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A Witch in Time

Constance Sayers (Goodreads Author)

4.03 · Rating details · 3,740 ratings · 617 reviews

A young woman in Belle Epoque France is cursed to relive a doomed love affair through many lifetimes, as both troubled muse and frustrated artist.

In 1895, sixteen-year-old Juliet LaCompte has a passionate, doomed romance with the married Parisian painter Auguste Marchant. When her mother — a witch — botches a curse on Marchant, she unwittingly binds Juliet to the artist th ...more

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Nov 04, 2019 Elaine rated it did not like it · review of another edition

Shelves: save-the-drama-for-your-mama, its-magic, kindle, sci-fi-mumbo-jumbo, fresh-meat, netgalley

Thank you to NetGalley for A Witch in Time.

They might regret it because I'm gonna rip it a new one.

I was really excited to read A Witch in Time because the premise had all the elements I look for: magic, demons, horror, love, tragic love!

I'm so there!

Then, I started reading.

** Danger Will Robinson! Spoilers ahead **

I disliked Juliet. Intensely. She is a silly little girl with no redeemable qualities.

In fact, the urge to punch her throughout the years only grew with my intense dislike ...more

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Apr 11, 2020 Nenia ✨️ Socially Awkward Trash Panda ✨️ Campbell rated it really liked it

Shelves: les-arcs-de-triomphes, fantasy, historical-fiction

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I grabbed A WITCH IN TIME on impulse because the prospect of doomed love has always been a concept that has appealed to the dark romantic in me. It is a story about a woman with a curse, doomed to repeat the same mistakes throughout time. And the man-- or should I say, demon-- who loves her. Oh, and she's a witch.

"Aha!" I thought. "Interesting!"

And it was... interesting. But not in the way I expected or necessarily wanted. Gentle spoiler ...more

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Jan 13, 2020 Scarlett Readz and Runz....Through Novel Time & Distance rated it really liked it

The muse.

The actress.

The musician.

The witch.

There is only one novel in which you can live your life four times, in different ways, through two centuries, trapped in a deadly curse with a demon at your heels. If you are a fan of time-travel books like me, then the blurb alone at the back of the book should have you hooked in an instant.

Washington, DC, 2012 - After divorcing Roger, an art collector and “wunderkind in the philanthropy world” Helen is on a blind date with Luke Varner, who is t ...more

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Feb 09, 2020 Lisa Wolf rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: witches, time-travel-and-timey-weirdness, love-stories, art-artists

A Witch in Time is a haunting story of doomed, enduring love. It’s mesmerizing and otherworldly, yet also very much grounded in the here and now.

As the story opens, we meet Helen Lambert, a successful media professional in her mid-30s, recently divorced from a mover and shaker in the museum world, cautiously stepping back into the dating world. But the man she’s set up with on a blind date is both strange and familiar. There’s something about Luke Varner that resonates with Helen. He implies tha A Witch in Time is a haunting story of doomed, enduring love. It’s mesmerizing and otherworldly, yet also very much grounded in the here and now.

As the story opens, we meet Helen Lambert, a successful media professional in her mid-30s, recently divorced from a mover and shaker in the museum world, cautiously stepping back into the dating world. But the man she’s set up with on a blind date is both strange and familiar. There’s something about Luke Varner that resonates with Helen. He implies that they’ve met before — in fact, that they share a history. Strangest of all, he takes her to a gallery in her ex’s museum and shows her a 19th century painting of a young girl who looks startlingly similar to Helen.

Helen begins to have vivid dreams of another life, in which she appears as young Juliet LaCompte, a French farm girl in love with the suave painter who lives next door. For Helen, it’s as if she’s living these moments, not just dreaming them. And when she wakes up, she knows that what she’s experienced is true.

As the days and weeks go by, Helen’s connection to Luke is revealed and her entanglement with Juliet and other women across time slowly comes to light through her vivid dreams. As Helen discovers, she, Luke and the artist Juliet once loved are doomed to repeat their patterns time and time again, for eternity — living out a curse placed in anger by an inexperienced witch, condemning them all to a hopeless cycle.

