Date Of Review: March 13, 2025
Review Left On GoodReads: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7390022224
Review Left On StoryGraph: https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/2c8b5b86-1b83-49a1-bed1-b55e3b83d163
The Orphan Witch
Author: Paige Crutcher
Narrator: Saskia Maarleveld
Started: March 9, 2025
Finished: Marc 13, 2025
Genre: fantasy, paranormal
Length: 11 hours, 20 minutes
Part Of A Series: no
Type Of Book: audio
Goodreads Link: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/56269011-the-orphan-witch
Storygraph Link: https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/aec65540-6786-4c32-9785-7f625378a9bd
Review:
20% in the book is really good!
Book is finished & I cried at the end.
I was happy to find out this wasn't a smut filled book. It sure could have been - there where plenty of opportunities. It made me like this book all the more for not having smut.
Otherwise it was a typical story of not all the parts to a story being told and somehow it all works out. Despite the story being obvious in its direction, it kept me entertained. Mainly due to how Persephone was written. I just wanted to know how it would turn out for her & Dorian.
Goodreads Description:
A deeper magic. A stronger curse. A family lost...and found.
Persephone May has been alone her entire life. Abandoned as an infant and dragged through the foster care system, she wants nothing more than to belong somewhere. To someone. However, Persephone is as strange as she is lonely. Unexplainable things happen when she’s around—changes in weather, inanimate objects taking flight—and those who seek to bring her into their family quickly cast her out. To cope, she never gets attached, never makes friends. And she certainly never dates. Working odd jobs and always keeping her suitcases half-packed, Persephone is used to moving around, leaving one town for another when curiosity over her eccentric behavior inevitably draws unwanted attention.
After an accidental and very public display of power, Persephone knows it’s time to move on once again. It’s lucky, then, when she receives an email from the one friend she’s managed to keep, inviting her to the elusive Wile Isle. The timing couldn’t be more perfect. However, upon arrival, Persephone quickly discovers that Wile is no ordinary island. In fact, it just might hold the very things she’s been searching for her entire life.
Answers. Family. Home.
And some things she did not want. Like 100-year-old curses and an even older family feud. With the clock running out, love might be the magic that saves them all.