futchsnail 's review for:

The Honey Witch by Sydney J. Shields
DID NOT FINISH: 10%

I'm sorry but this is just not good 😬😬 the magic reveal straight out of halloweentown but halloweentown did it better 😭😭 & then we skip actually seeing the ritual to unlock her magic???? That was when I knew for sure I had to dnf, seeing the book leave things off-page that would be important for the reader to see. It honestly felt unedited/barely edited to me, and that was just in the first section I read, which is often gone over the most before querying/submission.... It sucks because I really wanted to love this, it's cozy sapphic fantasy like??? But it simply was not up to the standard of quality I look for in a traditionally published book. The fact this was published by an imprint of one of the big five... is2g if you bitches don't hire more editors!!!!!