Winter Witch was enjoyable, but it had a few issues that kept me from rating it higher. The setting felt fleshed out but that's mostly a given because this novel takes place in an established RPG campaign setting. The main characters were well written and had mostly clear motivations that made sense but almost everyone else (including the main antagonist) just sort of felt like they were to there only to provide precisely enough motivation necessary to keep the main characters on track for the end of the book and nothing more.

The book is a travel story, and can't really be described as an adventure. I would say that a good three fifths of the story were devoted to getting the main characters to their final destination, and while the setup didn't feel rushed the ending really did. Once at their destination the events that compelled the main characters from the beginning are quickly and almost laughably easily resolved, leaving the main characters just enough pages to fall in love and wander into the sunset together.