Suffragists are fighting for women's right to vote, but some women are fighting for even more: witchcraft. That's the premise of Alix E. Harrow's novel The Once and Future Witches. Set in New Salem - a town without sin - witchcraft has been purged. Well, not entirely. It's just gone underground, the words that mothers pass on to their daughters spoken in hushed tones but still known.
The Eastwood sisters thought they could outrun their past, but the bond of blood and magic is too strong. And that's how they find themselves in New Salem tangled up in a search for the lost ways and trying to use witchcraft to give women more than just a vote.
Of course, there's a man and magic more powerful than they anticipated. Will they find the ways to defeat him in time or will they too burn at the stake like their ancestors?
What a great book to read during the Halloween season. I loved going on a hunt with the sisters as they searched for the Lost Way of Avalon, and it was so interesting to see how the author took familiar nursery rhymes and fairy tales, and interpreted them into spells and witch stories, giving them an imagined magical history.
If you love books with strong female protagonists and you like to be a little bit spooked, then you'll enjoy this new novel.
The Once and Future Witches is published by Redhook and will be on bookstore shelves tomorrow. I received a free e-ARC in exchange for my review.
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