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I loved how this book parallels the trials of witches with the women's suffrage movement. It was a unique take on feminist history infused with elements of fantasy.

Each of the sisters was well drawn and I enjoyed their complex relationships to one another, and how Harrow melded their characters to fit the "mother, maiden and crone" archetypes generally associated with magical woman and witches.

The writing was so beautiful to read, I almost didn't notice how quickly the pages flew by. If you're looking for a witchy, feminist fantasy that celebrates sisterhood and the inherent power of women, look no further.

I received an ARC in exchange for an honest review.

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Thank you to Netgalley and the publisher for the E-ARC. The Once and Future Witches was an utterly magical read. Following the stories of the three Eastwood sisters in an alternate America filled with magic. In this timeline witches once powerful users of magic, but now magic is simply a whisper, used only to keep the house dust free or mending a tear in a dress. The story is centered on the trials and tribulations of Juniper, Agnes, and Beatrice. The sisters have been separated for several years but are magically brought back together, and become heavily involved in the women's suffrage movement. Harrow created a beautiful and magical world in The Ten Thousand Doors of January, and has done it again in The Once and Future Witches. Weaving in a mixture of myth, magic, folklore, and nursery rhyme Alix E. Harrow has once again written a fantastic book that shows just how important stories are.

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This book!! I adore this book! It feels timeless yet also so very, very of the moment. It is absolutely a book for now. And it is just so wonderfully written. Alix Harrow has a way of putting words together in the most beautiful way. I found myself re-reading some sentences and paragraphs several times just to let the words wash over me. I received a review copy in exchange for my honest opinion but I will be buying this book for sure. I know that I will revisit it again and again. If you loved Ten Thousand Doors of January then you must get this book. Alix E. Harrow is two for two now and I can't wait to see what she does next!

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I want to thank the publisher and Netgalley for providing me a copy of this book to review.

This book was everything I didn't know I needed. It was so well-written, the prose was beautiful, and the story felt like a song I never wanted to stop listening to. The Once and Future Witches read like a cross between Charmed and Practical Magic, with the relationship of three sisters front and center. The eldest two left home at relatively young ages, leaving the youngest alone with their abusive father. Seven years later they happen upon each other (mostly through chance and a little magic) and the story goes from there and never lets up.

The sisters were as different in personality as they were alike in their desires and wills. They started out pretty much at odds with each other, but as the novel progresses their relationship blossoms. The minor characters are also a delight. I particularly enjoyed Cleo and the beautiful relationship that developed between her and the eldest sister. I really don't want to say much else and inadvertently spoil the story, but suffice it to say that it belongs on the shelf of everyone who loves stories about sisters, witches, worlds that are like ours but differ slightly, and beautiful prose that the reader will want to lose themselves in. This has the potential to be one of my favorite books of 2020, and one of the most popular books of the fall.

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Alix E. Harrow has written such a beautiful, lyrical, and powerful book. The Once and Future Witches blends suffragists and witches together into such a seamless, wonderful tale that I couldn’t help but whisper the spells with the characters in the hope that maybe Harrow had stumbled upon our true history and, like the witches in her book, disguised it as fiction, waiting for her readers to release magic back into the world.

The Eastwood sisters are a force to be reckoned with. They are compelling and lovable—Bella with her studious, bookish nature, Agnes with her stubborn strength and iron will, and Juniper with her carefree spirit and wild nature. After seven years apart, the sisters struggle against each other before recognizing that their bond is too strong to be ignored. Readers couldn’t ask for a better set of witchy heroines.

What really struck me about The Once and Future Witches, is how Harrow’s world-building brings the whole story to life. Harrow uses nursery rhymes and classic fairytales to form the basis of her forbidden magic, and blends the fantastic with history in a way that makes the story more believable, creating a possible alternate history. In the world of the Eastwood sisters, the magic of witches has been hidden in the stories and songs that mothers pass on to their daughters, from small spells of healing or housework to more dangerous spells that break bones and cause death. Each chapter opens with the words and ways of a particular spell and a brief description of its purpose. Readers will recognize a lot of these rhymes already, which really helps to make the story and characters feel real and within reach. She also includes the stories that the characters tell each other, each story adding to the lore of the world.

