The Lost Witch

 

The Lost Witch 

Paige Crutcher

Publication Date: December 27, 2022 by St. Martin's Griffin

Genre: Fantasy

Rating: 3 🍷🍷🍷

Summary: 1922. Brigid Heron is a powerful witch and healer in the seemingly lost, but charming small town of Evermore on a forgotten isle in Ireland. However, there is one thing that she longs for above all else: a child of her own. She is even willing to be seduced by the mysterious Luc Knightly, head of the Knightly coven, whose pull is potent and impossible to resist. When their child is born and falls ill, Brigid will risk anything to save her daughter–even tap into the forbidden magic of the Lough of Brionglóid. But when the wild magic takes her daughter from her, Brigid is swept away as well.

2022. Evermore is under siege. The witches of Knight have been using their chaos magic to widen the rift between the island and the Otherworld. Creatures from folklore prey on the villagers, consuming their very humanity.

Brigid awakens in this world with no memory of how she traveled into the future, but she learns that she helped unleash this curse on Evermore. To seal the lough and stop the witches of Knight, she must work with her magical descendants, Ophelia and Finola. But the knowledge she seeks lies with Luc Knightly himself—mysterious, handsome, and powerful. To save Evermore, Brigid may have to lose everything once again.

My thoughts: This was a cute good versus evil book. As indicated by the synopsis it had a dual timeline perspective but doesn't go back and forth with any consistency. I found the pace of the book to be a tic off. One page it was slogging along and the next there was too much happening to keep track of. The love affair with Luc was an interesting romantic element. I felt there needed to be way more unraveling of the memory loss aspect of the story. Ophelia and Finola could have used some more development. It was almost like the author couldn't decide if the town in the modern timeline was a realistic town or one set within the realms of fantasy. There were many ritual aspects of witchcraft incorporated within the plot. Overall it was enjoyable. 

I received a copy of this title via NetGalley.