A review by bookish_bell
Weyward by Emilia Hart

dark sad medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Diverse cast of characters? No

1.0

The way this book graphically portrays every traumatic event a woman could imagine enduring throughout the centuries(public humiliation and witch trial, incest rape and emotional abuse, and extreme domestic abuse and control). All under the guise of telling a magical feminist story, but these women were powerless in their circumstances until discovering they had a magical connection to nature.

Also, the narrative lacks any real story and the only connection these women share is that they are victims of abuse. It hardly seems believable that the best outcome after centuries of women experiencing these atrocities and delivering magical justice to the horrible men inflicting pain on them  is for the latest generation to be Kate, perhaps the most helpless victim of them all. 
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