![]() ![]() Having magic around from the very beginning makes Evie’s transformation into the Sea Witch more believable and seamless. It’s a constant undercurrent through every scene and interaction, whether it’s called upon or not. Speaking of magic, it’s definitely the other major non-corporeal player in this story. We only read about others’ interactions with them. Aside from Evie (who, and this isn’t a spoiler, becomes the Sea Witch by the end of the novel), there’s only one other character that this novel shares with the classic fairy tale. ![]() In this novel, there were no tongue-in-cheek references or easily recognizable characters lurking in the background or randomly passing through a scene. I think that’s one of the things I enjoyed most about Sea Witch, honestly. That is, until a mysterious girl with her own fair share of secrets and the face of a dead girl shows up and changes everything.ĭoesn’t sound like a “Little Mermaid” retelling, does it? When one of them dies and the other has to fulfill his royal duties, Evie is left to find her own way in a world that hates her. Before she was the fiercest woman in the sea, Evie was a girl with a dark secret who loved her two best friends. Sea Witch doesn’t tell the story of the little mermaid but instead takes the reader back to the origins of the story’s mysterious and menacing sea witch. ![]() It’s a retelling unlike any I’ve read before. So imagine my excitement when I came across Sarah Henning’s Sea Witch. ![]()
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