One of the things that I regret about deleting all of my reviews on Amazon is that I could not get them to import to Goodreads. Booklikes makes it a bit difficult to import from Amazon too so I just gave up since the thought of copying and posting around 500 reviews did not appeal to me at all. I initially read Witch Song #1 a couple of years ago. I had some problems with the world building and the never ending quest of this book but ultimately did like it. I read Witch Song #2 and once again had the same issues with that book that I did with book #1 with the added problem that there is a lot of description of things that I wish had been cut out to make the book flow together better. I finally got around to reading Witch Song #3 this past weekend. You really do have to read through books #1 and #2 if you want to have an inkling of who this main character is and why she is so important to events that transpire in those books. Witch Fall is a prequel to books #1 and #2.

Book #3 focuses on Lilette. In the world that Ms. Argyle has created, witches are worth a lot and due to their ability to sing, can rule the air, fire, water, and earth.

Lilette we find is an orphaned witch who after being found on an island is told by the man who finds and raises her to never sing, since witches are able to sense each other through their song. Lilette is about to be married to the island chief and is plotting to run away when she is kidnapped and listens to those she grew up with being slaughtered. I did like the characrter of Lilette and others we are introduced to like Han and Jolin. However, there were too many problems for me to overlook to give this a four star rating so I gave it a 3.5 star rating.

Once again I have to find fault with the writing and pacing in this book. Ms. Argyle started off this book as if people would know who the main character Lilette was and the island and people she lived with. We honestly get plopped right down in the middle of a kidnapping and I felt like I missed something since we are introduced to characters that the main character practically just says "oh this is so and so and I knew him as a child." Okay good for you, can we please have some backstory here.

This book just like it's predecessors also needs to be cut down a lot. There are just passages and passages of Lilette planning her escape and being thwarted at every turn. I really wanted to say to her, "please be smarter."

I think the world building could have been improved as well since it seems like all of the main players are pretty much a boat ride of two to three days away from each other. I wish that there had been a map so I could more easily picture where lands and kingdoms were placed in this world.

The romance such as it was did touch me and I thought the ending was actually very well done. I honestly did not see it going that way since the way things were depicted in books #2 I thought that it implied a different ending than the one I read here. ( )