Sarah Henning
Published July 31st 2018
I picked this book up on scribd mistaking it for 'To Kill A Kingdom', luckily I knew very little about either of those books so it wasn't disappointed by the different plot line to what I expected; instead I just presumed that I had got the wrong idea about what 'To Kill a Kingdom' was about. I was around 25% of the way through before realising that I was in fact reading a different book and had never heard of 'Sea Witch'.
Fortunately I really enjoyed this book. I rooted for every romance in the book, I had no idea where the plot was going to go (possibly because i had expected a completely different book). I loved the writing style which moved the plot along so quickly yet made sure all the characters where still developed thoroughly.
In 2019, I realised fantasy really wasn't my genre, after reading many of the years most hyped fantasy books and finding them quite average. However I do enjoy the occasional urban fantasy and fairytale retelling and for me this was the perfect fantasy novel. This was the first book I completed for my OWLS and it gave me my history of magic OWL. I knew this was going to be the first one i completed because it was the only audiobook I had. So i started it at midnight April 1st and had to force myself to go to sleep and not finish the book and stay up till like 6am.
As you can tell from my glowing review this was a 5 star read for me. There was nothing wrong with this book. There is a sequel to this book but i don't think i will read it because this was such an amazing stand alone and many of the reviews for the sequel say it is not as good. This book isn't a new favourite and I don't think it is a masterpiece but I would genuinely recommend this for everyone even those who aren't big fantasy lovers.
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