Paula Brackston – Cannonball Read 17

Only mildly witchin’

The Winter Witch by Paula Brackston

October 24, 2021 by Wanderlustful Leave a Comment

I like a good witch/supernatural story every now and then, so pulled this one off my shelf (cbr13bingo shelfie!) Brackston’s novel centers on Cai, a Welsh drover, and his new wife Morgana. Being a drover requires a wife, to assure the townspeople that the drover will return with their money after talking the village flocks to the London markets. Accordingly, even though Cai is not yet entirely over the death of his beloved first wife, he proposes to and marries Morgana, a younger woman from […]

Which matters more, her past or her present?

The Witch's Daughter by Paula Brackston

May 25, 2021 by Mobius_Walker 3 Comments

Bess is a witch living in modern times. She also happens to be over 300 years old. She’s just moved into a new house and has caught the attention of a local girl named Tegan. As Bess and Tegan spend time together, Bess recounts tales of her life as a way of instructing Tegan in magic and witchcraft. The tales of Bess’ life are simultaneously cautionary ones about the dangers of powerful men and their relentless pursuit of what they perceive as theirs and about […]

And This is Where I Leave You…

Secrets of the Chocolate House by Paula Brackston

September 12, 2019 by Classic 1 Comment

Please note that I received this book via NetGalley. This did not affect my rating or review. This book will be released on October 22, 2019. I was hoping that this book could turn it around, but honestly I was just bored. You would think a book about time travel would be interesting, but it’s really not. I think Brackston is hoping to set up Xanthe so have an epic nemesis like in her “The Witch’s Daughter” series and I just cannot live through that […]

Not Enough Development of Main Character and Ending Was Disappointing

The Little Shop of Found Things by Paula Brackston

May 31, 2019 by Classic 2 Comments

Not too much to say here except that I have been reading Paula Brackston for years now and she’s either a hit or a miss I have found. This one just doesn’t rise up there to the other books of hers that I have read and loved (The Witch’s Daughter, The Silver Witch, and The Witches of the Blue Well). She chooses to do contemporary in this one, however, with the time travel aspect it definitely appears that Brackston was more focused on the historical […]

This head witch needed more training

October 10, 2017 by Mikki Blu Leave a Comment

Set in high society Edwardian England, The Midnight Witch is the story of a young witch who faces the choice between love and loyalty to her coven… This blurb makes the book sound a lot more fascinating than it really was, in my opinion. Lady Lilith Radnor, daughter of the Duke of Radnor, is as young and beautiful as one expects the heroine to be; she’s also a witch. She is engaged to a fabulously handsome young man, who is also a witch. Her father […]

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