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The Once and Future Witches
by Alix E. Harrow
Charming, witchy read! I loved The Ten Thousand Doors of January, so I was absolutely psyched when I heard this book was coming out. Witches? Suffragettes? Hell yeah. Alix E. Harrow is so good at threading strands of magic into real history. Everything was incredibly well-researched, and it shows. The world-building was just on-point throughout the whole novel. Though the story centers around three (white) sisters, you can see how Harrow tried to incorporate a multiplicity of voices and perspectives in her Sisters of Avalon movement (if she's successful in this... I can't really say, but the sentiment was at least there). My main concern picking up a book about the suffrage movement was that it would be overwhelmingly white and hetero, and I was pleasantly surprised when it was not.
As much as I loved the premise of this novel... I must be honest, something about it fell kind of flat for me. I never had that feeling where I just couldn't put the book down because I just NEEDED to know what happened next, which is kind of disappointing. I can't exactly put my finger on why, either. Perhaps the book was simply too long and meandering, or the characters were a little too archetypal to resonate with me, or my expectations were just too high based on Harrow's last novel, but for whatever reason, I found myself sporadically losing interest, briefly finding it again, only to lose it all over again.
Still glad I gave this one a read, despite it not quite living up to my expectations. I had a pleasant time embodying this magic universe, and my desire to embrace witchcraft is at an all-time high.
As much as I loved the premise of this novel... I must be honest, something about it fell kind of flat for me. I never had that feeling where I just couldn't put the book down because I just NEEDED to know what happened next, which is kind of disappointing. I can't exactly put my finger on why, either. Perhaps the book was simply too long and meandering, or the characters were a little too archetypal to resonate with me, or my expectations were just too high based on Harrow's last novel, but for whatever reason, I found myself sporadically losing interest, briefly finding it again, only to lose it all over again.
Still glad I gave this one a read, despite it not quite living up to my expectations. I had a pleasant time embodying this magic universe, and my desire to embrace witchcraft is at an all-time high.