Really excellently written historical fiction blended with some good magical realism. The sections that take part in medieval Orkney are much more compelling than the sections in modern day.

As a nurse who’s worked with burn patients before, I would also give some props to the way the author handled the segments in the hospital. While she never got super detailed in her medical segments, she also gave enough details that were correct to seem well researched.

The thing that kept me from fully buying in to this as a 5/5 book was the ‘nyx’ things. It felt a little bit like the two plots being shoehorned together and that there may have been a more elegant solution to unite them.

Definitely a good one for any one who has a fascination in the witch trial cannon and wants to read something that diverges from the New England stories.