A review by casreads
The Change by Kirsten Miller

dark mysterious sad tense slow-paced

3.0

This book promised magic, mystery, and a feminist revenge fantasy, but really only delivered on the last one. The women had powers, but they were kind of vague. Nessa's ghost-seeing abilities were the most developed. Harriet was a caricature of a hedge witch, and Jo's powers were the least developed. She was strong and her hands got hot? Oook. There were ghosts, but they were just sort of there. There was a mystery, but it it wasn't investigated methodically with clues laid out - they just sort of stumbled across things. I did like how almost every woman in the book got a fleshed out backstory, and it was very cathartic to see all the disgusting men in their lives get what was coming to them. It was entertaining, but ultimately kind of a let down. I don't think the full potential of the premise was realized.
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