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A review by mitzee
Small Town, Big Magic by Hazel Beck
adventurous
mysterious
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.25
Another book where a woman finds out she’s a witch at an older age (I read « Rewitched » by Lucy Jane Wood earlier this year) and is not immediately chuffed, which I find so annoying and not relatable. I would be pretty excited and happy but I guess some people may not - sure, they can exist I guess.
I also felt like the MC’s feminism was so dominant and weird because it had to be named and called out - it felt weird. Don’t get me wrong, I am a feminist but I don’t go around telling myself what’s right and wrong because of feminism.
Summary for myself:
Emerson, the main character is annoyingly confident. I was not really sure what the point of that was. Do confident people go around talking to themselves like that?
Anyway, she’s owns a book store in a fake town called St Ciprian - basically near St Louis since they talk about the confluence of the Mississippi and Missouri rivers. She finds out she’s a witch and that her friends are also all witches and she was mind wiped as a teenager. But things are coming back to her now.
Upon learning about this she is kind of annoying and cranky. I didn’t get the response. There’s an evil coven around, led by the most powerful witch, the one about mind wiped her.
She and her friend save the town from being flooded and then have to face off either the coven leaders. I assume there’s a second book.
I also felt like the MC’s feminism was so dominant and weird because it had to be named and called out - it felt weird. Don’t get me wrong, I am a feminist but I don’t go around telling myself what’s right and wrong because of feminism.
Summary for myself:
Anyway, she’s owns a book store in a fake town called St Ciprian - basically near St Louis since they talk about the confluence of the Mississippi and Missouri rivers. She finds out she’s a witch and that her friends are also all witches and she was mind wiped as a teenager. But things are coming back to her now.
Upon learning about this she is kind of annoying and cranky. I didn’t get the response. There’s an evil coven around, led by the most powerful witch, the one about mind wiped her.
She and her friend save the town from being flooded and then have to face off either the coven leaders. I assume there’s a second book.