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The Witch's Daughter

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My name is Elizabeth Anne Hawksmith, and my age is three hundred and eighty-four years. Each new settlement asks for a new journal, and so this Book of Shadows begins…

In the spring of 1628, the Witchfinder of Wessex finds himself a true Witch. As Bess Hawksmith watches her mother swing from the Hanging Tree she knows that only one man can save her from the same fate at the...more

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Published January 18th 2011 by Thomas Dunne Books (first published December 1st 2008)

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Nov 27, 2011 Farfished9 rated it 3 of 5 stars

I liked this book. I think it was well written and it moved along at a comfortable pace….like watching a movie that isn’t too slow or too fast. It wasn’t trying to be more than it seemed like it was meant to be…a feel good and entertaining book….not always sunny and bright…not always gloomy and dark…pleasantly imaginative and vividly told.

These kinda books are underrated…I’m not saying they should be overrated either—but there is something very respectable about an author knowing how to tell the...more I liked this book. I think it was well written and it moved along at a comfortable pace….like watching a movie that isn’t too slow or too fast. It wasn’t trying to be more than it seemed like it was meant to be…a feel good and entertaining book….not always sunny and bright…not always gloomy and dark…pleasantly imaginative and vividly told.

These kinda books are underrated…I’m not saying they should be overrated either—but there is something very respectable about an author knowing how to tell their story with balance and not a hint of ego. If you’re the kinda reader (be brutally honest with yourself—come oooon) that is teeming with ego yourself—don’t bother with this book—haha. You’ll no doubt find it droll and predictable…and you’ll no doubt have it all figured out from the get go. Surely the lurking inferiority complex murmuring in your ear will whisper—“WE could write a better book!” My advice to such readers is to do with out this book and to write your own…then you won’t be able to complain that you’re too smart for it because let’s face it—no one is smarter than you! =))

I never felt like the author was trying to impress me or convince me of anything…I didn’t feel like I was asked to take on any certain feelings or pressured into being moved along with how certain aspects of the story were presented. I felt like I was simply being told a story and asked only to listen—if I wanted to. I don’t like going into reading a book with the attitude of feeling like I am being intellectually challenged for the point of it or that I myself am challenging the writer to awe and inspire me…that’s bullcrap and noooo fun.

I like this rare feeling while reading a book because so often I feel manipulated by authors. Don’t get me wrong—I can totally appreciate being guided by an author’s words…and sometimes I am in the mood to be swept in whichever possible direction they’ve sought to carry me…there can be a relaxing quality in this too, if it is not overdone.

This book was an easy and relaxing read for me…which let me just…be. The story itself was just like that too…it just was. Thanks Ms. Brackston! Well done! En core! Have you written anything else?? I’m gonna check it out right now…=)
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Oct 01, 2011 Ben Babcock rated it 2 of 5 stars

Shelves: 2011-read, british-historical, fantasy, from-library, historical-fiction

You’re just going about your daily business, healing people and whatnot, and then what happens? The plague. Suddenly everyone in town is accusing you of being a witch and clamouring for the witch-finder to hang you for consorting with Satan and dancing naked with demons and whatnot. Isn’t that always the way of things? Don’t you hate how people are just so close-minded, even in as enlightened an age as the 1620s? Just because someone might be a witch doesn’t mean she worships Satan! Witches can...more

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Feb 18, 2013 Racysteed rated it 3 of 5 stars

I feel like this author has a lot of potential, but it wasn't quite realized in The Witch's Daughter. The characters were compelling, yet I consistently found myself wanting more: more depth, more backstory, more understanding of their motivation. Ms. Brackston has a talent for creating characters who draw the reader in and I really enjoyed the beginning and the diary entry format. Even the flashbacks worked for me, although it's becoming a worn format at this point. However, she undermined her...more

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Feb 01, 2013 Julie rated it 2 of 5 stars