Oh, this book is captivating! I fell in love with the strange lives revealed to Helen through her dreams — 1890s Paris, 1930s Hollywood, 1970s Taos. In each, Helen (or Juliet) takes on a slightly different life, but there are elements that are consistent from lifetime to lifetime. And through these varied lives, Luke remains a constant, there to protect Helen and her predecessors over and over again… but also to love them.

The mood of the book is lush and dreamy. So much happens, and it takes a leap of faith to just go with the story and allow it to unfold at its own pace. And trust me, it’s worth it! The author gives us historical set-pieces that are atmospheric and convey the feel of the their different periods so well. She also manages to connect the dots between Juliet/Helen’s different personas, so that even though we meet four very different women (and their four very different love obsessions), the common threads are very visible as well.

Despite being over 400 pages in length, A Witch in Time goes by very quickly. I simply couldn’t put it down, and didn’t want to! I was very caught up in the story of recurring love and recurring tragedy, and felt incredibly breathless waiting for each new life’s particular patterns to unfold.

Absolutely a must-read! Don’t miss this one.

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Oct 23, 2020 Kirsty Hendry rated it really liked it

Thank you Netgalley for providing me with an e-copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.

In 1895, in France, 16 year old Juliet LaCompte falls hopelessly in love with Auguste Marchant, the painter who lives nearby. Their relationship is doomed from the start. August is already married and Juliet has been promised to another. Juliet's mother is a witch who provides small spells and potions to the local townspeople. When she discovers Juliet and Marchant's relationship she is livid. In a ...more

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Feb 09, 2020 Mogsy (MMOGC) rated it really liked it

Shelves: witches-and-wizards, magic, fantasy, review-copy, historical-fiction

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I really enjoyed A Witch in Time, but I’ll say this right off the bat—it’s not going to be for everyone. First of all, if you’re looking for a “witchy” book, with magic and spells and all that jazz, well…this is not going to be it. What we have here is more like a love story, and it’s a strange one at that. Delving into the concept of past lives and predetermined fate, this novel follows three characters and their various 4 of 5 stars at The BiblioSanctum https://bibliosanctum.com/2020/02/13/...

I really enjoyed A Witch in Time, but I’ll say this right off the bat—it’s not going to be for everyone. First of all, if you’re looking for a “witchy” book, with magic and spells and all that jazz, well…this is not going to be it. What we have here is more like a love story, and it’s a strange one at that. Delving into the concept of past lives and predetermined fate, this novel follows three characters and their various incarnations going back for more than a hundred years.

But we first begin the story in the present with Helen, an ambitious journalist working the political circuit in Washington DC. Having recently divorced Roger, a man she’d thought would be her soulmate, Helen is finally feeling up to seeing other people again and is about to sit down to a blind date with Luke Varner. However, she senses a strange familiarity when she really looks at Luke, even though she’s almost certain they’ve never met before. But Luke informs her that, in fact, they are very well acquainted—not in this life, perhaps, but in the past, when she was a different person.

Helen leaves the date convinced that everything Luke told her was nonsense, but that night, she has a series of vivid dreams in which she is Juliet LaCompte, a sixteen-year-old French farm girl in 1895. At the time, Juliet was involved in an affair with Parisian painter Auguste Marchant, with whom she was madly in love. Unfortunately, he did not feel the same way and left her broken-hearted and with child. Juliet’s mother, a hedge witch who dabbled in the dark arts, invoked a curse on Marchant, but inadvertently ended up binding her daughter to the spell as well. A demonic servant, Luke—who was known then as Lucian Varnier—was then roped in as the administrator of the dark pact, and thus the three of them were forever bound. Juliet and Marchant are cursed to reincarnate again and again, and in each life they will fall in love, only to have that love eventually fail spectacularly, with no exception. An immortal, Luke must find each iteration of Juliet to help her remember the events that started it all, and hope that one day they will manage to break this vicious cycle.

