witchcraft – Cannonball Read 17

I don’t know what a newt is. It’s a lizard, right? I really don’t want to be a lizard.

The Kiss Curse (Graves Glen #2) by Erin Sterling

October 19, 2025 by carmelpie 2 Comments

Gwyn had no doubt that whoever he was, his ancestors had absolutely once stared down the business end of a guillotine. You didn’t get cheekbones like that without oppressing some peasants. ― Erin Sterling, The Kiss Curse CBR17 Bingo: Purple This story takes place one year after The Ex Hex. Gwynn is bored. Her shop, Something Wicked, is barely breaking even, she hasn’t had a relationship in over a year, and her cousin and best friend Vivi is disgustingly in love and unavailable for witchy shenanigans […]

It’s corn! (I can tell you all about it)

What Stalks Among Us by Sarah Hollowell

April 10, 2024 by Pooja Leave a Comment

When best friends Sadie and Logan stumble across a strange corn maze out of season, they decide to venture inside on a lark. But when they stumble across what appear to be their own murdered bodies, they discover that they have become trapped in a time loop with a murderer on their heels. Thank you dreadpiratekel for putting this book on my radar – their review mentioned monsters made of corn, time loops, and all the way in which toxic people suck, and I was […]

The struggles, tragedies, and triumphs of three women in three time periods

Weyward by Emilia Hart

March 22, 2024 by Dome'Loki Leave a Comment

My book club knocked it out of the park this month with Weyward. Coincidentally, Barnes and Noble chose it as this month’s speculative fiction pick. Clearly we have excellent taste. Emilia Hart has crafted a moving narrative across time by telling us the story of Altha Weyward in 1619, Violet Aryes in 1942, and Kate Aryes in 2019. Altha, Violet, and Kate are Weyward women. Born with the gift of being in tune with and connected to nature. For Altha, raised by her mother, another Weyward […]

Real Witchy Teas and More

Wiccan Teas & Brews by Cerridwen Greenleaf

January 28, 2024 by CoffeeShopReader Leave a Comment

It would seem that my post-holiday, pre-before-school-starts self-care gift to myself this year so far has been in the form of teas. And then, I go into the library to browse for a minute before yoga (I should know better; every time I do that, I’m nearly late for class), and I find Wiccan Teas & Brews: Recipes for magical drinks, essences, and tinctures. Obviously, I had to check that out. There really are lot of interesting recipes in here, and I do not deny […]

“If you have thought seriously about mirrors, you will know about their mystery.”

Elizabeth by Ken Greenhall

January 21, 2024 by GentleRain Leave a Comment

Elizabeth is a fairly short novel with spare prose that makes it a quick read, but Greenhall’s ability to evoke mood and tension makes it a strong novel. This was another Christmas gift Valancourt novel, and it’s been interesting to see that while I am not a fan of sci-fi around this time, I do tend to like horror novels from this era much better than modern ones. The mix of literary and genre here heightens the book as a whole. Elizabeth is a take […]

Slewfoot: the devil is in the details

Slewfoot by Brom

January 17, 2024 by donttrustthe_bea 4 Comments

mood music: me and the devil – Soap&Skin I had never heard of Brom and I was unfamiliar with his work before picking up this book. I found out about this book through TikTok and was intrigued by the premise, even if it was something that was outside of my usual reading genres. Slewfoot is set in colonial New England, a few years after the Salem Witch Trials. The protagonist, Abitha, is a young woman who is a fairly recent arrival to the colonies as […]

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