Thank you to Netgalley and Boldwood Books for the chance to read this in exchange for my thoughts.

An unknown woman on the run. A mysterious man by the riverside. A fortuitous meeting in the night that provides a cover for both their secrets.

The premise of The Ravenswood Witch is full of spooky potential - the setting, the secrets, the suspicious villagers full of superstition. Witchcraft and the occult. If a classic cosy autumn spooky read is what you're after this October then this delivers in spades.

For me though, I wanted something a bit more original and it's a shame that this novel couldn't deliver the road less travelled with this starting point. What follows is a largely predictable plot, cardboard cut-out characters and nothing strikingly original to set it apart from other novels of this kind.

The dual POV was a nice touch and the little twist with these that I did not see coming was absolutely refreshing and jogged me out of the viewpoints I was harbouring about certain characters.


The writing was nice enough but the pacing was uneven - the first two thirds quite slow and all the action in the last third. It didn't need to be this long. The final reveal was anti-climatic at best and did nothing new or exciting and the tying up of loose ends was rushed and badly developed.

Overall it was fine, but I was hoping for something less run-of-the-mill.