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Old 06-03-2021, 10:32 PM   #30063
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The Last Balfour by Cait Duggan. A YA fantasy about witches in sixteenth-century Scotland. This was a bit of a mixed bag. I found the first-person-present-tense annoying and inappropriate, but the story develops into a neat sort of fable or fairy tale which I started to enjoy, but then it lost that feel and became something more explicitly violent. The plot turned out to be less predictable than I first feared and it kept me entertained to the finish. And this book does finish up well enough, although it has obviously set up ready for a series of adventures (but no more have been released yet). The setting added an extra flavour to the text that I thought worked well. Somewhere around 3/5 I think.
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