Witch: A Doyle Witch Cozy Mystery by Kirsten Weiss
My rating: 1 of 5 stars
I received this ARC from Red Coat Publishing and the author in exchange for an honest review.
A few months ago I read another of the author’s books called Deja Moo part of the A Perfectly Proper Paranormal Museum series and it turned out it wasn’t really my cup of tea. Naturally, I was a bit hesitant reading another of the author’s stories. Sadly, my intuition wasn’t wrong. Before I continue, I have to say that this is the first book in The Witches of Doyle series I have read.
The characters seemed overdrawn and even exaggerated. Each character had one personality trait and that was their hook, their only quality and that made for very one-dimensional characters and a very one-dimensional read.
The plot, a murder mystery in a small town that has magical influences, that draws from the previous books in this series could have been interesting, if only the characters were better developed.
I couldn’t enjoy the writing much at all. I felt it was too wordy in describing seemingly irrelevant details that ultimately turned against the author when she contradicts herself within the span of two pages; on the one page the narrator talks about a grey couch and on the next page it turned into a black sofa. That would definitely confuse the reader. With regards to the main character, who also acted as the narrator, I could not accept her being in her early thirties based on how she narrated. For instance, having a character or narrator say sentences such as “…like – hello, Business Owner!” or actually narrate the word “ugh”, which had its own line, felt juvenile and didn’t mesh with the overall idea the author attempted to bring across.
Overall, I am aware that most readers liked this story, but for me there were too many elements that just rubbed me the wrong way.
