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Sweet & Bitter Magic book cover: Twl women standing back to back with long hair, wearing cloaks

The Witch Can’t Love

Sweet & Bitter Magic by Adrienne Tooley

June 7, 2022 by Sofi Keren Leave a Comment

Tamsin is a powerful witch with a terrible condition: she can’t love. The ability was taken from her by the Coven as punishment after she drastically misused her powers in her youth. And so, in exile in a rural town, she does spells for the townspeople in exchange for the love that they hold, which she always uses up too quickly. Wren has spent her entire life caring for her ill father, so much so that she can do nothing else. She holds a secret […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction, Romance Tagged With: Adrienne Tooley, LGBTQ, magic, queer, witches

Sofi Keren's CBR14 Review No:13 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Romance · Tags: Adrienne Tooley, LGBTQ, magic, queer, witches ·
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The Sixth Day is for Music

Sofi and the Bone Song by Adrienne Tooley

April 7, 2022 by Pooja 2 Comments

Sofi has been training all her life to replace her father as Musik, but when beautiful, untrained Lara wins the role instead, she suspects  there may be illegal magic involved. A long while ago I read about the Polgár sisters, a trio of Hungarian chess prodigies who were very carefully reared by their father to eat, sleep, and breath chess. I found myself simultaneously fascinated and horrified at this single-minded cultivation of genius, because it sounded like a terrible thing to do to children, robbing […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: #fantasy, Adrienne Tooley, art, lgbt, music, Romance, sapphic, YA

Pooja's CBR14 Review No:50 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: #fantasy, Adrienne Tooley, art, lgbt, music, Romance, sapphic, YA ·
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