A review by sophs_mood_reading
The Witch Collector by Charissa Weaks

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.0

Raina Bloodgood has a fatal score to settle with the witch collector and frost king and is hell bent on cashing in her revenge this collection day. However when another threat comes and destroys her world she must put aside her vengeance plans and now work with her enemies (including Alexis, who she can’t stop lusting over)to save, well, the entire kingdom/world it seems. 

Welcome to a multiple point of view, fantasy, magical, ancient god, enemies to lovers, not so slow burn,  romance, adventure. 

The story doesn’t take the traditional route of a fantasy adventure with the whole book occurring “on the way to the castle” which made for a nice change as it wasn’t a typical adventure pattern. We had some interesting characters (not a lot of diversity) and elemental magic which made for a easy to understand magical system. 

This book had a lot of promise but I found I got lost in some of the world building and trying to get my head around all the different gods and their stories. I found some aspects predictable and wish we had some more information such as Raina’s sisters story for the past 8 years. 

I did find the inclusion of Raina’s use of sign language to communicate and cast spells was interesting. Although would have liked more explanation on why or how or if it had anything to do with her powers. 

Also we end on a cliffhanger where the book is more the start of a journey of clearly a series of books and there isn’t really any resolution which is a pet peeve of mine but I need to get over that I suppose.