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No October Surprise Here–Witches! ☾✔️

October 28, 2024

My late summer, early fall witchy reads: Witchcraft is nonfiction and tracks the history of witch trials and modern versions of them up through Stormy Daniels. Fawkes’s Daughters of Chaos is a historical fantasy set in 19th c. Nashville. I’m a huge fan of the All Souls Trilogy and will read anything Harkness writes! The Familiar is my first Bardugo book, although she is very prolific. I chose this because, well, witches and historical fantasy. And Giddings’s 2022 novel is set in a dystopic, patriarchal society where men control women’s bodies and the historical narrative. Favorite worlds: Harkness’s and Bardugo’s. But Giddings’s theme/message is impossible to ignore.