It was decent enough that I finished reading it, but The Witch's Daughter was, above all else, formulaic and repetitive. Even though it was a book of 4 stories in one, they were all basically exactly the same, following the same pattern of A then B leads to C. "Plot twists" were predictable, especially after the first two internal stories finished. I kept finding myself asking the main character the question of, "Really? You haven't learned? You're supposed to have lived through all of these dif...more

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Mar 07, 2013 Brandi ;) marked it as started-didn-t-finish

Shelves: maybe-one-day, 2011, fairies-witches-vampires-and-were, paranormal, couldnt-get-n2-it

I'm not going to star this book bc I didn't finish it. I just couldn't get into it like I had hoped and with so many other books waiting to be read and so many more on their way soon, I just had to put it down. Last year I would have forced myself to finish, but since I've become a GR member I've come to realize - there are just WAY to many books out there for me to waste time on one that doesn't catch my interest. So, maybe one day I will pick this book back up and finish it. It wasn't bad, jus...more

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Jun 04, 2010 Trace rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: epic-fantasy-reads

This story starts in the present. A witch moves into a new home and attracts the attention of a local girl. Slowly she befriends the young girl and tells her about her past. She's lived a long time and the story steps back in time to when she was a young girl and came across magic. Another time period visited, was during killings of Jack of the Ripper in London. Again during the war too. These back stories of her life in different time periods are interesting. I prefer the story of her young day...more

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May 13, 2013 Palmer rated it 4 of 5 stars

I found this book hard to put down once I picked it up. The way she transfers from the present to the past flowed perfectly. The author didn't have things happen too fast but they weren't too slow either. (Again why it was hard to put the book down because everything flowed too well to put a halt to it) The only thing I didn't like was the main character's opinion of Gideon. Perhaps I myself am a bit dark and find guys with a dark evil past more inviting than deterring. So I wish the author eith...more

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Apr 09, 2013 Tara rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: books-read-in-2013, live-book-club-reads

In the spring of 1628, the Witchfinder of Wessex finds himself a true Witch. As Bess Hawksmith watches her mother swing from the Hanging Tree she knows that only one man can save her from the same fate at the hands of the panicked mob: the Warlock Gideon Masters, and his Book of Shadows. Secluded at his cottage in the woods, Gideon instructs Bess in the Craft, awakening formidable powers she didn’t know she had and making her immortal. She couldn't have foreseen that even now, centuries later, h...more

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Mar 18, 2013 Al rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

My name is Elizabeth Anne Hawksmith, and my age is three hundred and eighty-four years. If you will listen, I will tell you a tale of witches. A tale of magic and love and loss. A story of how simple ignorance breeds fear, and how deadly that fear can be. Let me tell you what it means to be a witch.

In the spring of 1628, the Witchfinder of Wessex finds himself a true Witch. As Bess Hawksmith watches her mother swing from the Hanging Tree she knows that only one man can save her from the same

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Mar 09, 2013 Ricki Treleaven rated it 4 of 5 stars

This week, I read The Witch's Daughter by Paula Brackston. I thought it would be a fun read for Halloween. This book is part historical romance, part thriller, and part modern fantasy. Elizabeth Anne Hawksmith is a witch who survived the English witch trials in the early seventeenth century. Elizabeth's mother, Anne, sacrifices herself so her daughter can live. Both are accused of witchcraft because they survived a plague that wiped out their entire family as well as others in their village. Unb...more This week, I read The Witch's Daughter by Paula Brackston. I thought it would be a fun read for Halloween. This book is part historical romance, part thriller, and part modern fantasy. Elizabeth Anne Hawksmith is a witch who survived the English witch trials in the early seventeenth century. Elizabeth's mother, Anne, sacrifices herself so her daughter can live. Both are accused of witchcraft because they survived a plague that wiped out their entire family as well as others in their village. Unbeknownst to Elizabeth, Anne really did make a deal with the devil as she asked for Gideon Master's help in saving her daughter. Gideon is a powerful warlock who is incredibly evil. He decides he wants Elizabeth as his mate, and so the chase through time begins.

