I got to admit, I was truly dissapointed with this book. The premise was what caught my eye and I expected an action-packed story, instead I got a boring, rather predictable plot with a forced love triangle. 
 One of the things that surprised me the most about The Witch Hunter was how little it was explained of the magic itself, it was more focused on the romance and, although I don't usually mind it, it is troublesome when the alledged main plot is put aside as if it doesn't matter. 
 Elizabeth is accussed of practicing witchcraft and as it is forbidden she is sentenced to death. There are two problems with this: 
 1. The reason why magic is so bad is not very well explained. A plague happened a few years ago and for some reason people think magic caused it. Why? How? It was more of a vague prejudice than anything else, especially considering how most witches didn't do anything wrong, and still the MC send them to burn at the stake without feeling sorry for it. 
 2. How is the thing with witches? Are you born a witch or do you have to learn it? This is something I believe we should know from the start, is Elizabeth being falsely accussed or is she secretly a witch? We don't learn this up until half the book and it's barely mentioned. Often enough we were given information that we were somehow suppossed to know but it was never mentioned. I think this book really needed more editing so it could have fixed that. 
 The love triangle is one of the most forced plot devices I have had to read in a while, which took me by surprise. What happened with letting a relationship developing slowly and naturally? Because by the second day the girl was laughing about everything Hot guy #2 was saying, gigling and having fun. I'm pretty sure he could have pointed to a leaf and Elizabeth would pee herself laughing. 
 I was baffled with the reason for which Elizabeth is convicted. Turns out the King has been forcing himself on her for a long time and she got pregnant. She knew she would be sent away if it was known and so she payed a witch to buy herbs that would cause an abortion. When she tells the story she is crying, of course she would! But later the relationship is somehow turned into a romantic relationship? She even says how she cared about him and didn't want to break his heart and... WHAT?! Even worse the rape is used to fuel the love triangle and make Hot guy #2 look good and that is not ok. 
 The story was boring, predictable and the characters were rather plain.