Black Hat, White Witch
Hailey Edwards
Overall: 4/5
Plot and themes: 4/5
Characters: 4/5
Writing style: 5/5
Attention-grabbing: 5/5
Black Hat, White Witch is the first book in the Black Hat Bureau really following Rue Hollis on her quest to goodness. She was a Black Witch for the first 60 years of her life, consuming hearts to gain more power. But circumstances have motivated her to convert to being a White Witch, weaker and reliant on their innate magic. When a copycat of the same killer that showed her true evil in the world pops up, it motivates her to come out of hiding and go back to the bureau she swore she'd never work for again.
This book is really fun. I have a niche love for supernatural detective agencies but I think this one is particularly unique in its composition. It's not a bunch of people with strong moral compasses who live for vanquishing evil, it's a bunch of pretty morally corrupt people trying to root out those who are the most morally corrupt. Rue has participated in her fair share of moral corruption and wants to break away from it all, but the ties that bind her are stronger than it first seems.
I liked it a lot aside from the way the plot kind of dropped a ton of super important things right at the end. With her relationship with Asa (that's a little weird and I'm hoping it'll be developed a lot more) and with her relationship with the bureau. It's not that it made it bad or anything it just made it confusing comparative to the flow through the rest of the book. Regardless of that, I'm looking forward to a sequel where we learn a lot more about the magical foundation of the universe along with more background on all the characters. It was way too short and brought too much to the table for it to cut off the way it did. If the next book was available now though I might not have seen it as a problem who knows.
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