It was just an okay book. I wanted to adore it but some of the themes just repeated so often it was hard to concentrate on anything new.

This is a slow burn exploration of community and sisterhood and Norse witchcraft.

“You can’t cook mothers alive and not expect their daughters to make you pay.”

“They did it in the name of this god they fear so much. It’s like they invented Djevelen just so they could watch women burn.”

“No one is enough just on their own. Not even the god Odin was enough, so why should you be? We must lean on one another; we must rely on the gifts and sacrifices made by the ones we love. That’s how we will survive. This lesson is exactly what most people have forgotten.”

When I read the blurb for this I thought it sounded really interesting, I love a good witch story and the dark aspects sounded really interesting but it just didn't quite get there.

The writing itself was lovely, and the characters were really strong but not a lot really happened.

I read a review of a different book once that said it was 'all vibes no plot' and that's how I feel about The Witches At The End of The World.

Thanks to Netgalley and the publishers for an ARC to review.

Very character-driven, which is not a bad thing if the characters go through enough substantial development to mean anything, but these two do not. There is so much description and so little action that this story could be summed up in a couple chapters at most if all the excess fluff was cut out. The entire story is very predictable once you understand where the characters stand with their very basic motivations. This makes it frustrating to read through a slog of internal monologues to get to the point, which ultimately went almost nowhere. I had to keep reminding myself these girls are in their twenties and not in fact still children for how immature and one-sided their mindsets are the entire story, even when the novel itself points this out.

This was an interesting read, with two sisters who chose different paths at its heart. We get to see the story from alternating POV, switching between sisters. Everything is told in first person, and while I think just following each sister might've helped things moving a little better, I don't hate getting to know their inner thoughts as we go. I liked how we get to see the way their views differ, but at times the story felt like it moved a little slow. Overall, I loved the plot, and thought Iversen did a great job with the world building. I'd definitely read more by her!