Witches Steeped in Gold
Ratings7
Average rating2.9
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Ratings7
Average rating2.9
This Jamaican-inspired fantasy debut about two enemy witches who must enter into a deadly alliance to take down a common enemy has the twisted cat-and-mouse of Killing Eve with the richly imagined fantasy world of Furyborn and Ember in the Ashes. Divided by their order. United by their vengeance. Iraya has spent her life in a cell, but every day brings her closer to freedom—and vengeance. Jazmyne is the Queen’s daughter, but unlike her sister before her, she has no intention of dying to strengthen her mother’s power. Sworn enemies, these two witches enter a precarious alliance to take down a mutual threat. But power is intoxicating, revenge is a bloody pursuit, and nothing is certain—except the lengths they will go to win this game. "A thundering waterfall of magic, vengeance and intrigue." —Samantha Shannon, New York Times & Sunday Times bestselling author of The Priory of the Orange Tree and The Bone Season.
Series
1 primary bookWitches Steeped in Gold is a 1-book series first released in 2021 with contributions by Ciannon Smart.
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I really wanted to love this book. Samantha Shannon raved about it and I typically like her recommendations however I couldn't get into this book. The characters were flat and you are shoved into this new world with limited background. I'm a huge fan of extensive world-building and I do not mind info-dumping to get there either. This book had basically no world-building and we are left scrambling trying to figure out what is going on and who the characters all.
And this is a weird thing but I'm all about strong female characters but I got over 100 pages into this book and there were basically no male characters in this book. Yes, they mention fathers but I do not find it realistic at all to completely remove male characters from your book.
Hopefully, others are able to get into and love this book, but I was not one of them.
Caribbean Witches. Sound so cool
I've never wished I'd DNFed a book so bad.
This was a slog to get through. I struggled with the Prose, to understanding the characters and apart from the few times where Ira made herself a badass and snarky, both the Main Characters were the same, mediocre, the only one I almost liked was Ira, and then it was in small bursts
The conflict was predictable, sometimes forced. Jazmynne was boring, stupid. Ira slightly better with more of a drive. The side characters were Meh.
The hint of the love interest came about with a drastic change to one of the main characters and I hated it.
The choices that were made were foolish, at times forced for plot reasons. And the Plot... predictable, boring. If you like a long slow burn plot, with an average climax, then this book is for you. But it wasn't for me. This book isn't driven, not a lot happens, it doesn't have a lot of character and while the world was interesting, it failed to engage me.
What I do wish is that the worldbuilding has more of an explanation. I was confused for most of the time until I ignored the world entirely, by far this books strongest point.
0.5 stars.
