A review by reading_under_covers
Witchcraft for Wayward Girls by Grady Hendrix

5.0

My first five star of the year goes to none other than WITCHCRAFT FOR WAYWARD GIRLS by Grady Hendrix 🥳

Wellwood Home is a home for wayward girls - unwed mothers - to go to have their babies in secret and then have them taken away as if none of it happened. Fern finds herself there and powerless in the summer of 1970, but when a librarian sneaks her a book on the occult, Fern is ready to take back some power.

This horror novel was horrific for its historical accuracy and its haunting prose surrounding witchcraft. Hendrix really did the damn thing (*lots of research and even more listening) when he decided to write a book from the perspective of many pregnant girls and he captured it all in harrowing detail.

I found myself in a tornado of emotional whiplash and grew to love each one of our wayward girls and the power they found within themselves (rip my heart in two and feed it to the flames).

At just under 500 pages, every word felt necessary and added so much to Hendrix’s world and character building.

Huge thanks to Berkley Publishing for the early copy for review!

Publication Date: January 14!
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