A review by kniznypredator
The Witch Club by Felicity Green

adventurous dark mysterious sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

2.75

 

Felicity Green - The Witch Club (Scottish Witches Mysteries #1)

I received an ARC ebook for free from BookSirens, and I am leaving this review voluntarily.

Dessie - young owner of Bed and Breakfast accommodation in the Scottish Highlands, who still, after ten years, waits for her husband to come back to her, after he went missing in the same neighborhood.

Andie - Dessies employee, who has a special mission and tries to protect Dessie while she’s not allowed to expose her intentions.

There are weird things happening around the village and everybody seems to be connected to Dessie's husband disappearing.

At first, I couldn’t get past the first chapters. The author's writing style seemed too easy and chaotic. But something kept me reading. The cover suggests this book would be similar to ‘Sabrina the Teenage Witch’. I expected a cozy mystery (fun, cocoa, tea…). I’ve got thriller, suspense and dark secrets instead.

The witches are not that prevalent in the first book. There is more mystery around them, and we aren’t even sure what's going on with them. All the loose ends tie towards the end, and you see the true character of everybody. There’s only one thing missing. And that's an explanation of how the witches work and chant. I hope we get more of their coven and witchcraft detectives in the next books.