It’s strange to read a book about witches, where the main character is a witch, and to only ever see magic twice (one of those times being 90% through the book).

Witch Child is solidly in the historical genre, and only mildly in paranormal, so if you’re looking for a story about witches, this ain’t it.

The only reason someone would ever want to read the journal of a witch is if there was mention of witchcraft or some cool sorceries. Mary’s journal though, is mostly about her migration to America and settling in a Puritan settlement. I might’ve actually liked the book more if it was classified as historical fiction instead of historical paranormal.

I was kind of angry about this book though. You don’t get to use the format of a journal, but then include conversations and dialogue as if it were in the present. Were she writing a diary, she’d write them in past tense, at the very least. I found the structure of the novel confusing and unrealistic.

At least the writing itself wasn’t terrible... I did enjoy the tone of Witch Child and felt the speech patterns were authentic to the time. It’s probably the only thing that saved this book from a two star rating.