Elizabeth is a good "hedge witch" and she wants nothing to do with the dark arts. She studies hard, and she learns all she can about healing both traditionally and through her craft. Whenever Elizabeth moves and begins a new life, she keeps a journal documenting her life and it becomes her Book of Shadows. For example, she becomes a surgeon during the Victorian era in Jack the Ripper's London. He seems to stalk her prostitute patients from her Whitechapel clinic and cut them with the precision of a surgeon. Also, Gideon appears to claim her in a very surprising guise.

Fast forward to the French battlefields of World War I. Elizabeth has found love in the arms of a Scottish officer, and yet she cannot stop herself from using magic to ease the suffering of the wounded soldiers. Any tiny bit of magic attracts the attention of Gideon, but Elizabeth, being the ultimate healer, bravely uses her magic anyway.

Today, Elizabeth is living in a small English village. She only wants to tend her cottage garden, and make her lotions, potions, and remedies to sell at a local market. A lonely teenager named Teagan befriends Elizabeth, and Elizabeth begins training Teagan as a hedge witch. Elizabeth knows that this practice could be dangerous: she does not want to attract the attention of Gideon because she wants to protect Teagan at all costs. Obviously, if an evil warlock is chasing a character through time, it cannot end well for everyone. I thought the ending was satisfying, but I would love to know more about Teagan and what happens to her, and what she becomes. The reader is just getting to know Teagan at the very end, which is sad because I think there is more to the story. Teagan finds Elizabeth's Book of Shadows, and contributes a final entry.

Most of the story is told in flashback. Elizabeth tells Teagan her story through the centuries as a lesson about resisting the dark arts. I found Teagan's character to be a little flat until the end, but in all fairness, most teenagers are secretive and do not share all aspects of their lives. One interesting thing about this book is that some witches are exactly what their accusers say they are, and it is biblically based. Satanic influences and demons are a big part of the story, and I found it frighteningly creepy. But on the other hand, there are witches who are not evil, and are part of a sisterhood that seems rather benign. I think that the world Paula Brackston created in this book is atypical of most books about witches.

Note to my British readers: This book is entitled The Book of Shadows in the UK. (less)

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Feb 25, 2013 Dena Landon added it

The Witch's Daughter follows Bess, a witch in England, from the beginning of her life to modern day almost six hundred years later as she grows in her powers, attempts to use them for good, and tries to outrun the warlock/demon who made her. The story's beginning is somewhat predictable, her mother is called a witch after the plague hits their village and Bess survives, and is hung, but its predictability is less a fault of the author and more because what happened to women accused of witchcraft...more

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Feb 06, 2013 Cresta rated it 4 of 5 stars

The Witch's Daughter by Paula Brackston is a magical and mysterious piece of historical fiction.

The book takes the reader through a lifetime of events not often experienced by one person. In my Saturday Morning Summary I indicated the book was moving a little slow for me, and it was. However, like most great books, a turning point emerges and it becomes impossible to put the book down. I found myself digesting a large cup of coffee last night to be absolutely sure I could stay awake to finish th...more

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Feb 02, 2013 Amanda rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: 2013

This book, which is probably best classified as historical fantasy despite the portions set in 2007, is an entertaining light read. The writing itself is engaging and enjoyable. One scene early on (view spoiler) made my skin crawl. The premise of the story is promising. The characters, specifically the protagonist and the antagonist, reminded me of characters in...more

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Sep 16, 2012 Paula rated it 1 of 5 stars

I usually love books with this premise but I only finished it because it was a book club pick. The story has an intriguing enough premise: a witch, hundreds of years old, meets a present day young girl and shares the story of how she became a witch and hopes to train the young girl as an apprentice. Through tales told to the young girl, we learn the tragic circumstances of her life and how she is constantly on the run from the man who made her what she has become. Each of her histories becomes r...more

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Nov 01, 2011 Kelly rated it 3 of 5 stars

I love historical fiction, especially anything about witches and witchcraft, so I was especially glad to find this book. It's similar to the Daughters Of the Witching Hill, The Heretic's Daughter and The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane, but less about the witch trials and more about the life of an immortal witch as she traverses through history in her 300-some odd years of life.

