I have C.C. Finlay’s blog on my LiveJournal f-list so I’ve been hearing about The Patriot Witch and the other books in his Traitor to the Crown series for a while now. When his publisher offered it as a free download I took the opportunity to find out how Finlay executed his idea.
What if witches were involved on both sides of the American Revolution and were able to have a hand in the outcome of the war? Call me prejudiced or conditioned, but I thought the main witch character in The Patriot Witch would be a woman. To discover Proctor Brown, a minuteman, is the title witch was a pleasant surprise.
Finlay weaves fictional characters with real people and events. The real people are military and historical figures. Proctor Brown symbolizes the average man. He’s a farmer’s son in his 20s with goals. Proctor would like to get married and expand the farm into the cattle business. The war necessitates changes to his plans and he finds himself involved with witches.
The first hundred pages are slow but Finlay is packing in a lot of cultural information and introducing multiple characters that return later in the story. As the pace picks up, it’s a difficult book to put down. It has spies, fights to the death, and even zombies.
When all is said and done, Finlay executed the idea well and leaves the reader wanting to find out what happens to Proctor Brown.
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