the once and future witches by alix e harrow

If you come to it expecting something as warm and sweeping and full of hope as The Ten Thousand Doors of January, you’ll be surprised, because The Once and Future Witches has vicious teeth. Stalked by shadows and sickness, hunted by forces who will not suffer a witch to vote-and perhaps not even to live-the sisters will need to delve into the oldest magics, draw new alliances, and heal the bond between them if they want to survive. If the modern woman wants any measure of power, she must find it at the ballot box.īut when the Eastwood sisters–James Juniper, Agnes Amaranth, and Beatrice Belladonna–join the suffragists of New Salem, they begin to pursue the forgotten words and ways that might turn the women’s movement into the witch’s movement. There used to be, in the wild, dark days before the burnings began, but now witching is nothing but tidy charms and nursery rhymes.

In 1893, there’s no such thing as witches.

I personally want to add that I found the pregnancy, childbirth and threat to babies a very prominent and intense theme in the book. All opinions my own.Ĭontent warnings: (from the author) child abuse, both physical and psychological parental death arrest and imprisonment mind control pregnancy and childbirth, including forced hospitalization abortion racism sexism homophobia, both external and internalized threat of sexual assault, averted torture (mostly off-the-page, but alluded to) execution (attempted) child abandonment major character death. Ownership: Proof copy sent free of charge by Orbit Books. Book: The Once and Future Witches by Alix E Harrow

The once and future witches by alix e harrow