![]() ![]() Harrow brings all this in her newest novel, never shying away from the dark detail of the very real abuse, torture, and cruelty of the historic time of witch hunting.Ī hefty read with ambitious goals – combining numerous elements and plot lines: the rights and powers of women, estranged family, witching, spells, observational commentary on our current political environment, fantasy, magic, the suffragist movement, and the unbendable power of women raising women. ![]() I love elements of spelling and casting, I love herbs, plants, and the respect of nature, crinkling old pages found within leather tomes, libraries of words, animal familiars, women supporting women in unified and true sisterhood, all cocooned in a world of danger, peril, and the fight for women’s power. This is my kind of witchy read, of which I am admittedly ridiculously picky. But once the suffragist chapter is replaced with the Sisters of Avalon, the story really solidified. For part one I did find the plight of reawakening the ways of witching to war with the plot elements of the suffragist movement. It can be a lot and it did take me some time to warm up/wrap my head around all the chatter. Harrow harvests a lot of varying voices, sociopolitical juxtaposition, and historical precedence, with elements of fantasy, estranged family, found sisterhood, and, of course, magic all wrapped up in her signature web of poetic writing and detail. ![]()
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