Woman of Blood & Bone by Annie AndersonMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
Immortal Witch
Max is over 400 years old. She was cast out of her coven at age 14 by her mother for something beyond her control and was never trained in her witchcraft. She cannot die. She has died in many horrible, traumatising and painful ways, but she always wakes up again, and she doesn’t know why.
She now lives in Denver and works with her best friend Striker in their tattoo shop. Striker is also long-lived and is empathic, which is obviously quite a stressful state to be in all the time.
One day a man comes in to be tattooed and his very pregnant girlfriend is left outside with Striker who realises that she is in trouble. Max puts the guy to sleep and they set about trying to help the young woman. Except, the man isn’t exactly a man.....
I haven’t read the series before this one and feel there are gaps in my knowledge about these characters, which I find annoying. It’s frustrating to have snippets thrown at me that I feel that the author expected me to know, except I don’t. I wish authors would write in their blurbs that there is a series before the one you are about to start, so you at least have a heads up.
Apart from the missing information, the plot was really interesting. The characters are fascinating, especially Max. She has had some truly horrible stuff happen to her, mostly as a result of showing her magic to help others and she still keeps trying to help.
Striker is more of an enigma. He seems a little weaker emotionally because of enduring the never-ending battering of other people’s emotions. It seems to me that the relationship is a little bit skewed because of this.
I liked the world-building and plot was good but I feel that there is a lot more that needs to be shared before I can form a proper opinion of the whole series.
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