Name: Bitterthorn
Rating: 3.6875 (8 reviews)
ISBN: 9781839132957

Kat Dunn

Bitterthorn

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✨ Initial vibe: Gothic, spooky and feminine rage. 💭 Loved: The writing was easy to follow, the world was built great. 🪞 Didn’t love: The plot died down around the beginning and just became repetitive. 🌙 Fav Quote: “The hurtful truth of death was that it was as mundane as a meal uneaten, a cup knocked over.”

Could have been a bit better. But, it was a good love story. Of sacrificd, learning and secrets. 

Jodie Reads

Blumwald is a town overshadowed by an ancient curse: in a sinister castle in the depths of the wild wood lives a monstrous Witch. Once a generation, she comes to claim a companion to return with her – never to be seen again. Now that time is drawing near once more... Mina, daughter of the duke, is grieving and lonely. She has lost all hope of any future for herself in Blumwald. So when the Witch demands her next companion, Mina offers herself up – though she has no idea what fate awaits her. Stranded with her darkly alluring captor, the mystery of what happened to the previous companions draws Mina into the heart of a terrifying secret that could save her life, or end it.

this sapphic enemies to lovers novel had a lot of parallels to the beauty and the beast. personally i’m not a big fan of a first person narrator, but kat dunn managed to pull me into her magical world regardless and i was hooked! bitterthorn is the found family book i didn’t knew i needed and i can highly recommend it to everyone, considering it is easy to understand without being shallow.

Bitterthorn

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