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A review by obsidian_blue
Witchcraft for Wayward Girls by Grady Hendrix
3.0
"Witchcraft for Wayward Girls" follows 15 year old Fern. The book starts off with her father barely speaking to her and him driving her to St. Augustine, Florida. We find out that Fern is pregnant and she's been taking away from her aunt's home (where she had been sent) after she refused to stay i the house hidden. Now Fern is going to a home for other girls like her who will be kept hidden until they give birth. When Fern meets a librarian that is more than she seems, her life, and the lives of the other girls changes too.
This was just okay y'all. I kept waiting for more horror, more danger, more something. It just didn't have the oompfh his other books had in my opinion. It just felt like there was a story there that Hendrix wanted to tell, but it got bogged down with too much. I loved that this book takes places in the late 60s in the U.S. and shows the world before Roe V. Wade (which has come again sadly).
I just wish that we had gotten more insights into the witches, the pair of sisters that do "root work" and just have that be the main focus. I think the pregnant girls having to deal with real-life horror (being lied to, raped, and everything in between) and then being forced to give up their children maybe should have been a separate book. Everything felt squished to me.
I also didn't really buy the evolution of Fern. She comes to the home and is barely able to speak, is very ashamed, and then somehow becomes the leader of her group of four? It just didn't have enough build-up for me.
And the other girls we don't get to spend too much time with. But we know that all of a sudden everyone wants to help one girl that we don't really get a good sense of (Holly) until we get the info-dump of what had been happening to her. Rose and Zinnia feel barely developed, but we get some explanation that the girls are not to discuss their real names, lives, or anything with each other, except when they do.
And the witches...I really wish we got more time with them too.
I just don't think everything hung together well and then the ending happened and read very tacked on to me.
I read this for cbrbingo17, "Black: The cover of the book has the color black on it."It's in row 1, square 3.
This was just okay y'all. I kept waiting for more horror, more danger, more something. It just didn't have the oompfh his other books had in my opinion. It just felt like there was a story there that Hendrix wanted to tell, but it got bogged down with too much. I loved that this book takes places in the late 60s in the U.S. and shows the world before Roe V. Wade (which has come again sadly).
I just wish that we had gotten more insights into the witches, the pair of sisters that do "root work" and just have that be the main focus. I think the pregnant girls having to deal with real-life horror (being lied to, raped, and everything in between) and then being forced to give up their children maybe should have been a separate book. Everything felt squished to me.
I also didn't really buy the evolution of Fern. She comes to the home and is barely able to speak, is very ashamed, and then somehow becomes the leader of her group of four? It just didn't have enough build-up for me.
And the other girls we don't get to spend too much time with. But we know that all of a sudden everyone wants to help one girl that we don't really get a good sense of (Holly) until we get the info-dump of what had been happening to her. Rose and Zinnia feel barely developed, but we get some explanation that the girls are not to discuss their real names, lives, or anything with each other, except when they do.
And the witches...I really wish we got more time with them too.
I just don't think everything hung together well and then the ending happened and read very tacked on to me.
I read this for cbrbingo17, "Black: The cover of the book has the color black on it."It's in row 1, square 3.