I requested this book to read from netgalley as I'm a huge YA/magic/witches/Tudor freak - all of these things in one book? Score!

Unfortunately, all in all, the book fell a little short of my expectations.

The book is mainly about Meg, who's taught by her aunt to become a witch. The book being called "Witchstruck" I thought there was going to be a lot more magic, and there's really very little. Meg talks a lot about being proud to be a witch, but rarely performs any magic other than using the powers of her voice to convince people to do stuff.

Meg is a servant to Elizabeth, who's imprisoned by her sister, Queen Mary, aka Bloody Mary. I thought there'd be a lot more to that side of the story, considering Queen Mary regularly killed both Catholics and "witches" a like, but this doesn't come to play at all.

There's a small romance subplot between Meg and Alejandro - a young priest in training - if I had to rate just that part of the novel, I'd give it one star because the romance felt very fake, very forced, like an afterthought that was written into the novel.

I read and love YA - read a lot of YA - but the age on this felt more middle school than teens - so I was slightly disappointed there, but I take no "points" off the book for that, just one personal thought.

All in all, I'd rate this 3.5 stars if I could. Everything was GOOD just not quite what I was hoping for. I'm not sure if I'll read the rest of the series / more by this author.