Bewitching

So, I just started a book called Bewitching by Alex Flinn, who is also the author of Beastly. This book is a prequel to Beastly,  and it is all about the witch Kendra, who had put the curse on Beastly's main character. It tells her story before she cursed the boy, Kyle, from Beastly. She isn't like the other witches that are normally in stories, she is really nice. Most people think of witches as evil people who hate everyone, but Kendra isn't like that.

Kendra used to have little brother, who she would always care for and protect. When her parents died in a plague, she wasn't able to catch the disease, but her brother was. It was very likely that he would too. So then, Kendra left her life in that town, and ran off with her brother to protect him. She really cared for her brother and she never wanted anything to happen to him. She would do anything to help him.
When she and her brother ran off, they were starving, because they had no food. So when they came across a cottage, made of gingerbread, they were obviously delighted. They started eating the house and got captured by the witch inside. This is the story of Hansel and Gretel, with her brother as Hansel, and Kendra as Gretel. Anyway, the witch tied them up, and then left to go get supplies. The witch had a fence made of gingerbread children, who were real kids, baked into gingerbread. Kendra talked to one of those gingerbread children, who told her to use her power to help release her and her brother from the chairs, they were tied up in.
Kendra managed to release herself, but the witch walked in before she could help her brother. The witch told Kendra that she had amazing power, and that she would help Kendra use her power if she stayed with the witch. Kendra knew if she left, her brother would die, so she accepted the offer.When the witch offered, Kendra said, "I tolerated her  touch. I had to. 'And my brother?'" This quote shows that she had only accepted the offer to help her brother.
Kendra was really sweet, and She really cared about her brother, which goes against everything people say about witches.