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A review by victoria_mh
The Witches of Vardø by Anya Bergman
challenging
dark
emotional
mysterious
sad
tense
slow-paced
3.25
Content Warnings
Graphic: Pregnancy, Physical abuse, Sexual violence, Suicide, Misogyny, Grief, Death of parent, Violence, Sexism, Religious bigotry, Adult/minor relationship, Child death, Child abuse, Abandonment, Rape, Miscarriage, and Injury/Injury detail
There is a lot of very heavy stuff in this book; I was expecting torture of 'witches' and that itself was hard to read, but then there's a full description of the teenage protagonist getting raped.