As the story progresses, Helen eventually recalls two more past lives, one as Nora Wheeler, a 19-year-old aspiring actress from the 1930s who had moved from New York City to Hollywood in order to become a star. The next is Sandra Keane, a young Los Angeles musician in the 70s who traveled with her band to a remote studio in New Mexico to record their first album. In both lives, the women fell in love with men who were incarnations of Marchant. And both times, Luke was there to see her through the disastrous results. Because Juliet was the daughter of a witch, she had the magic that enabled her to remember the past lives, but the curse also meant that she always died young. Her incarnations never lived past thirty-four, as that was the age Juliet’s mother died when she made her deal with a demon.

So, essentially what we’re getting are four stories in A Witch in Time, each featuring different settings and characters, but they are all trapped in the same pattern cursed to repeat forever. It’s a bizarre structure, but somehow it worked. With each remembered past life, the details are wildly different—and Juliet/Nora/Sandra/Helen all have their own unique personalities, even if they do represent the same person. In fact, this point plays a key role in the novel, as Luke struggles with his feelings for the different versions of Juliet, watching someone he cares for very much die and live again, not knowing what the next cycle will bring. He’s perhaps the most sympathetic character in the book, because he’s the one constant who remembers everything from the past hundred and twenty-five odd years or so. While Helen’s character development feels disjointed because it is punctuated by all her dreams and memories of her past lives, we can track Luke’s motivations through history as he makes mistakes, learns from them, and tries to be a better guardian each time.

There’s also a strong thread of romance here, which I suppose culminates into a love story at the end, but it would still be extremely tough to categorize this book. So often I found myself wanting to immerse myself in its storm of emotions, but at the same time, the novel’s very premise presented a barrier to that. After all, if the characters are always fated to end up in the same position in each life, are the feelings they have truly genuine then?

Yes, it’s a messy situation, which results in a somewhat messy novel. That said, I don’t know if searching for a “point” behind it is the way to go. I personally kicked back and simply allowed the story to take me where it wanted to go, and I enjoyed myself immensely because of it. The stories of Helen’s past lives built upon each other, and with each dream she had, more was revealed. And as I said, each life she lived had its surprising plot twists and interesting developments. As its title suggests, this book was a romp through time, and it was pure delight to visit the different historical eras. What’s more, as we make our way towards the end, the suspense builds as we wonder if Helen will remember everything in time before her predestined death, and whether or not she will have what it takes to break the curse once and for all.

Bottom line, I thought A Witch in Time was refreshingly different—a somewhat unusual but interesting read. I had a good time, which surprised me, since I’m not normally one for stories that are made up of smaller parts stitched together, which pretty much describes this one. I won’t deny there were some missteps, a few details here and there that didn’t hold water, but I suppose that’s typically a consequence when dealing with books like this. It’s not one I would recommend to everyone, but I do urge you to give it a try if the synopsis grabs your attention. At the end of the day, I enjoyed myself, and that’s all that matters. ...more

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Jan 18, 2020 Alma Katsu rated it it was amazing

For fans of A Discovery of Witches, Outlander, and (dare I say it?) The Taker, A Witch in Time is a story of star-crossed love across the centuries. Dazzling and romantic.

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Sep 06, 2020 Maria rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Ok WOAH. What did I read!? I went into this book expecting something, and I was taken on a whole different direction, which I loved! So we’ll written, and I loved how, in the beginning we’re given little snippets of past VS present, but then after we know what’s going on we’re given huge blocks of time - it felt like there was 4 books in 1!

The characters are easy to love and root for, despite knowing what’s going to happen. The ending was perfect and not rushed, which is always a good sign!

Not ...more

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Dec 15, 2019 Hester Fox rated it it was amazing

Shelves: fiction, witch-fic

Fans of Deborah Harkness will devour this page-turning tale of love, reincarnation, and dark magic. A highly unique and enjoyable read!

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Mar 11, 2020 Vonda rated it it was ok · review of another edition

Intriguing storyline BUT it dragged at points, was confusing at times and sometimes went too fast so you couldn't keep up. It's a meh read. The type book you would find in a dollar store. ...more

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Feb 29, 2020 kayla rated it did not like it

This book had so much potential, the story premise and concept were a home run from the first time I heard about it. I was not expecting to be met with a book that I disliked so greatly.

