Avarla reviewed The winter witch by Paula Brackston
Review of 'The winter witch' on 'Goodreads'
4 stars
Morgana is married to a young widower in need of a wife. He doesn't know she's a witch, and she won't admit it to herself. As they try and save his farm, which is financially unstable, they fall in love with each other, but an opposing power tries to take their farm from them with every means imaginable (e.g. witchcraft).
The overall story is a save and sound historical romance, with the added mystery/witchcraft bit, which I quite liked. Still it was an excruciating read at times, where I was mentally screaming at the protagonists to just DO SOMETHING. Especially Morgana seemed very passive a lot of times, which made the pacing of the novel rather tedious. "There's a supernatural cold coming from my husband's room where his first wife died? Oh yeah, let's ignore this for a while longer."
Morgana is married to a young widower in need of a wife. He doesn't know she's a witch, and she won't admit it to herself. As they try and save his farm, which is financially unstable, they fall in love with each other, but an opposing power tries to take their farm from them with every means imaginable (e.g. witchcraft).
The overall story is a save and sound historical romance, with the added mystery/witchcraft bit, which I quite liked. Still it was an excruciating read at times, where I was mentally screaming at the protagonists to just DO SOMETHING. Especially Morgana seemed very passive a lot of times, which made the pacing of the novel rather tedious. "There's a supernatural cold coming from my husband's room where his first wife died? Oh yeah, let's ignore this for a while longer."