The first few chapters were slow and I wondered if the book would get better, which it did, only when the author star...more

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Sep 16, 2011 Patricia - Lady with Books rated it 3 of 5 stars

I was actually leaning more toward historical fiction for this book until demons and Satan showed up and the story tripped all over itself to end up firmly in the fantasy genre. The beginning of the book presents magic in a rational form, something that any craft practitioner would recognize today, and I believed the story would continue in that vein. But in the middle of the book the author takes a sharp left with how she is portraying magic and things get a bit silly from that standpoint. From...more I was actually leaning more toward historical fiction for this book until demons and Satan showed up and the story tripped all over itself to end up firmly in the fantasy genre. The beginning of the book presents magic in a rational form, something that any craft practitioner would recognize today, and I believed the story would continue in that vein. But in the middle of the book the author takes a sharp left with how she is portraying magic and things get a bit silly from that standpoint. From Wicca to Harry Potter in the space of one chapter.

I’ve said before that I like the author’s trick of using different names for each time period. It makes it simple to keep each story arc in place, even though they are the same person. What I don’t like is that the flashbacks are told in third person, while the present timeline is told in diary form. I loathe diary form. It’s told in first person and is very limiting, making the reader feel like they are watching a movie that continues to skip and no amount of thumping the player will make it stop. I realize that using diary form for the present timeline is just another way of identifying and separating the different eras, but it just makes me twitch.

Despite using one of my least favored writing forms, I liked the book. The main character was both a strong, capable woman and someone running away from their fears. Elizabeth is someone a reader can identify with and her personality is very down to earth, regardless of the fantastical nature of the magic in this book. There is a young girl character in the book that is a teenager and acts perfectly like it; meaning that I mostly just wanted to throw things at her. Love and obsession are far reaching themes in this book and they often blind the characters to what is really going on.

The ending was a bit anticlimactic and disappointing. The big duel between the powers of good and the powers of evil did happen but was told to us after the events in a diary entry by the teenage girl character. Instead of actually being shown the duel, we are told about it after the fact. The parts told in third person through the book are great but the parts told in diary form fall flat and having the big finish related like that was a huge let down to me. The concept of how the book is put together and told is unique but it did not enhance the book for me but rather subtracted.(less)

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May 02, 2011 Sheyla rated it 2 of 5 stars

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Jan 18, 2011 Lolly LKH rated it 1 of 5 stars

I had such high hopes, even ignoring the poor reviews that I should have heeded as warnings. The first few pages held promise, but then something happened, the character turned cold, and I didn't feel an intimacy at all in the writing. I do not have an issue, as some seem to, with stories written as a journal after all, my favorite books are Anais Nin's diaries, so long as the emotions are genuine. The only character I remotely liked was the evil villain, as he was the most interesting one. Woul...more

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Jan 25, 2013 Joy rated it 5 of 5 stars

I had seen this book reviewed and commented on recently, so I picked it up for my Kindle with some of my holiday gift certificates. I didn't really know much about it apart from the cover blurb, but it sounded interesting...and it turned out to more than fulfill that promise.

Elizabeth has recently moved to a small English village, and takes care to set up her small garden and business of selling herbs and oils/remedies at the local weekly markets. Of course, Elizabeth is a witch - she is nearly...more I had seen this book reviewed and commented on recently, so I picked it up for my Kindle with some of my holiday gift certificates. I didn't really know much about it apart from the cover blurb, but it sounded interesting...and it turned out to more than fulfill that promise.

Elizabeth has recently moved to a small English village, and takes care to set up her small garden and business of selling herbs and oils/remedies at the local weekly markets. Of course, Elizabeth is a witch - she is nearly four hundred years old, and has spent much of that time trying to use her power for good while staying out of reach of Gideon, the warlock that made her immortal. Elizabeth ends up making friends reluctantly with a young, lonely girl named Tegan, and it is her instruction of Tegan and the events of their contemporary life that frame the three other stories in this book.

