Book: The Witchbeast
Author: Samantha Eklund
Genre: Fantasy
Rating: 2.5 stars
Synopsis (Goodreads)
For nineteen years I thought I was a human orphan in a world of magical elitists—until I was shot in the head and didn’t die.
Leaving behind my miserable life of tempting men as an escort and then robbing them blind, I find myself fighting to survive in a whirlwind world of magic and deceit as I learn the answers to questions I had never wanted to ask.
On the run with my best friend, a handsome mysterious stranger, and his best friend, it seems like the more I find out about myself, the less I want to know. In fact, I think I liked it better when I thought I was a nobody.
Whatever we’ve awoken in me is dark and bloodthirsty, and the more we learn about it and its nefarious history, the more I wonder if I’ll ever be normal again.
My Review:
Thank you Netgalley for sending me an eARC of this book in exchange for an honest review.
The Witchbeast (Awakening) is the first book of The Witchbeast series. As the name suggests, the book follows the story of Silvana, and how she comes to know about some unexpected, shocking and dangerous information about her existence. She is 19, and all her life she thought that she was an ordinary human. Actually the world not only consists of humans, but also different other species of mages, clerics, witches and supernatural. They’ve all learned to co-exist with the help of a very complicated government system which was unfortunately not thoroughly explained in the book. Silvana comes to know that she is actually a brutal, dangerous and illegal kinda creature who was actually created by an outlawed process. So, now she is on run with her best friend Blakely, Armani, and Venison.
This book would have been great, if it was not overly focused on one character only. It felt like a one man show (or one woman show) because all the author seemed to care about was Silvana. The story has a lot of potential, but only if other side characters, and the whole context was thoroughly covered in the book. The romance between Silvana and Armani was extremely rushed, not fully explored. I also felt like there were a number of plot holes, and incomplete sub-plots that were never completed. The only good thing about this book was that it was fast paced, and can be finished in one sitting. Wouldn’t recommend!
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