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The Once and Future Witches by Alix E. Harrow

6 reviews

kylaeduff's review

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fire/Fire injury, Self harm, Suicide, Torture, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Blood, Bullying, Child abuse, Abortion, Animal cruelty, Death, Death of parent, Grief, Torture, Religious bigotry, Forced institutionalization, Confinement, and Sexism

Minor: Transphobia and Vomit

cassiopeia_lucky_fowkes's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective relaxing sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

This book is AMAZING I have read it twice now, I love it so much! 

You end up falling in love with the characters like they are you own Sisters (note the capital S) 
Only read if you are okay with crying for ten minutes at various parts of the book (this happened to me both times I read it!)

It has an amazing plot with lots of plot twists that grip and pull you into the story and dont let you go until its done

I wish this book had a sequal!

Also the writing style is amazing, there is the perfect amount of description to allow you to imagine sort of the more fine details in how a character looks for example but also gives you a good base 
the settings are also described in this way

I cant tell you how much I love this book tbh it changed the way I look at everything and changed my life too!

I highly recommend to any feminist out there.

Let the fire inside your heart continue to burn and let this book help it to burn brighter with fury, love, hate and hope.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny, Emotional abuse, Abortion, Cursing, Alcohol, Death, Toxic friendship, Blood, Pregnancy, Body shaming, Lesbophobia, Police brutality, Bullying, Domestic abuse, Hate crime, Homophobia, Murder, Physical abuse, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, Gore, Medical content, Racial slurs, Racism, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Toxic relationship, Sexual violence, Suicide, Transphobia, Violence, Vomit, and Xenophobia

I put all the content warnings in graphic because i dont have time to sort them! Also some are so minor they are only one sentence or word

anniereads221's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Murder, Gaslighting, Abortion, Homophobia, Grief, Medical content, Misogyny, Sexism, Violence, Vomit, Injury/Injury detail, Child abuse, Kidnapping, Racism, Sexual assault, Slavery, and Torture

emfass's review

adventurous dark emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

This book. Oh my god, this book. 

I have been in a horrible reading slump for two months, grumpy about everything and not feeling pulled to pick up any book that I was trying to get through (except for an audiobook buddy reread of the Hunger Games series). Then my women's book club picked this for our October read, since the host wanted something witchy.

This book was everything I didn't know I wanted. It blasted my reading slump to smithereens, and I feel so deeply grateful and in awe. The prose. THE PROSE. I cannot. Maybe this is what helped break my reading slump, it was so lush and poetic and just stunningly gorgeous and different from anything I've read in a long time. The story interweaves sisterhood, feminism, women's suffrage, collective power, and magic steeped in fairy tales and folklore and "women's work" and the ways that women have to move through the world in order to survive.

The book is set in 1893, in a world and timeline that very clearly references events in our own but changes things a smidge (for example: referencing Eugene Debs and the Railway Union strike, and the "Square Shirtwaist Fire" that is clearly meant to represent the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, which happened in 1911). But it was oh so clear to me that it was written in the aftermath of #MeToo and Trump's election; there are certain passages that are hauntingly relatable today. Harrow drops in plenty of little moments that we as women have to deal with every damn day and calls out the injustice of it all.

I will say that I feel somewhat conflicted about the ending, and look forward to processing it with the other folks in my book club this weekend. But this is hands-down one of my favorite reads of 2021.

I listened to this on audio and narrator Gabra Zackman is a dream. She shows such love for the prose, and creates distinct voices for the (many many) characters while showing them a lot of love as well. 

My one small complaint about the audiobook is that during the chapters where fairy tales are retold, there is underscoring throughout the chapter, and the mix felt really imbalanced - I struggled to hear the narration over the music, which irked me. (I am a sound designer by trade, and also have some auditory/information processing issues with things like this.)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Confinement, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Misogyny, Pregnancy, Sexism, and Violence

Moderate: Child abuse, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Homophobia, Lesbophobia, Outing, Racism, Torture, and Transphobia

Minor: Abortion and Vomit

mothman19's review

adventurous dark emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Sexism, Pregnancy, Misogyny, Forced institutionalization, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Medical content, Physical abuse, Violence, Death, Murder, and Suicide

Moderate: Confinement, Grief, Medical trauma, Physical abuse, Police brutality, Sexual harassment, Slavery, and Torture

Minor: Animal cruelty, Animal death, and Vomit

torrentsofhayl's review against another edition

adventurous emotional inspiring mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Forced institutionalization, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Abandonment, Child abuse, Violence, Transphobia, Torture, Pregnancy, Outing, Murder, Death of parent, Blood, and Animal cruelty

Minor: Abortion, Police brutality, Lesbophobia, Homophobia, Racism, Misogyny, and Vomit