The Witch's Kind

Title: The Witch's Kind

Author: Louisa Morgan

Publisher: 3.19.22

Release Date: Redhook

Publisher’s Summary 

From the author of A Secret History of Witches comes an absorbing tale of love, sacrifice, family ties, and magic, set in the Pacific Northwest in the aftermath of World War II.

Barrie Anne Blythe and her aunt Charlotte have always known that the other residents of their small coastal community find them peculiar -- two women living alone on the outskirts of town. It is the price of concealing their strange and dangerous family secret.

But two events threaten to upend their lives forever. The first is the arrival of a mysterious abandoned baby with a hint of power like their own. The second is the sudden reappearance of Barrie Anne's long-lost husband -- who is not quite the man she thought she married.

Together, Barrie Anne and Charlotte must decide how far they are willing to go to protect themselves -- and the child they think of as their own -- from suspicious neighbors, the government, and even their own family...

My Review

First of all, I was expecting a continuation of the family storyline presented in A Secret History of Witches. I assumed this was the second book of a series but it is not. Once I got over that disappointment, I did enjoy the story but I'm not sure I would have read this if I would have more thoroughly read the summary because I am just soooo over WWII historical fiction. Morgan's writing style is soothing--like a grown-up bedtime story and overall I liked the book but didn't love it. A first chapter excerpt of Morgan's next book was included at the end of this novel and I think I will like the storyline in that one better than this one.