The Near Witch

By: V. E. Schwab

Narrated by: Heather Wilds

"The Near Witch" is only an old story told to frighten children.

If the wind calls at night, you must not listen. The wind is lonely and always looking for company.

There are no strangers in the town of Near.

These are the truths that Lexi has heard all her life.

But 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 next night, the children of Near start disappearing from their beds, and the mysterious boy falls under suspicion.

As 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.

Part fairy tale, part love story, Victoria Schwab's debut novel is entirely original yet achingly familiar: a song you heard long ago, a whisper carried by the wind, and a dream you won't soon forget.

This new edition of The Near Witch also included the in-universe short story "The Ash-Born Boy" and a never-before-seen introduction from V. E. Schwab.

©2019 V. E. Schwab (P)2019 Blackstone Audio, Inc.

VE Schwab is an expert story teller

This is technically VE's debut book that was removed from shelves after publication years ago. They re-released it and I enjoyed every minute of it. Especially the ending!!

Terrible narration ruins good story.

Imagine Emily Blunt doing a William Shatner impression for any entire book. V.E. Schwab is great but this was a struggle to finish, because of the narrator. I will have to read this one when I want to revisit it. It was a good story.

Great story! Annoying narration.

Thoroughly enjoyed this book. Great story line and plot with interesting and well developed characters. I nearly gave up on it because of the bad narration but stuck it out because the story was so good. The narrator had this weird habit or manner of over expressing every 4th or 5th word, or at the end of the sentence. It was very disturbing.

Beautifully written, but terrible narrator.

I love everything that VE Schwab has written and this book was no exception. Wonderful story, but the narrator almost ruined it. Her tone is flat and her cadence is so repetitive that it was annoying and distracting.

Victoria Always Had It!

Beautiful. Definitely a story worth reading if you aren't too interested in the overly intense.