 Critical reception to "Witches of East End" has been mostly positive, with "Entertainment Weekly" giving the book a rating of B+.The "Los Angeles Times" commented that the book was not perfect, but that it still managed to "cast a spell".Criticisms for the novel included a "clumsily executed resolution" and too much "arcane gobbledygook", while praise for the novel centered around the mixture of mythologies "gel[ling] magnificently" and de la Cruz's depiction of the Beauchamp women.