Unfortunately, the execution fell extremely flat for me. Writing style is a preference, and I just wasn’t sucked in by Constance’s style. I felt it was too dialogue heavy and the pacing was off — I just wasn’t a fan of the storytelling. There were moments that felt unnecessarily elongated and other times where an ...more

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Apr 07, 2020 Tammy(PeaceLoveBooks) rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: netgalley-read, read-in-2020, read-in-april-20

With all the covid-19 news, I have been struggling to read. I picked up A Witch in Time and devoured the majority of the book in one long sitting! This is the deeply intriguing story of a doomed love story cursed to repeat time and time again. Reminiscent of The Time Traveler’s Wife with a bit of The Mayfair Witches series mixed in. Constance Sayers has written a brilliant debut!

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Feb 09, 2020 Milena rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: netgalley, paris-is-always-a-good-idea

A Witch In Time has all the elements that attract me to a book: witches, demons, past lives, reincarnation, and a cursed/doomed love. This book is about a human, a witch, and a demon stuck in a perpetual looped curse that three of them have to relive in multiple lifetimes. It all starts in 1895, when a Parisian painter, Auguste Marchant, seduces sixteen-years old Juliet. Juliet's mother, a minor witch, curses Auguste to eternal damnation, accidentally tying Juliet to Auguste's fate. Lucas is the ...more

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May 07, 2020 Maha rated it did not like it

Imagine living four lives and still having no personality or romantic tension whatsoever.
I haven't read a good romance in what feels like an eternity, I just want to feel something :( ...more

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Oct 16, 2020 Jennifer rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

TW: rape, abortion, physical and verbal abuse, suicide, murder, drug addiction and also deals with very dark magic.
I enjoyed this book. I admit it started off a little slow for me but I did love and enjoy this book. I have to say I really enjoyed Nora's story line, she was an actress in the 193os. I like Constance Sayers' storytelling and I'm very excited to read her next book. ...more

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May 20, 2020 Erin rated it really liked it

Shelves: historic-fiction-1800s

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I put Constance Sayers’ A Witch in Time aside as a DNF the first time I picked it up. Helen Lambert bored me to tears, and I cared so little about her love life that I could not push through the beginning of chapter three. I had no intention of returning to the book, but I left it on my kindle and ended up cracking it open on the heels of a heavy nonfiction, thinking it would serve as a mindless transitional read. You know, Find this and other reviews at: http://historicalfictionreader.blogsp...

I put Constance Sayers’ A Witch in Time aside as a DNF the first time I picked it up. Helen Lambert bored me to tears, and I cared so little about her love life that I could not push through the beginning of chapter three. I had no intention of returning to the book, but I left it on my kindle and ended up cracking it open on the heels of a heavy nonfiction, thinking it would serve as a mindless transitional read. You know, something to pass the time as I looked for something I could lose myself in.

My second attempt started much like my first, but I pushed through and found some traction in chapter four when the story transitioned to Juliet in 1895. Juliet is, admittedly, not my favorite character in the novel, but I liked the L'Inconnue de la Seine vibe of her storyline and found the relationships she shares with her mother and guardian more than a little intriguing.

I know playing favorites is dangerous, but I fell hard for Nora in the 1930s. I love Hollywood history and while I cannot speak to Sayers’ inspiration, I delighted in noting parallels between Nora’s story and the lives of Billy Wilkerson, William Desmond Taylor, and Natalie Wood. I had been half-hooked by Juliet's story, but I was utterly swept away by Nora's.

Sandra, in the 1970s, was the most challenging protagonist for me to read. I flat out resented her for not being Nora, and while that initially frustrated me, I grew to appreciate how my reaction to Sandra mirrored the themes of her storyline. I also liked the intensity of these chapters and how the course of Sandra’s experience illustrated the curse to which she was bound.

