For a summary that promises lots of awesome action and a cover that gorgeous, Night Witches was a let down.

It has all the tired cliches of a dystopian romance, and none of the interesting aspects were strong enough to overcome that. There was a lot of time spent on the more awesome parts - the night bombing badassery - but that was overshadowed by Rain's naivety and confusion about how she was changing. If I had to see "witches don't exist!" one more time, I was going to punch someone. (And seeing as how the only person close enough was my sleeping boyfriend, that would have been bad.)

The dystopia is boring. It's that same old "don't be unique, everyone fall in line" with science being king and any Old World superstitions are what get you taken away and killed by the government.

The romance here is lukewarm at best. I'm still not sure just how the pair fell in love, and they rarely do anything besides look at each other with fuzzy feelings. Also, I got the impression that Rain was maybe twelve-ish, and if Reek is a teen old enough to lose his night vision (that's a thing), then he's probably what, fifteen? Sixteen? Yeah, not an age gap that is appealing. At all.

Then there's climax. Like the author remembered there should be some action and some kind of resolution, but didn't know what to do, so a deus ex machina was thrown in to wrap things up and tada!

No, thank you.

The more I write of this review, the more I realized this book is more of a two star book, not a 2.5 rounded up. What a waste of a fantastic cover.