Kat's Reviews > The Witches of Santo Stefano

4.5/5. I really wanted this to be a 5 star read for me, but it just didn’t hit. Wendy Webb is known for gothic, atmospheric suspense with a good mystery. This was certainly gothic and atmospheric, with a bit of suspense and not really a whole lot of mystery. Don’t get me wrong, I loved it for what it was-a story of a woman researching her family history, and along the way, finding herself. But the parts of her family history that were a mystery to her, were being told to us in flashbacks, so we got the answers long before our main character did. One answer was never solved though, and it seems the audience learns so much more than the main character does, which can be off putting if you’re rooting for the MC to discover everything. Also, and maybe it’s just a me problem, but I was constantly mixing up Giovanni and Giuseppe. Overall, it was a wonderfully told story, but not what I went into expecting it to be.