A review by foxwish
The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches by Sangu Mandanna

medium-paced

• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

1.0

Most of the book was decent and easy to read despite how twee it is, telling instead of showing, not doing anything interesting with witches or magic and how alarmingly one-dimensional the characters are. Not to mention the adults and children all acting very similarly and speaking in the same way, it made the book come across as very juvenile.

What ruined this book for me was the terrible plot twist. The children literally don't care and even

animate their adopted mother's corpse?? But I guess that's okay because she was never around anyway, was that scene meant to be funny?

, it makes the adults seem stupid at best and manipulative at worst and I was shocked at how Mika quickly got over it just because she has a single sex scene.

The solicitor is meant to be the bad guy but he's the only one with any sense and was genuinely in the right.

I don't know how other people found this cozy at all, but Mandanna's work clearly isn't for me. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Toxic relationship, Death, and Toxic friendship