The WitchSlayer

The dialogue was unrealistically formal and I found the writing to be a little juvenile, it was hard to immerse myself when that was all I could focus on. There was also a moment when Amalia said, “women are often petty and stupid” and that really rubbed the wrong way. Nothing I hate more than a FMC with internalised misogyny.

Rurik's feelings towards his own son was another thing for me, in the epilogue he spoke about how he loved him but could barely tolerate him and “he often wanted to throw him across the room for trying to be more dominant than him.” He also said that he didn't find his own son cute because he is a male. I just found that to be a little weird and off putting.

One thing I did really like was the action, the book starts out relatively slow but the action was fast paced and exciting, I enjoyed it. I do think the story was a just a tad long and could've been 100 pages shorter, but I did appreciate the slow burn.