Reviews for A falcon for a witch

The average rating for A falcon for a witch based on 2 reviews is 4.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2012-07-27 00:00:00 Eugene Polles At last! It took me three agonizingly long days to get a chance to read the new series I picked up. I had to finish another book first - grrr. This sadly wasn't what I expected, though. Maybe the writing style wouldn't have worn thin if I enjoyed the story better. I thought of the traditional gothic stories with big, looming castles, davishingly handsome men, and a smidge of romance that makes the heart melt. Instead the main protagonist isn't a very friendly wench. Being in her head would be similar to being in the head of a sociopath, or at least it felt like that at the time. Sure, the girl HAD feelings, they were just oddly spread out. When her grandfather died, as an example, she looked about it so logically and without too much emotion. WTF?? He was all the family she had! I suppose Darby was setting up the whole witch thing, but really, she's the main protagonist and she got on my nerves. In fact, my favorite character was her beloved Harry, who despite his flaws at least was more likeable. He did the 'wrong' thing in the end, but he suffered mentally rolling over the decision. It doesn't matter which way he decided, he still showed more emotion that she. Margred's love for him doesn't make much sense to me either. I understand there's something special about him that attracts her, and her eventual seeking of revenge is adumbrated at the beginning by a rude man, but why him of all people? How could she so instantly fall in love? And I wanted one last confrontation between them, damnit! This is one of those depressing novels a bit reminiscent of the original V.C. Andrews - almost every damn person dies! And each time the knife in the heart twists even deeper. Argh! I liked this in Andrews' books but here it just pissed me off further. Not that many of the characters deserved falling in love with, but still. Another irritating side note is that the front excerpt doesn't seem to have happened in the book. When did that scene ever occur? It didn't go down like that at all. ???? That isn't to say this book didn't have it's good points. Cool cover. It's short with relatively slow pacing, but because of its length the pacing sort of matches. The ending is bittersweet as hell and is easily remembered. It's not boring. The whole witch thing was semi-cool. And I did love the dancing bear :) Oh, and even if this is psychically guessed on my part - it sets up the mode for an excellent series to come. (Please God, please God...I have at least five more of these on my shelf to read!) I have a hard decision to make - the next book I own is book four, not book 2. I either wait out till I get the second and follow in order, or just start at four and see if I like that one better, reading in order from there up. I just don't know yet.

Review # 2 was written on 2013-12-10 00:00:00 Kevin Farrens Discovered this series of books quite by accident. In my teens I was getting a weekly allowance from my parents which I used to go to the movies (the price of a ticket was quite cheap back in the 60ies and 70ies) and for buying books. Some spend all their money on shoes, designer clothes and cosmetics, I spent mine on books though I did buy a lot of cosmetics and clothes. Shoes not so much as the very expensive high heel pumps left me in pain all the time so I found instead a brand of shoes though fashionable and pretty which were affordable and comfortable, Naturalizer. I was browsing for new books to read at Classic Book Stores in Place Ville Marie (now long closed the book stores I mean) when I found this book. The character of Margred was soon taking me into quite the adventure. I totally became fascinated by her and sad at some point that though the man she loves and to whom she bears a child would abandon her. Then we kind of find out that she's a witch. Now we're talking! The falcon women as we will find out are all born with a certain birth mark and all of them will be either good or evil. Margred is evil: what a shocker! I enjoyed reading that first novel so much I went back to get all the others and to my surprise couldn't find them. I actually had to write to the publisher and order them from the UK. Books were unexpensive back then as you could get one for $0.95 and I do believe the whole collection costs me less than $20.00 Another favorite in the collection is the story of Regina Falcon.