Goodmorning everyone.
I’m here today to talk to you about a book whose expectations were high for me, the plot seemed pretty engaging, and in the end it turned out to be a big disappointment. Monotonous, boring, with a slow narrative, with meaningless scenes, characters that appear from nothing without past, present, or future.
The book in question is The Witch’s Kiss, which I had requested on Edelweiss + attracted by the beautiful cover and the plot.
The book written by Katharine and Elizabeth Corr should be a sort of retelling of the Sleeping Beauty, but the protagonist is a witch who has stopped practicing magic because of abusing it, and has the task of breaking a curse hanging on her, and if she does not, she will die.
I cannot really tell you much about this book, the plot, because at the beginning it was all confusing and going on was all monotonous. If you follow me on Goodreads you may have seen all the updates I posted during reading, all my comments on what I read.
Technically at the beginning of the book there are two types of chapters. Those who talk about the present events, and those who talk about past events. On the first eight chapters I read, 5 were in the past and only 3 in the present, and that made me confuse even more, because the chapters were too long, and instead of making me understand what was happening, they filled me with information useless for most of the time.
Then, as soon as I think I’ve started to understand something more about the story, Jack comes in, who should be one of the two bad guys in the story, who practically lives in a lake. And what happens for several and many chapters is that Marry, the protagonist, together with her brother Leo go to Jack every day, talk a little, and he goes back into the lake, and continues for quite a while.
But the most absurd thing is that she declares in love with him since the first time she saw him, and when he kisses her one day, the only kiss between the two of the whole book, she dreams him literally every night . And in dreams they kiss first, then either he kills her or she kills him in the most disparate ways possible.
And finally, after reading 63% of the book, I understood who Alex was. A guy whose name was often said by the protagonist without ever revealing anything to him, a name that appear many times while telling the reader who this person is, and when she finally tells who he is – an old schoolmate to whom she has done something bad with her magic – that will be the last time we hear about him. He lives and dies in two lines.
And then, finally happy to have arrived at the end of the book, Jack and the real bad guy in the story, a 1000-year-old wizard, die. Merry and Leo leave poor Jack’s body on the lake and leave. The last chapter, long only two pages, is titled “Three weeks later”, and the book ends so. I don’t even imagine what the two sequel will be about, but right now I’m not planning to read them, I really don’t think I’ll ever read them.
This was a review little different than usual, but I hope you liked the same.
I’m sorry to give such a low rating to a book, I never gave less than a 3-star score, but it’s the toughest truth, for me this book does not deserve more.
To the next read,
Miriam.
