Cannonball Read 18

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The bigger picture of witchcraft and wicca

Witchcraft: A Graphic History: Stories of wise women, healers and magic by Lindsay Squire

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Part fiction and part non-fiction, Witchcraft: A Graphic History: Stories of wise women, healers and magic includes the history of one woman Biddy Early, (perhaps not well-known to today’s audience, but one of Ireland’s most famous witches). It is told as a story of how she helped her village, but still people feared her powers while in-between are parts the history of witch trials, tools of the trade, familiars, types of witches/witchcraft and more. Both historical people and women of mythology come to life as […]

I know I took a picture of this….

Witch's Inheritance by Paige Hender

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When I first saw the cover of Witch’s Inheritance by Paige Hender I figured it was a Baba Yaga story (chicken-footed house) and the witches were going to be “the bad guys” or at least one “bad guy” witch and the rest “good witches.”  That’s partly true.   There is a chicken house, good witches and some bad magical characters, but not as you’d think. The main character of the story has inherited her estranged mother’s family home from her unknown grandmother. She meets her equally […]

A witch is simply a woman who listens to her intuition

First Witches Club by Maisey Yates

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If you’re looking for a cozy-ish read about women learning how to live for themselves and get revenge, this is it. We meet each of our three main characters fairly early in the book, but it’s basically Nora’s story. Her husband has just left her for a wellness retreat in Chile to “find himself”. Nora tries to convince herself for a lot of the book that her marriage is fine, and she’s just helping out her new friends with their failing marriages. She reconnects with […]

A promising start to a new series

Witch Season by Julia Bianco

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CBR18 Bingo: Refuge (The Aestas coven works hard to be a safe haven and refuge for young witches who have snapped and would normally be ostracised by other witches) Thank you to St. Martin’s Press and NetGalley for this ARC. This book is on sale now. There are two types of witches (in this world, all magic users are called witches, regardless of gender). The ones who are born from families with established magic, who grew up as part of a coven, and who are […]

Female friendship

Rebis: Born and Reborn by Irene Marchesini and Carla Roncalli Di Montorio

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Because I have really wanted to read the graphic novel Rebis: Born and Reborn by Irene Marchesini and Carla Roncalli Di Montorio for a year now, I think I had too high hopes for it. The concept was good, but there was some execution of the final results for me. It was an interesting look at the concept of a woman’s place and how she is shunned, blamed, and used as the scapegoat when she does not “obey” the rules. This flows into how a […]

Magical Historical Fiction

The Antidote by Karen Russel

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From the afterword/Lost Land Acknowledgement by Dr. James Riding In: “The Antidote uses fantastical conceits to illuminate the holes in people’s private and collective memories, the willful omissions passed down generation to generation, and the myths that have been used by the U.S. government and White settlers to justify crimes against the citizens of Native Nations and the theft of Native lands.” And the author uses those fantastical conceits very well. The Antidote is a beautifully written, sad, interesting, and clever novel. It’s a fantastic […]



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