The story started both familiar and unusual: familiar because of the haunted cottage atmosphere: lone woman in a secluded cottage starts hearing and seeing strange things: creepy! Unusual was that the reader was told the history and likely explanation of the haunted cottage: two witches who lived there and were killed by the townsfolk; protection spells that have been put in the house to keep their ghosts from returning. So I was pretty much sure of what to expect, and for a while I was right. But then things turned more complex after the first witch returned - so much so that at the end the story almost lost me - at least it lost some of its former appeal. Still a solid witches' tale, but I felt there was too much weird action crammed into the end that choked the carefully built atmosphere.
(thanks to netgalley, the author, and the publisher for a copy of the book, all opinions are my own)