A review by mindy_m
The Witch Haven by Sasha Peyton Smith

3.0

The beginning was great. But then it slowed down when she got to Haxahaven. Only for it to be interesting again from the market until a certain ritual was done. From that point on, it was kind of a big nope for me. That's right. All of Act 3 was basically not great in my eyes. It was alright.

The author used a bad reasoning for why the ritual was different between the 2 characters. Bad as in untrue. Bad as in it absolutely didn't make it easier to accept when the witches do it. The two big AHH scenes with magic did not agree with the in-book reasoning. (The real reasoning why everything's different was a difference in intent, I'm sure.) And her control was only sort of gone? Or completely gone? Which was it? Why couldn't the teachers come out? They couldn't possibly be weaker than teenagers... So yeah that ending was a mess.

And I'm just going to throw this out there, but neither Finn nor Oliver are good for Frances.