I do not know if Sayers reads reviews for her books, but on the off-chance she stumbles across mine, I would like her to know I enjoyed this particular serving of crow. I tossed A Witch in Time aside on what I still feel its weakest points, but my second pass proved I dismissed the novel too soon. Sayers' historical cast and their experiences have haunted my imagination for weeks, and I am grateful for the stupid assumption that prompted me to give it another chance as the story proved well-worth my time and attention. ...more

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Mar 05, 2020 A N N A rated it it was ok · review of another edition

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Mar 10, 2020 Bree Hill rated it liked it

Shelves: 2020-least-faves

This has all the makings of a five star read for me. It’s not a bad book! It has its issues that I was able to kind of read through and get past..I think writing stories the way this one is written has to be tricky: we have a modern day heroine who is the reincarnation of another women from 1895. She is about to reach her 34th birthday and relives her past lives and learns that basically the way the curse on her is set up-she never lives past 34. So we follow not only her but the three women she ...more

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Feb 26, 2020 Yvette rated it really liked it

GIVE ME THE ADAPTATION 💔

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Aug 29, 2019 Christie«SHBBblogger» rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: advanced-copy, feb2020, dark, tortured-hero, debut-author, historical-romance, top-shelf-quality, fantasy, what-did-i-just-read, three-is-a-crowd

Title: A Witch in Time
Series: Standalone
Author: Constance Sayers
Release date: February 11, 2020
Cliffhanger: No
Genre: fantasy, historical fiction

"Our illusions are powerful things we cling to."

I used to be cautious when trying out new authors. The unfamiliarity of their writing, not knowing how well you will mesh with their personal style, and the worry that the quality may not be up to par were things that went through my head. But in the last couple of years, I've found that some of my favorit ...more

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Sep 09, 2020 Piepie rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: historical, read-in-2020, fantasy-and-supernatural

Couldn't put this book down! I loved it!! Starcrossed lovers are my jam, and this story definitely delivered. Highly recommended! ...more

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Nov 27, 2020 Roxie |The Book Slayer| Voorhees rated it it was amazing

Ok so as I pick up the shattered pieces of my effin heart, let me say this isn't my "normal" type of reading, but I am so glad I picked it up. I am a fan of nearly anything to do with witches, especially if lots of lore is involved. But this one had a love story that, that, that Idk how to explain it without ruining it so just read it ok. ...more

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Aug 18, 2020 Ella PiloFerguson rated it it was amazing

This was everything I love in one. Magic, history and reincarnation.

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Feb 20, 2020 BreeAnn (She Just Loves Books) rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: fantasy, romance, paranormal

What I Loved:
I LOVED this book. Every single word, every page, every character. Can I also just throw in my massive cover-love for this one! It was a wonderful, exciting ride filled with a witch’s curse, a romance that spans lifetimes, secrets, and so much more!

How I Felt:
This book just grabbed me from the start. I love it when a book does that because I’m immediately invested and find myself flying through the pages. With A Witch in Time, I never stopped being invested and it was wonderful.

The ...more

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Dec 07, 2019 Permanently_Booked rated it really liked it

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I received this e-arc from NetGalley and the author for an honest and unbiased review that is solely my own.

The title and especially the cover are what caught my attention when I first saw this novel. The premise was icing on the cake. I want to preface by stating this is not like a young adult novel of curses, witches, demons and love. This isn’t even like Practical Magic level of witchery. This novel is a curse of revenge done by a lesser witch to “protect” her daughter but it backfires, ensn ...more

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Nov 03, 2020 Kelly rated it really liked it

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This book was recommended by my GR friend Toni. I most likely wouldn’t have picked it up without her bringing it to my attention so thank you for that. I love stories of reincarnation and loved ones finding each other again and again in the next life. This had a bit of a twist with a curse tied in. I enjoyed it but didn’t love it. The writing is very good and the story interesting. I think my problem was every time I began to like a storyline it changed of course in a way the character is always ...more

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Oct 11, 2020 Rebecca rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: fantasy, historical-fiction, time-travel, bris-lib

3.5/5

I didn’t care as much for Sandra’s parts but overall I enjoyed this, especially the history.

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Apr 08, 2020 Rashell Reed rated it it was amazing

Beautiful story.

