Witches, power abuse, and secrets. Amity Barrow is to be a saint, in her town they uphold traditions to keep the peace and to ward off the devil and that is by having saints... young girls who have not had their periods yet who are made to endure the abuses of the people as “saints” and keep the devil away by absolving the people of their sins and hearing their confessions. All Amity has ever wanted was to be a saint, a godly girl making her father proud... yet soon she discovers a secret group of witches with their own powers as her own powers begin to grow... and there is also the issue that more and more village men are dying and being murdered. Amity wants to save her village from the Devil and she thinks by learning the way of the witches she can save her home from the Devil... yet these women begin to open her eyes to reality of what is going on in her village, to the abuse of young girls, to the brain washing, the patriarchal abuses and the wrongs women here have suffered. Amity begins to question who she can trust and what she can believe in. Yet the more she begins to understand what is happening the more she wants to turn a blind eye and deny it, yet when events occur that push her to accept the truth and to commit her own sinful acts, Amity will find herself living with a new name, Rage. Amity will have to save her sister and her town, but in a way she never expected while overturning everything she has ever believed in. First off let me just say this book had everything I was suppose to like: horror, witches, sapphic romance.... but what I got was a book that deals with religious trauma, family abuse, physical abuse, sexual abuse, and went on for about 200 pages too long. This story dragged, and I found myself getting more and more irritated by Amity and the overall flow of the story. For a 500 page book, it should have been about 300. I found myself getting bored and irritated and constantly not wanting to pick up the book again but doing so so I could just get it over with. If you’re looking for an actual good witchy story with girl power, overturning the power abuse, overturning beliefs and religious abuse as well and deals with the devil with a little bit of romance then I HIGHLY recommend Slewfoot by Brom. This one definitely missed the mark for me unfortunately.