I submitted the below review to the Barnes and Noble website yesterday. It went up without a hitch. Which surprised me after the couple of weeks I have been wrangling with them about the review of Pixie Noir that I have posted but that no one can see (at least my wife can’t see it when she looks it up, and I only see it after I try to post a new review and it tells me I already have one up). So enjoy the below:
Witchfinder is one of those books that you need to plan free time to read – or else you will find yourself neglecting the things you should be doing to see what happens in the next chapter.
Sarah Hoyt does a wonderful job of world-weaving – or in the case of this book, multi-verse weaving. There is an obvious complex and rich structure to the worlds where her story takes place, and yet you don’t lose the story by admiring the world.
The story itself has multiple strands. In other authors that gets to be a problem keeping track of exactly who everyone is. With Witchfinder, I found myself fascinated yet not lost. About a third of the way through the books I had finally met all the main characters, and events had thrown them apart on what seemed like a dozen divergent paths, never to come together again. And so I had to keep reading to see how events would bring them together again.
Let me just say that the ending managed to be both surprising and yet expected – and quite satisfying.
From my perspective Witchfinder has a niche all its own. It qualifies for the genres that it has been classified as, yet Hoyt always manages to go beyond genre in an enticing and addictive way.
At The Rainbow 