The Witch and the Vampire

By: Francesca Flores

Narrated by: Bailey Carr, Mary Helen Gallucci

Ava and Kaye used to be best friends—until one night two years ago when vampires broke through the magical barrier protecting their town and, in the ensuing attack, Kaye’s mother was killed and Ava was turned into a vampire. Since then, Ava has been trapped in her house. Her mother Eugenia needs her: Ava still has her witch powers, and Eugenia must take them in order to hide that she's a vampire as well.

Desperate to escape her confinement and stop her mother's plans to destroy the town, Ava must break out, flee to the forest, and seek help from the vampires who live there. When there is another attack, she sees her opportunity and escapes.

Kaye, now at the end of her training as a Flame witch, is ready to fulfill her duty of killing any vampires that threaten the town, including Ava. On the night that Ava escapes, Kaye follows her and convinces her to travel together into the forest, while secretly planning to turn her in. Ava agrees, hoping to rekindle their old friendship and the romantic feelings she'd started to have for Kaye before that terrible night. But with monstrous trees that devour humans whole, vampires who attack from above, and Ava’s stepfather tracking her, the woods are full of danger.

As they travel deeper into the forest, Kaye questions everything she thought she knew. The two are each other's greatest threat—and also their only hope, if they want to make it through the forest unscathed.

©2023 Francesca Flores (P)2023 Dreamscape Media

nice little read

I wasn't expecting too much so I'll go ahead and say that but the book did exceed my expectations and I really enjoyed it I'm hoping there's a sequel and the performance was pretty good also

It’s got a great cover

I preordered this book after a TikTok recommendation that kept coming up on my feed.. It was a very interesting set up, a world where witches and vampires are constantly battling each other. But the story was a little lackluster. The narrators sounded so similar that I thought it was one person and couldn’t keep track of which MC was which. They also had a great Microphone because it picked up every deep breath they told at the end of every sentence, about half way through my brain was finally able to ignore it. I also fill that it rushed the ending and didn’t really fill out the characters that much, they didn’t have much depth. I think if the author wanted to do a second book it’s feasible with how open ended they left everything but they would need to flesh out the MC more.

New concept of vampires

I liked how all the details tied in to make sense in the end and the serious character development throughout the story. A good read.

It was pretty okay.

The world building was very interesting and the characters in a vacuum were well fleshed out, but the way they interacted was forced and it felt that the story focused more on the idea of twists than the dynamic evolution of her protagonists. I feel like my frustrations come to a head when the book shoves one final twist at the end of the book that I think in design was meant to make you excited for a sequel that more just made me disappointed. I was rooting for the book but I think more than anything else I was fatigued by it.