Book Review: The Witch and the City by Jake Burnett

 

Trapped in a place of infinite forgetting, a witch must remember how to love.

The prison-city of Osylum floats in the midst of an endless abyss. The reclusive Lady rules it; distant, inscrutable, and never seen. Her will is imposed by the Wardens, eldritch creatures who tend to the convicts’ needs but also ruthlessly purge anyone who tries to escape.

Osylum’s newest inmate, the witch Oneirotheria, has no memory of who she is, where she came from, or why she is imprisoned. Instead, her mind is a mess of spells and lore and other people’s voices. The city mirrors her internal confusion; a jumble of broken buildings covered in hundreds of snippets of graffiti.

As Oneirotheria re-assembles her own shattered past (aided by a few inmates of dubious intent), she learns she may hold not just the key to escape, but the intertwined secrets of the city’s origin and a lost love that transcends countless lives. - from Booksirens.com

I received this eARC from Booksirens.com and am providing an unbiased review.

This was a different find for me. I usually would skip it fairly fast, but for some reason the synopsis sounded somewhat interesting, and after reading an excerpt, thought I would try reading something a little different than my normal material. The writing style was easy to read and understand, though for some reason it stood out as 'different' but I could not pinpoint as to what made it feel that way. Overall the story was interesting, and I felt it was interesting. I would more than  likely try other works from this author.