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A review by 10000bees
The Honey Witch by Sydney J. Shields
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.0
This is a book I should have DNF'd, but I decided to push through because I didn't have anything else checked out from libby, so here we are. I feel sad rating this book so low because I was excited for it. Witchy sapphic cottage core? It sounds soo good, but the truth is that I was simply bored. Everything felt so predictable and one dimensional and poorly balanced that it felt like slop. Sweet slop. Honey-esque slop, I suppose.
It wanted to be cozy, but wasn't cozy enough. It wanted to be romantic, but there wasn't any chemistry. It wanted to have a flawed main character, but her flaws (mostly being judgmental to other women) came and went so suddenly that her comments just felt out of pocket. It wanted to have an intense, heart-wrenching ending but it went from no plot to all plot and I couldn't care about it at the end because I didn't care about anything before it. It was just messy and incomplete and should have been edited more.
It wanted to be cozy, but wasn't cozy enough. It wanted to be romantic, but there wasn't any chemistry. It wanted to have a flawed main character, but her flaws (mostly being judgmental to other women) came and went so suddenly that her comments just felt out of pocket. It wanted to have an intense, heart-wrenching ending but it went from no plot to all plot and I couldn't care about it at the end because I didn't care about anything before it. It was just messy and incomplete and should have been edited more.