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Green Witch

2010Alice Hoffman

1.9/5

This is more like lazy fan fiction from a fan who wanted to continue writing about the characters that left in Green Angel. Also, a fantasy novel shouldn’t mean that all the rules can be broken. There must be some believability in it. Too many things were convenient and way too safe for a place that’s supposed to be in a dangerous post-apocalyptic setting. This is also clearly a sequel that cannot be read alone or out of order, so every time Green kept talking about her past, it felt like that made up for 50% of the book which we already knew about.Spoilers ahead.Diamond gave me the impression that he was just a friend in Green Angel. Apparently, in Green Witch he is the romantic love of her life she has been dying for…which would have been perfectly fine if it didn’t seem so unbelievable later. She finally decides to search for him and the process ends up being so easy it's laughable.Everything else is convenient from here: she easily finds and frees Diamond and his family, he somehow found a way to tattoo himself in prison to match her tattoos too, learned to speak her language fluently, locks two guards into a cell easily without any mention of how he fought them, and knows where Heather is when he didn’t even know who she was in the first book. This is all within three pages.When Green easily breaks through the THREE locks on Heather's cell it made no sense to me. The locks were implying how dangerous Heather was, but there was no explanation for why they found her as such a threat, especially when she has a baby she gave birth to during her imprisonment. And security really sucks for this place so the prison doesn't even seem so dangerous. Of course, the first thing Heather says when Green frees her is “I didn’t give him a name.” Now Green can name a baby which is somehow just like Green. It sounds more like the baby is her daughter, not Heather's.Something that also bothered me was that there was a woman who lived in a high tower that you could only reach by climbing a rickety ladder. Her home is so high that Green says that she passed through a CLOUD. Then after the woman feeds Green and they have a conversation, it’s revealed that the woman turned BLIND on the day of the fire a year ago. What the heck? So this woman lost her eyesight and somehow managed to travel and make a home in a high tower post-accident? How did she even live up there with no sight anyway? And how did she come down the tower to visit Green at the end? Don't tell me it's because she can see the future, because being psychic doesn't mean it grants you eyesight to navigate your way around. I can’t even say this is a minor nuisance because the book is barely 130 pages with a small number of words per page, so this woman takes up a good amount of length for me to point it out. And lastly, Green became an omniscient narrator, which didn't work for me. She knew what people were thinking and we have no choice but to know she is correct. So what was unique about this book? Nothing. Green makes customized paper for each person to hear their story and finds all the characters that left in the first book. That's pretty much it. I don't see any character development. I mean, what development could there be if everything worked out perfectly with NO explanations? There's no conflict because it was all so easy.I am so disappointed in this sequel. Of course, I'm happy to know there's a happy ending--I loved the characters in Green Angel. My only issue with this book was the poor writing quality.The only reason why I think it deserves a star is that I'm glad there was a closure that all of the fans wanted, which is a pretty bias thing for me to do for rating a book. I can't even hate this because I can feel at peace about what happened to everyone afterward. I would have given this 0 stars if it ruined everything.I actually wouldn't discourage a fan to read it because this is all about a happy closure. All it does it give answers to those who are curious about where the characters ended up. Unfortunately, the problem for me is that it felt like a joke. I would not recommend it to a fan who wants the literary quality to be just as good as Green Angel.

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