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The Once and Future Witches by Alix E. Harrow

59 reviews

ok7a's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark reflective slow-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? No

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fire/Fire injury, Death, Death of parent, Murder, Sexism, and Misogyny

Moderate: Grief, Torture, Child abuse, and Hate crime

Minor: Racism, Sexual harassment, Suicide, Transphobia, and Abortion

kitausu's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring 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

A little slow at the beginning, but overall amazing! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Violence, Fire/Fire injury, Sexual harassment, and Death of parent

Moderate: Transphobia, Alcoholism, and Child abuse

annikareads_'s review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Sexual harassment, Sexual assault, Pregnancy, Sexism, and Misogyny

theworldof11's review against another edition

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Fire/Fire injury, Blood, Animal cruelty, Torture, Sexism, Pregnancy, Misogyny, and Police brutality

Moderate: Lesbophobia, Stalking, Sexual harassment, Child abuse, Racism, Outing, Alcohol, and Abandonment

Minor: Alcoholism

ehmannky's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional 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

4.5

I am always incredibly hesitant to start this book because it felt like "witches and the suffrage movement" was a kind of proposed plot that would go real fast into white girlboss feminism. However, I was pleasantly surprised by this book. There's way more witchcraft than suffrage, and even when we do dip into suffrage Harrow takes care to include women of color, poor women, and immigrants and how their lives are worse than the white, middle class characters of the book. Like, when a very minor Native character tells one of the white leads that their knowledge is not for them I was so delighted. I loved the story of three sisters mending their lives and struggling for a better world, and the two romance subplots are well-integrated. Each of the sisters has a great character arc and I loved the ending. 

My main qualm came from Harrow changing a bunch of male authors to women (like, the Brothers Grimm become the Sisters Grimm or for some reason Dante's Inferno is about a witch who walks through hell). I don't know, it felt out of place in a world that is filled with the same misogyny as our own to have all of these women authors. I felt it would have been more thematically fitting to just have spent the time focusing on women writing in books or other marginalia than just being like "oh, it was Charlotte Perrault, not Charles Perrault who wrote these fairy tales!" I do have to admit that every single time Harrow did this I rolled my eyes because it just seemed silly and so out of place with the rest of her world. But other than this, I thought it was great and it surpassed my expectations. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Murder, Violence, Sexism, Pregnancy, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Death of parent and Misogyny

Minor: Slavery, Sexual harassment, Homophobia, Racism, and Emotional abuse

laisai's review against another edition

adventurous dark inspiring mysterious 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Classism, Xenophobia, Sexual harassment, Pregnancy, Misogyny, Fire/Fire injury, Domestic abuse, Cursing, Child abuse, Sexism, Religious bigotry, Racism, Lesbophobia, Forced institutionalization, and Emotional abuse

Minor: Abandonment, Abortion, Child abuse, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Hate crime, Misogyny, Pregnancy, Blood, Colonisation, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Genocide, Grief, Physical abuse, Racism, Religious bigotry, Sexual assault, Sexism, Slavery, Transphobia, Violence, and Xenophobia

copyright1999's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful reflective tense slow-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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Misogyny, Violence, Blood, Death, Police brutality, and Torture

Moderate: Abandonment, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Forced institutionalization, Police brutality, Racism, Sexism, Sexual harassment, Transphobia, Lesbophobia, Misogyny, and Physical abuse

Minor: Ableism, Dysphoria, and Abortion

rachelgronbach's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful inspiring

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Abandonment, Child abuse, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Misogyny, Racism, Sexism, and Sexual harassment

geilie's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful sad 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? It's complicated

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny, Police brutality, Pregnancy, Religious bigotry, Sexism, Torture, and Violence

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Forced institutionalization, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Outing, Racism, and Sexual harassment

meresand's review

adventurous dark emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious 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

4.75

I lived this book. Such a beautiful story full of magic, mystery, hope, and enduring sisterhood. It examines witchcraft and the power of women in a patriarchal society in a new and refreshing way that left me thinking and wanting more.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Abortion, Racism, Violence, and Sexual harassment