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Dec 08, 2019 Iryna KL rated it liked it

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I received an e-galley of this title via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. Thank you publisher!

2.5 out of 5 stars

A Witch in Time is a story of a young witch, an artist and a demon cursed to be reborn over and over again to live out a doomed love affair. Once I heard the words witch, artist and demon - I was so there! I was so excited about this book and the cover is gorgeous.

Well this book was not what I expected. The characters were flat, one dimensional, the book jumped the shark i I received an e-galley of this title via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. Thank you publisher!

2.5 out of 5 stars

A Witch in Time is a story of a young witch, an artist and a demon cursed to be reborn over and over again to live out a doomed love affair. Once I heard the words witch, artist and demon - I was so there! I was so excited about this book and the cover is gorgeous.

Well this book was not what I expected. The characters were flat, one dimensional, the book jumped the shark in 3rd reincarnation and the ending was predictable.

My first problem with the book is the age gap between Merchant & Juliette. She’s 16 and he’s in his 30s with a wife and a kid on the way. Historically, I am aware that these things happened - but I honestly couldn’t get past the revulsion I felt when they had sex, or when he painted her nude. I don’t know but to me this is just pedophilia. They have a love affair, it happens in like 20 pages, like just happens, for purposes of the plot. It’s so unbelievable.

My second problem is that this book is VERY rape happy - why? Just to show that Juliette has a hard life. Juliette is to marry a young man who is cruel and abusive to save her family. It’s very Tess of the d’Umbervilles - a young woman, trying to save her family gets raped by the richer man, then she is disgraced and discarded like trash. Not to mention that once Juliette leaves - her younger sister marries this awful piece of trash and gets abused by him. WHY?! I felt so awful for the sister! Why didn’t Juliette ever help her?! She was only obsessed with herself - that’s why. Which brings us to why I dislike Juliette.

Then we have Juliette - a spoiled brat who never really grows up. The wold is just against her and she makes all of her own problems. And I understand, she’s still in her teens, but I just couldn’t care for her. Honestly, I couldn’t care for any of her reincarnations, like at all, and especially Hellen. WOW I have not disliked a character this much in a long time. She’s shallow, self-obsessed, self-important, and one dimensional. She only cares about what kind of designer she wears, what kind of party she attends/throws, who is present at this party, how it can benefit her, how her house looks - honestly she needs to be Instagram ready at all times. If I wanted to read about any of this - I’d pick up a Vogue, not a historical fiction book. And then Merchant (the artist) is just there to break her art and Luke (the demon) to pick up the pieces and put her back together.

The magic and the demon take up maybe like 10 pages total of this book. Basically what drew me to the book in the first place was not there.

And then there are descriptions like: “She turned to see a middle-aged woman with long hair and low breasts leaning against the doorway.” Why are her breasts mentioned in this? What’s the purpose of their description? I honestly don’t think this author likes women very much, what with all the rape, descriptions of saggy breasts and the misfortune that befalls them She likes them only if they’re wearing a 2013 Alexander McQueen gown at a gallery opening.

There are parts of the book I did enjoy: the way the curse worked with the administrator (if it was done better), Juliette’s mother’s back story, traveling through time and seeing Paris in the 19th century.

This could have been a great book, but instead it’s just a shallow piece of work that made me angry and depressed. ...more

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Feb 20, 2020 Dawnny rated it really liked it

We follow Juliette through a doomed romance that spans multiple lifetimes from a curse cast by her mother that was suppose to protect her. If you're looking for alot of magic or young adult type witchy this isn't it. This is very dark at some points. There is abuse and rape. This was a very creative plot. I loved the time travel back in time. There are four different lifetimes. Historical star crossed lovers. A hauntingly beautiful debut.

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Constance Sayers' debut novel, A Witch in Time, is available now from Orbit (Hachette Book Group). You can follow her on Twitter and Instagram @constancesayers.

A finalist for Alternating Current’s 2016 Luminaire Award for Best Prose, her short stories have appeared in Souvenir and Amazing Graces: Yet Another Collection of Fiction by Washington Area Women as well as The Coil. Her short fiction has ...more