The Witch and the Huntsman (The Witches Series #3)
by J.R. Rain, Rod Kierkegaard, Jr. (Co-author) 23
4.14 of 5 stars
4.14 ·

The Witch and the Huntsman
Mix one wicked sorceress who bathes in the blood of young women to stay young, a ski-lodge full of cannibals, and a triad of soul-mate witches (not all of whom are actually alive), with a twisty plot in a Stephen King-esq winter hotel, and you have J.R. Rain’s The Witch and the Huntsman.
The third in the author’s Witch Series, the book is a fun Saturday morning read. Told in the first-person voice of the series’ protagonist, Allison Lopez, the story follows Allison from her job at a psychic hot-line to a creepy hotel in the mountains of Oregon. But Allison actually is a psychic—and a witch—and friend and food source to a vampire.
Like the other two books in the series, this one follows a typical plot formula—but this does not feel formulaic or contrived. All things considered, I recommend the book and the series – it has not fulfilled my wish for another Sookie Stackhouse book (the characters are not as well-developed, and the author does not do his female characters as well as he could), but I did find the books a really entertaining read.



I'm an ex-private investigator now writing full-time in the Pacific Northwest, where I live in a small house on a small island with my small dog, Sadie, who has more energy than Robin Williams.

As a kid I was always making stuff: skates, skateboards, skimboards, skis, sleds, clothing, furniture, wood carvings, Easter baskets, comic books, you name it. I was the mother of all nerds. Anyway, I think I was searching for the one thing I wanted to keep on making for the rest of my life. Then one day I discovered Choose Your Own Adventure books. Remember those? You as the reader were asked to make choices for the characters. Choose Your Own Adventures were a lot of fun and I just had to make my own. And so I did, writing three of them, and I've been hooked on writing ever since. (Just think, I could have been hooked on making Easter baskets.)