DNF'd on: September 25th, 2019
DNF'd on: Page 95 (34%)

I thought Retail Witches would be a fun book to take me into the spooky season. However, I struggled finding the motivation to pick it up everyday and decided to DNF it.

From what I could gather Retail Witches follows three young adults working in the Avalon Spellshop. This episodic story followed the daily lives of the staff and patrons of the shop in this small town.

Stylistically this book didn't jive with me. Goodrich overly described innocuous details too much for me to really get on with the flow of the story. Every time a character or setting was introduced the story would halt as Goodrich described every single detail about it. It was really hard to hold all this information in my head and parse what was important to remember and what wasn't.

The characters in this book were indistinct and lacked personality. While each of the three protagonists had specific traits, Goodrich wasn't very effective in conveying their personalities to the reader. None of them had a very distinct voice so even remembering things about them was difficult at times. The most memorable thing about them was how unmemorable they were.

This book didn't seem to have any plot for as far as I read. I had no idea where the story was going at the point where I put it down, and honestly I wasn't interested enough to find out. The book felt very episodic as we were following the day to day machinations of the Avalon Spellshop, but none of these stories were very compelling or charming.

Retail Witches was just a book too boring to continue reading. Every time I picked it up it put me to sleep, and I had no motivation to continue on with it.