This is her routine, which she begrudgingly follows, as there are things that cannot be questioned because they are based on truths. Ever since her father’s death a few years before, her life has been one of simple routine: helping her sister to bed and telling her stories learnt from her father waking up to observe her subdued and sad mother baking the bread that feed the village and becoming the ghost of the woman she used to be when her father was alive greeting her uncle on his daily visit as he oversees and protects the family getting by, waiting to eventually marry a local boy and assume her place in the social hierarchy of Near, doing whatever is expected from a girl. Lexi lives with her mother and baby sister in the village of Near. And I am so happy that I was totally right about this one. Why did I read this book: It was purely because of the blurb – I liked the sound of it, it appeared to be just the sort of book I tend to love.
How did I get this book: ARC from NetGalley Something tells her she can trust him.Īs the hunt for the children intensifies, so does Lexi’s need to know-about the witch that just might be more than a bedtime story, about the wind that seems to speak through the walls at night, and about the history of this nameless boy. Still, he insists on helping Lexi search for them. The next night, the children of Near start disappearing from their beds, and the mysterious boy falls under suspicion. These are the truths that Lexi has heard all her life.īut when an actual stranger-a boy who seems to fade like smoke-appears outside her home on the moor at night, she knows that at least one of these sayings is no longer true. The wind is lonely, and always looking for company.Īnd there are no strangers in the town of Near. If the wind calls at night, you must not listen.
The Near Witch is only an old story told to frighten children.
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