A modern day witch.
This book was a huge surprise. Fantasy is not normally my chosen genre, but I decided to give this a listen for something a little different, and was surprised at how much I enjoyed it. There are witches and spells, as i'd kind of expected, but also past life regression and reference to the historical persecution of witches, which seemed to anchor the book and give it depth.

Raven Kane was a hugely likable character, a struggling witch, suffering from asthma and an issue with burning, blistering skin. She lives in her grandmother's crumbling wooden house and tries to make a living by doing spells on request. Other services are available, some less legitimate than others. It is this that leads to her becoming persecuted in a modern day re-enactment of the witch burnings of old.
A clever idea that worked really well.

I loved the narration by Roshina Ratnam, who had a delightfully subtle South African accent. She managed great men's voices as well as women's and had perfect pacing.

Probably my only issue with the book was the similarity in the names of the High Priestess (Levinia) and the head of the Wicked Witches (Luella). I only sorted out these two in the last 10%, when both appeared together in the same scene, but I guess that is one of the problems with audio.

I can't wait for the next books in the series to be available as audiobooks, hopefully with the same narrator. ( )

meh - for someone who supposedly has an expanded awareness of their environment the main character sure is bound to a restrictively modern view of the world and interpretation of reality ( )