I didn’t love this unfortunately. My experience with Schwab is a little hit and miss. I loved addie larue but was gallant was a little mid for me (I liked the first half ending was too rushed). With the near witch I feel a little like I felt about gallant, not great and not bad. The story is fine enough but it took me a very long time to get into it and I don’t feel like I cared about any of the characters. The book I got was with the short story “the Ashen boy” which I cared even less for. All in all it was an alright filler read, but now I feel nervous because I invested in all her darker shades of magic books after loving addie larue so much 😂