![]() ![]() I did find, however, that she grew on me and I quite liked her by the end. ![]() Nan, who is bullied because she’s named after a famous witch, can also be judgy even towards the people who helped her. I initially had sympathy for Charles, who was clearly disliked by everyone, but he has a very strong hatred for most things that wears one down. That the boarding school is nasty, however, is fitting because many of these children are nasty. ![]() However, this boarding school is closer to what Roald Dahl went through instead of the charming schools that Enid Blyton writes about. If, like me, you grew up reading boarding school stories, you may be pleased to know this story takes place in a boarding school and the children (some of them orphans as their parents were witches or aided witches) are constantly together. As the students start to turn on two of the most unpopular of their own – Nan and Charles, strange, some might even say magical, things begin to happen. Given that witches are banned and burned at the stake in this particular world, that is a heavy accusation indeed. ![]() In Witch Week, one of the students in Class 6B is accused of being a witch. I had every intention of reading the second book in the Chrestomanci series next, but after reading Re-Enchanted, I had the urge to just read Witch Week, which has piqued my interest ever since I read Reflections by Diana Wynne Jones. ![]()
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