Sometimes it’s not a question of right or wrong, but what you think you can get away with.
Dara Martin is an untrained witch with strong natural power, and while she knows she deserves formal education from the Academy, it will take years of grueling study and hard slog for this half-blood to be accepted by the Kin.
On the other hand, Willem the sorcerer may hold the secret to her lost mother, and he promises the fast-track to power beyond measure. What he proposes is illegal, and if she’s caught, her magic will be painfully bound forever.
I read the ignorant witch earlier and felt it was a fairly decent read. It introduced a world where Dara lives in a world where some people have magic and some don't and the normals don't have any knowledge of any magic. The magical people have to be specially trained. She is a half blood so has no training and is not aware of most of the things and most of the rules and somehow muddles along, manages to find a cult of magicians trying dangerous things, free her friends brother and get the magical community to acknowledge that she has magic and so should be trained.
The Arrogant Witch is so so bad I feel like I don't even know where to start. Dara has realised she has powers in book 1. She is intoxicated with them. Thinks that she is special. She is lazy doesn't want to do anything and keeps thinking she can figure it out. For starters the background is she has to stucy to complete her semester, is weak in maths and needs to write an essay. The entire book she keeps skipping school, is planning to copy the maths test off someone and doesn't do any work on her essay is kind of like how the whole book is. Dara is a completely 1 dimensional character who has no perspective, doesn't think of anyone, doesn't do any work and keeps messing up things for everyone.
Hugh gives her books to read for her magic training. later Dara flips through them and says there are no pictures !! and dumps them. I was wondering if the author was trying to portray a 7 yr old or a 16 yr old. Which educational curriculum for 16,17 yr olds has books full of pictures.
Hugh has a conversation with her where he tells her that "She is arrogant and if her arrogance is not checked , she might have to face consequences". She hears the dialogue but doesn't listen and continues in the same manner.
The biggest plot hole I felt was the 'coin'. If the coin was so important to her why didn't she take it in part 1. Now in part 2 she is willing to commit any number of crimes to get the coin.
Book 2 is so far below book 1 that I for one am not continuing with the series Willem Hugh
So Dara is a half witch and wants to be as strong as a full witch. She doesn't recognize her own arrogance. Because of that, she ends up with a sorcerer who was kicked out of his school for cheating. She believes him when he said he'd help her, and ends up in a big mess. She may be the main character in the book, but she's not a heroine.
She is a difficult main character to like as the title suggests. Consumed by jealousy and anger, looking for shortcuts in life, without having to put in the work, she is easily fooled and mislead. Hopefully the is building to a completely changed and wiser character