Threadneedle by Cari Thomas
Rating: ✩✩✩✩✩
Threadneedle is one of those books where it doesn't feel like much is happening, but somehow you can’t put it down. The world building is immersive, the characters are well developed and the story contains all our favorite witchy tropes: hidden magic, academia, teen hijinks, spooky mysteries and young women discovering their (literal and figurative) power. Straddling the line between YA material and a very adult voice, I would call this a New Adult read that will be a hit for readers who love a witch-core coming of age story. My only gripe is that the resolution feels slightly Agatha Christie-ish in that the mystery gets solved in a big rush at the end with a reveal of information that no one (either the protagonists or the reader) knew about. Plenty of clues were left in the narrative, but the hand waving in of mystery solving, and the hand waving out of a few loose ends, felt a bit out of tune with the rest of the novel.
Published by:Harper 360 Release Date: 14 February 2023
1 comment:
I like a good witch read now and then. Nice review!
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