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A review by keirashepherd
The Once and Future Witches by Alix E. Harrow
5.0
There are no words to fully describe how much I ardently love this book. It is a masterpiece.
The characters and character development is exquisite, the metaphor are stunning, the truth of the words these characters speak combined with their incredible humour is out of this world.
Alix E. Harrow manages to combine the suffrage movement with the entrenched racism in both society and the suffrage movement, with witches and the idea that ‘behind every witch is a wronged woman’.
Now I’m not talking witches and black hats style magic; Harrow portrays a subtly to a witches power that almost makes the book seem realistic.
Harrow also includes different LGBTQ+ characters and highlights the way in which they have to act in society, ‘if this was the consequence of her sinfulness, perhaps she ought to sin more often’.
Something I found especially cool was that within some of the chapters are classical fairytale but retold (there’s seven overall) and I found it so clever as they both contributed to and enhanced the story tenfold.
The plot twists and amount of quotes and immaculate descriptions I tabbed is insane. I cannot recommend this enough, I think about this book constantly and loved every second of reading it.
The characters and character development is exquisite, the metaphor are stunning, the truth of the words these characters speak combined with their incredible humour is out of this world.
Alix E. Harrow manages to combine the suffrage movement with the entrenched racism in both society and the suffrage movement, with witches and the idea that ‘behind every witch is a wronged woman’.
Now I’m not talking witches and black hats style magic; Harrow portrays a subtly to a witches power that almost makes the book seem realistic.
Harrow also includes different LGBTQ+ characters and highlights the way in which they have to act in society, ‘if this was the consequence of her sinfulness, perhaps she ought to sin more often’.
Something I found especially cool was that within some of the chapters are classical fairytale but retold (there’s seven overall) and I found it so clever as they both contributed to and enhanced the story tenfold.
The plot twists and amount of quotes and immaculate descriptions I tabbed is insane. I cannot recommend this enough, I think about this book constantly and loved every second of reading it.