This was a really sweet story. Just as slow and dull as the first two, but with a lot more heart. I really like the way they used folklore in this, especially with the apple thief granting her favours in return for food.

I swear the effects are getting worse. The evil fae bit was almost hard to watch. The teen in the wig was also pretty terrible, especially as the wig didn't even match the description we were given. In close ups on Olive you could see her reading from a teleprompter, which took me out of the story a little.

The Child acting isn't great, and that wig is awful, but the story itself is sweet.

Some more classics of witch folklore are those of the Fey and the Familiar, and I think they're blended together really nicely here. You get the image of the trickster fey, just there to cause mischief, here stealing apples, as well as that of the darker fey stealing children. You also touch lightly on the idea of fey laws, with one being forced into the role of a familiar for acting against the other. It's a really nice look at the folklore, touching on everything it needs to for the story without feeling at all rushed.

There's a genuine heart to this story as well, the fondness with which Hawthorne talks about her cat, her sounding sad as it goes missing, and the reveal that after the brief respite, returning home, her familiar returns again in the guise of a new cat.

It all just sort of works for me... apart from the child acting and the wig