Status Updates From The Trial of Magdalena Over...

Love interest is getting fleshed out, but Magda hasn't changed since page 1. Still not sure what the plot is apart from "counting down a year until FMC faces trial for dark witchcraft". Things happen, but they don't seem to affect anything or have any relation to Magda or her trial. Everything feels like filler except the few letters from bestie/lawyer back home.

Almost done!

I'm so mad at this book right now because I don't know how to feel. I need a minute.

Struggled with the first half.
Desperately sucked into the back half.

Big mad at the ending if this is a standalone...
locked in if there's going to be a sequel.

It's 12:59 a.m. and I just need a minute... 🫠

Tribunal is the most interesting thing so far but that's because it's just random npc melodrama putting their cases to the court. I bet we never see any of those characters again. Maybe the pregnant lady, but I was tired of the misogynistic society setting before I even began reading, so I'm not excited by the two-dozenth example of that in play. I also think the prose is getting more boring as the novel continues.

Nothing BAD so far (apart from horrible arc kindle formatting) but nothing I like either. Prose is slightly offputting, MC has yet to engage me, the love interest... exists, plot is slow & nothing exciting so far, & the combining a "salem witchtrial" world with Korean "duke of the north" fantasy setting so far feels wishy-washy. Magda's life before this sounds more exciting than anything we're getting in the present.

I want to stay up reading this book! I’m really getting into it