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A review by malmasala
The Bewitching by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

dark hopeful mysterious reflective tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Plot
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.75

It happens by chance, or as Silvia Moreno-Garcia may place it, by a portent knowing. You happen across a book that your very soul had always been yearning to read. Once you open its pages, you are already caught in the bewitching. You sink into a world of dark academia and magic that challenges convention with the first breath it takes. Getting lost in archives of texts, conversations that treat Lovecraft and Shirley Jackson as old friends and a main character with a penchance for 90's rock music, you become as much a part of the mystery as everything else. Then, deeper, through groves and witches trails, strung along by the cunningness of a creator who knows her plays. The Bewitching unsettles and awakens, and it does not go down quietly. The spell only ends when you read the last word, and even then, you are left remembering it. The bewitchery and the horror; the tenderness, survival and the utter defiance of magic.
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