Book Review: Human Rites by Juno Dawson ★★★☆☆

After the pretty good Her Majesty's Royal Coven, the excellent Shadow Cabinet, 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) 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.