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emmalouisepip 's review for:
The Once and Future Witches
by Alix E. Harrow
Using CAWPILE this came out at a four star. Which surprised me a little as I thought a high three. But the character and atmosphere rating probably caused it to hit four.
After DNFing The Ten Thousand Doors of January I was a little worried going into this. However I definitely enjoyed this much more. I kind of want to give the other book a second chance.
Part one of this was slow paced. Which made me struggled a tiny bit. But once I got past that I flew through the rest of the book.
Despite flying through it I did find myself getting a little bored at times. Feeling like the story wasn’t progressing fast enough. The writing being so beautiful helped me here.
At its core the story is about sisterhood, protecting each other. Justice and fighting for women’s rights. Which I loved. Seeing how much the sisters care for each other. No matter what they believed about the past.
I didn’t think I was emotionally invested in any of the characters. However a death at the end got me a little emotional. Probably because the character sacrificed themselves to protect their family. How in that moment they showed no fear. Knowing their family would be safe.
The cast is deserve which going into this I didn’t know it had LGBTQ rep including a trans character. Although the trans character is briefly mentioned as being trans towards the end of the book.
The use of fairytale and children’s stories for the spells interested me. I’m not sure if that’s a normal witch story thing as I don’t read many. But I liked it anyway.
I will definitely pick up something else by Harrow in the future. I’d be interested to see her work in a series.
Trigger Warnings: (copied from Author’s answer on Goodreads)
Child abuse, both physical and psychological; parental death; arrest and imprisonment; mind control; pregnancy and childbirth, including forced hospitalization; racism; sexism; homophobia, both external and internalized; threat of sexual assault, averted; torture (mostly off-the-page, but alluded to); execution (attempted); child abandonment; major character death.
After DNFing The Ten Thousand Doors of January I was a little worried going into this. However I definitely enjoyed this much more. I kind of want to give the other book a second chance.
Part one of this was slow paced. Which made me struggled a tiny bit. But once I got past that I flew through the rest of the book.
Despite flying through it I did find myself getting a little bored at times. Feeling like the story wasn’t progressing fast enough. The writing being so beautiful helped me here.
At its core the story is about sisterhood, protecting each other. Justice and fighting for women’s rights. Which I loved. Seeing how much the sisters care for each other. No matter what they believed about the past.
I didn’t think I was emotionally invested in any of the characters. However a death at the end got me a little emotional. Probably because the character sacrificed themselves to protect their family. How in that moment they showed no fear. Knowing their family would be safe.
The cast is deserve which going into this I didn’t know it had LGBTQ rep including a trans character. Although the trans character is briefly mentioned as being trans towards the end of the book.
The use of fairytale and children’s stories for the spells interested me. I’m not sure if that’s a normal witch story thing as I don’t read many. But I liked it anyway.
I will definitely pick up something else by Harrow in the future. I’d be interested to see her work in a series.
Trigger Warnings: (copied from Author’s answer on Goodreads)
Child abuse, both physical and psychological; parental death; arrest and imprisonment; mind control; pregnancy and childbirth, including forced hospitalization; racism; sexism; homophobia, both external and internalized; threat of sexual assault, averted; torture (mostly off-the-page, but alluded to); execution (attempted); child abandonment; major character death.