Each of the three stories Elizabeth tells are novellas themselves, with the first story of Bess standing alone, and the later two of Eliza and Elise nearly so. Bess was the young girl that was transformed into an immortal witch by Gideon after her own mother was hung for witchcraft in the 1600s, simply for having one child live when the other two and her husband had died. Eliza was a doctor in London, working for a surgeon in a hospital and providing clinic services to the same prostitutes that Jack the Ripper preyed upon. And Elise was a combat nurse in France during WWI, doing her best to save lives at the front while falling in love with a handsome corporal who knew what she was and loved her anyway. Throughout each story (as well as the framing situation), Elizabeth is always hiding, always afraid, and always watching for Gideon to come for her, and this colors everything she does throughout her long life.

The writing is lovely, the book is so engaging I couldn't put it down until I was at a chapter break. The character of Elizabeth is beautifully portrayed, showing facets of her earlier lives of Bess, Eliza, and Elise. Magic is treated perfectly for the setting of the book, with a few flashy tricks but mostly reserved for quiet needs or the battles between Elizabeth and Gideon. Tegan is a great young character who shows growth and change throughout the story.

I really enjoyed this book, and think that most people who like strong women characters and especially magic will like it as well.(less)

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Feb 18, 2013 Donna The Happy Booker rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: read-in-2013, witchery

The Witch's Daughter was a fairly enjoyable read that made up in the evenly paced writing what it lacked in character and plot development. The writing flowed so beautifully that it was easy to lose myself in the story even when I felt that many of the characters lacked depth and the direction of the story was often confusing. For example, Gideon's obsession with Bess was never sufficiently explained which meant that his following her all of those years made little sense. It seemed beyond reason...more

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Jan 08, 2013 Marti rated it 2 of 5 stars

Shelves: fantasy, historical-fiction

The rating was 4 stars and the cover art was intriguing, whichn had gotten me as far as considering this book a few times. Then when Amazon put it on sale for $2.99, I figured I had just about nothing to lose. Nothing except for a big waste of my time. At least I'm a fairly fast reader. The basic premise was that during the Great Plague, Elizabeth's mother Anne was accused and convicted of being a witch and sentenced to die by hanging. This, after Elizabeth's beloved father, brother, and sister...more

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Mar 15, 2011 Rachel Lownds added it

Almost done. Ok book, a little too romance novelish for me.

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Mar 06, 2013 Jessie rated it 4 of 5 stars

Overall, I really enjoyed this book. I really want to give it 3.5 stars, but I rounded up.

My feelings about this book kept changing while I read it. On the one hand, some of the more historical fiction aspects of the novel really intrigued me because I took a history of witchcraft class in college and in some ways it was really a great piece of fiction surrounding the history of the persecution of witches. On the other hand, it really pissed me off that the witches ultimately received their pow...more

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Dec 30, 2012 Jennifer rated it 3 of 5 stars

Paula Brackston is a good writer. I very much enjoyed her novel 'The Winter Witch' and it inspired me to read this earlier novel of hers. The central character, Bess, is a character whom I felt an attachment to early on and I feel this is in part due to Ms Brackston's ability to make her characters vivid and lifelike--even in a fastasy novel. I use the term fantasy loosely (this is not a set-in-stone genre for this novel) but use it because of the amount of sorcery in this book, aswell as the us...more Paula Brackston is a good writer. I very much enjoyed her novel 'The Winter Witch' and it inspired me to read this earlier novel of hers. The central character, Bess, is a character whom I felt an attachment to early on and I feel this is in part due to Ms Brackston's ability to make her characters vivid and lifelike--even in a fastasy novel. I use the term fantasy loosely (this is not a set-in-stone genre for this novel) but use it because of the amount of sorcery in this book, aswell as the use of immortality.
By giving her central character immortality Ms Brackston enables us to travel through time with Bess to various points in history. We begin in the puritanical era of the 1600s and then find ourselves in Victorian London, where Bess is working as a doctor. We then move to the First World War where Bess is stationed near the front line, working as nurse in Paschendale. Inter-woven between these time periods is the Bess that lives in the modern-day world. It is this Bess that is telling the reader the story of her past.
Considering how much I liked the storyline, let me explain why I only chose to give this novel three stars. It was because the author took the leap to make the modern-day version of Bess of the Wiccan religion. I have no idea why she did this, as no progression to this point was shown in the novel. The references to the Goddess that Bess made were of no relevance to the fact that she was a witch. Some modern-day witches may call themselves Wiccans, but not all witches are Wiccans and not all Wiccans are witches! Wicca is a relatively new religion, and would not have been around at the time that Bess was growing up in the 1600s. Of course she could have adopted this religion later in life but this is not referenced in the book. The reader is clearly supposed to make the leap that Bess is now both witch and Wiccan in the modern day, and not to question it.
As much as I appreciated the storyline of this novel, and enjoyed the various time periods, the above issue sullied the novel a little to much for me I'm afraid.(less)

