The premise was very cool: The evil witch eats people to make herself immortal, Hansel and Gretel are the children abandoned when the witch starts eating their mother. The introduction was frightening and exciting.

But then it all went downhill, steadily worse every page, until the ending was nearly unreadable.

The characterizations were nonexistent, the plot was stagnant, the violence was too gross to be enjoyable and too frequent to be scary, the pacing was impossibly slow. This book needed an editor to cut it down to 150 pages and it would have been a fun Halloween read.