I’m not a big wine drinker myself, but I know a decent amount about it from my days as a waitress. I thought the concept of “vine witches” was so unique. I don’t want to go as far as calling her “morally grey”, but, she exemplifies a realness in her struggle to sort out her life. Elena’s circumstances were terrible, and she wanted to do something terrible in return. The Vine Witch is filled with realism and I loved that. Characters who you thought were bad turn out to be good and everything is happy. I read too many stories where everything wraps up neatly and precisely. I liked that Elena was an older character and I found her to be more relatable because of that. I don’t read a ton of adult fiction (I lean more toward YA), but I loved that this was a bit out of my usual genre. Well, technically, I listened to it as an audiobook, but I was really excited about the premise all the same. did an unboxing for this book a while back and it looked so interesting, I had to give it a read. Ok so this was entirely a “bookstagram made me do it” purchase. And she won’t rest until she can defy the evil powers that are still a threat to herself, Jean-Paul, and the ancient vine-witch legacy in the rolling hills of the Chanceaux Valley. To stay on and help the vines recover, she’ll have to hide her true identity, along with her plans for revenge against whoever stole seven winters of her life. But Elena knows a hex when she sees one, and the vineyard is covered in them.

Vigneron Jean-Paul Martel naively favors science over superstition, and he certainly doesn’t endorse the locals’ belief in witches. And the vineyard she was destined to inherit is now in the possession of a handsome stranger.

Now, after breaking the spell that confined her to the shallows of a marshland and weakened her magic, Elena is struggling to return to her former life.

Then the skill of divining harvests fell into ruin when sorcière Elena Boureanu was blindsided by a curse. A young witch emerges from a curse to find her world upended in this gripping fantasy set in turn-of-the-century France.įor centuries, the vineyards at Château Renard have depended on the talent of their vine witches, whose spells help create the world-renowned wine of the Chanceaux Valley.

The vine witch by luanne g smith