The Lost Witch

Our Review

Initially when I read The Lost Witch by Melvin Burgess I struggled to get into it but after a few chapters I began to enjoy reading it. The Lost Witch is a young adult book and is exactly the kind of book I would have enjoyed as a young adult.

Bea is beginning to hear and see things that no one else can – creatures, voices, visions. Then strangers visit Bea and tell her she is a witch and she is being hunted. Her parents think she is hallucinating and needs help. Bea just wants to get on with her life, and to get closer to Lars, a mysterious young man she met at the skate park. But her life is in danger and the question is – who can she trust?

When The Lost Witch begins the Wilder family were on their way back from a disappointing family holiday in North Yorkshire. They come across a hunting party chasing three hares and that is when something happens that changes Bea’s life forever. One of the hares takes shelter in their car and Bea swears she hears it talk.

“The hare turned its head sideways to look up at her. Bea looked into it’s eye and she saw…Worlds upon worlds within worlds. “

Bea quickly convinces herself that she is seeing things even when a young girl named Silvis tells her that she is a witch.

“She knew magic did not and could not exist.”

Bea doesn’t really know what to think especially when she is told about The Hunt and The Huntsman, both of whom are after he particular magical skills.

“Most of The Hunt that actually get to see, the ones who chase us down they’re nearly all golems – people who’ve had their spirits stolen and replaced with something else. Sometimes it’s the spirit of another person but more often of an animal. “

When Bea talks to her parents about her views and the potential danger she is in they are worried that she has some kind of mental illness and Bea worries the same.

The Lost Witch was easy to read and something I think fans of the genre will like.

Our Final Rating...

Sat, 21st July 2018