4.06 AVERAGE

dark emotional 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: Complicated
adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix

This was my first Grady Hendrix book, and I went in fully expecting to love it. A story about young girls being stripped of their power and reclaiming it through witchcraft? Hell yea! Unfortunately, I felt no satisfaction on that front, or any other.

The character development was lacking, I felt no real connection to anyone. The witchcraft was vanilla af. The pacing was annoyingly inconsistent. Zinnia and Hagar were by far more interesting characters than Fern, yet felt like a half baked attempt at diversity rather than fully realized people.

The gore was descent, and there were some genuinely cool horror moments.But honestly, just read Slewfoot.
dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced
dark emotional hopeful sad tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated
dark 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
adventurous 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
adventurous dark emotional funny inspiring 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: Complicated

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challenging dark emotional 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: Complicated
emotional inspiring reflective sad medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes