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A review by snowbenton
The Once and Future Witches by Alix E. Harrow
5.0
"But it's not legal. It can't be. I wasn't the best student but Miss Hurston made us recite the Constitution in second grade."
"The Constitution? What, exactly, do you think the Constitution is? A magical spell? A dragon, perhaps, that will swoop down to defend you in your most desperate hour? I assure you it has only ever been a piece of paper, and it has only ever applied to a very few persons."
To be reading a book about burning witches while living in a country where it doesn't seem at all farfetched, is a special kind of hell. This took me weeks to read because my heart would grow so heavy I would have to put it down. This is a powerful book about sisterhood and womanhood and magic, and I wish more than anything that it wasn't so relevant.
In the end it's still your life or your freedom, your sister or your daughter, and someone still has to pay.
"The Constitution? What, exactly, do you think the Constitution is? A magical spell? A dragon, perhaps, that will swoop down to defend you in your most desperate hour? I assure you it has only ever been a piece of paper, and it has only ever applied to a very few persons."
To be reading a book about burning witches while living in a country where it doesn't seem at all farfetched, is a special kind of hell. This took me weeks to read because my heart would grow so heavy I would have to put it down. This is a powerful book about sisterhood and womanhood and magic, and I wish more than anything that it wasn't so relevant.
In the end it's still your life or your freedom, your sister or your daughter, and someone still has to pay.