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Jan 22, 2013 Gretchen rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: fiction-general, mystery-whodunnit, reading-challenge-2013

This book was well written and engaging- right up until the portion set in WWI. Then the author lost me. It just got to be too much and too slow. I really enjoyed the portions that were set in 1628 and the 1880s, the action and relationships in which were fast paced and fresh. Bess' character is well developed, although hers is the only one that is. Tegan and Gideon are all flat literary devices used only to hang Bess' story on. I could have done without Tegan all together and would have preferr...more

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Nov 05, 2012 Heidi rated it 1 of 5 stars

Only good thing was her style of writing. Brackston's good at descriptive writing but sadly not capable of weaving a gripping story nor is her heroine likeable or even particularly interesting. Also her research leaves a lot to be desired, the first blunder being that Elizabeth is in her early 50s in the here and now, is 17 in 1628 and ages about 5 years per century. In simple mathematical terms that should make her no older than 35, and, considering that she's an attractive woman still desirabl...more

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Jan 17, 2012 Bix rated it 5 of 5 stars

Elizabeth Anne Hawksmith, or Bess as she’s known by those in her village, suffers the loss of her father, sister and brother only to watch helplessly as her mother is accused of witchcraft. Before she’s hanged, her mother extracts a promise from Bess: if she is ever in danger, she must seek help from the Warlock Gideon Masters and his Book of Shadows. Bess is forced to keep her promise, and though at first seduced by the power Gideon unleashes in her and her growing attraction to him, she is for...more

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Sep 07, 2011 Jessica B. rated it 4 of 5 stars

I am a huge fan of historical fiction. I am a huge fan of the supernatural. Put those together and I'm immediately intrigued.

The book jumps back and forth between Bess's past lives and her current one. Beginning from where she first learned about magic during some hardcore events in her childhood thanks to her mother and through the Jack the Ripper era. (that plot twist was awesome) Bess is an amazingly strong character, but her flaw is that she runs from her problems. Granted, her problem is a...more

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Feb 09, 2013 Branwen rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition Recommends it for: Contemporary fantasy fans, people who don't mind inaccurate 'witchery' books

I'm...really torn about this book.

I was really impressed with it for the first 150 pages or so. The story starts with Elizabeth, an immortal witch who has just moved to a beautiful pastoral town in England. The setting and descriptions of the scenery and landscape are jsut absolutely gorgeous. The story starts out in the present, but then goes back and forth a bit for Elizabeth to recollect the different places and time periods in which she lived. Critical to her past, is her mentor Gideon, who...more

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Jan 09, 2012 Marek rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

The Witch's Daughter chronicles the life of Elizabeth (Bess) Hawksmith as she goes from innocent country girl to witch. Bess watcher her mother hang after she's accused of witchcraft and Bess knows it's only a matter of time before she is, as well.

Bess knows the only person who can save her is the Warlock Gideon Masters. In his secluded forest cottage, Gideon instructs Bess in the dark arts and awakening powers she didn't think she had. Once she realizes what she's done, she runs from him and sh...more

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