After the pretty good Her Majesty’s Royal Coven (https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2023/01/book-review-her-majestys-royal-coven-juno-dawson/), the excellent Shadow Cabinet (https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2024/09/book-review-the-shadow-cabinet-by-juno-dawson-her-majestys-royal-coven-book-2/), the law of reverting to the mean hits the conclusion of Juno Dawson’s Witches of Hebden Bridge trilogy.

By now you know the tropes - Bitchy-Witches, 90s pop-culture references, and wry chapter titles. It’s all done well enough, the plot is a little twisty, the story entertaining, and the repeated mentions of Buffy are only a little too self-referential. The continual pop-culture references are a bit blunt and, in all honesty, feel like the book is trying too hard to anchor itself to other media.

If you enjoyed the other two books (and the Queen B prequel (https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/01/book-review-queen-b-by-juno-dawson/)) then this is more of the same.

The ending is powerful and, thankfully, closes off the world. This doesn’t feel like something which is going to be turned into a never-ending series of stories.

A good beach read but lacking some of the rage and inventiveness from the rest of the series.