I would find myself going back to the beginning of a paragraph to confirm who was speaking.
This book takes place in the early 1900's and not being a historian, I think the author did a good job with the period of time and the language. The first 3/4 of the book takes place before World War One, the book then takes a jarring leap ahead 3 years to during the war for a couple chapters, then it jumps to after the war. There is nothing smooth about the transitions of time and I'm left feeling like I must have missed a page. Just like with the change in character view, there are no subtleties to indicate anything has changed.
Several times I was found myself getting excited to see that I was reaching the end of the novel simply because I wanted to move on to my next book. I don't feel like there was anything climactic or fulfilling about this book and the ending only left me glad that it was over.