The Near Witch
V.E. Schwab
2/5
In a small community in the middle of nowhere, outsiders are resented. Even some of the permanent members of the community are alienated and ostracized for the powers which they have been born with. When children start going missing from their beds, it is only natural that this tight-knit community would blame the mysterious new guy in town. Lexi has lived in Near all her life and knows firsthand how the stigmas can destroy families, so she sets herself to helping this boy and solving the mystery.
I've liked all of V.E. Schwab's other books but this one kind of fell flat for me. This was her debut novel so it's amazing to see how much she has grown as an author, and maybe this is just a completely different kind of story than the other things that I've read but it was just boring. It feels like it's trying to be a horror story but it's not scary and it's trying to be a romance but the romance is not relatable and insta-love. It didn't invest enough time in developing itself on either front and both things felt half-baked.
It was hard for me to get through. Maybe if you like more plot-oriented stories or like info-dump types of situations, you'd find this book more enjoyable it just really wasn't my favorite. That doesn't make me love V.E. Schwab any less though because debuts can be super tricky.
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