Witchlight by Susan DennardMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
It's finally here - the end of the Witchlands saga. To think that while Susan Dennard has increasingly detoured away from this series in recent years, it's still remained her signature work, her benchmark. And by sheer coincidence, the release cycles of the five main novels in this series (and of course the novella Sightwitch) almost perfectly coincided with the release cycles of each individual season of Stranger Things:
2016: Truthwitch, ST1
2017: Windwitch, ST2
2018: Sightwitch
2019: Bloodwitch, ST3
2021: Witchshadow
2022: ST4
2025: Witchlight, ST5
Just a fun little observation.
But here, with one of the longest gaps between sequels in the history of the YA sphere (comparable to Tomi Adeyemi's four and a half year gap between her second and third books), Dennard makes the return to the Witchlands well worth it with one final action-packed, fast-paced, multi-POV adventure for Safi, Iseult, Aeduan, Merik, Ryber, and all our many, many faves over this near decade for one of the biggest hits among the YA Cool Kids' Table.
To that end, I hereby bid this world ave atque vale, and from Dennard, I now eagerly await her next pivot back to YA mystery with four seasonally-themed standalone stories.
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