But the true power lies in sisterhood, which is the main theme of the book. Not just the sisterhood between sisters related by blood, but the bond between all women. The Once and Future Witches is really a book about the power that women can summon when we work together. The movement brought together women from every walk of life and Harrow makes a point of including that diversity in her characters, from the wealthy and poor, to immigrants and natives, Black and white, prostitutes and mayor’s daughters. But this isn’t a men-hating book. Some of the most lovable characters of the book are men: August, who respects, admires, and loves Agnes for all that she is; and Mr. Blackwell, whose love of books and history and learning helps him to respect everyone regardless of race, gender, or sexuality.

Harrow also discusses the issue of race, by showing not just the Sisters of Avalon, who are predominately white, but also the Sisters of Tituba, who are a Black sisterhood of witches. She highlights the tension between the two groups and the understandable hesitancy of the Sisters of Tituba to join the Sisters of Avalon. While their white counterparts run risks, the Sisters of Tituba know that the risks to them will be even greater. There are some tense and uncomfortable moments between the two groups, but Harrow and her characters don’t shy away from it.

Overall, The Once and Future Witches is a truly magical book. The characters are wonderful and easy to love, the world-building is fantastic, and the message is powerful. Personally, I cannot wait until this book releases so I can hold a physical copy in my hands.

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The Once and Future Witches is Alix Harrow's second novel following her amazing debut, The Ten Thousand Doors of January. Written with the same lyrical and atmospheric style, this historical fantasy is set in New Salem in the late 19th century. Witchcraft is forbidden. Women's dresses don't have pockets - else they might hide the workings for spells. The Suffragette Movement is trying to have a voice with the mayor and council of New Salem.

The three Eastwood sisters haven't been in contact for several years. Not realizing they're all together again in the city, the sisters become tied together by their witchcraft as the maiden, mother, and crone. Bringing back witchcraft is a daunting task - one that could restore women's place in society. Or get them all burnt at the stake.

The Once and Future Witches tackles some serious things - women's rights, black rights, and LGBTQ+ rights.

I loved the complex characters of the three sisters. Alix Harrow did a fantastic job giving each one her own unique voice and POV. This a haunting but enjoyable read that left me in tears but wanting more.

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WOW, what a book. I think the best thing I can say is this: I have a notebook where I write down all my favorite lines from books I love, handwriting so small that each line is doubled up, and I still filled an entire page. It's the FROZEN films meets CINDERELLA IS DEAD, and so much more.

I'm the oldest of three sisters, and our personalities are pretty closed matched with Bella's, Agnes' and June's respectively, so this book was bound to tug on my heartstrings. There were a couple little quibbles - as a Jewish person, the "Old Testament God" line about GH rubbed me the wrong way - but most so minor I've already forgotten them. Or the reason for a particular plot point that I maybe wasn't so fond of came around later in the story.

I liked THE TEN THOUSAND DOORS OF JANUARY, but THE ONCE AND FUTURE WITCHES has solidified Alix E. Harrow's spot on my auto-read list.

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The Once and Future Witches takes place in the late 1800s and tells the tale of three estranged sisters, Juniper, Agnes, and Beatrice Eastwood, who magically reunite after seven years apart amidst a suffragette movement.

The sisters, along with the suffragists of New Salem, work together to restore women’s rights using the forgotten words and ways of whichcraft, while trying to heal old wounds between them.

Alix E. Harrow is a brilliant author and writes beautifully. Her words are like poetry and are an absolute pleasure to read. I am deeply fascinated by witches and whichcraft, and generally am a huge fan of strong women protagonists, being a woman (and feminist) myself.

That said, I wanted to love this book, but unfortunately, it fell flat for me. While I admire the Eastwood sisters’ bond, I didn’t like them as individual characters. I couldn’t connect with any of them - they just seemed unlikable to me.

Also, I thought the plot was lacking and often felt incohesive at times. I’m all for inclusivity, but it felt like Harrow tried to weave in way too many themes just for the sake of wanting to be inclusive.

The Once and Future Witches missed the mark for me, however, I still plan on buying the book when it comes out. Perhaps I will feel differently after I’ve read it a second time.

Thank you NetGalley and Redhook Books for providing me with the eARC in exchange for my honest review.

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The Once and Future Witches follows the three Eastward sisters as they raise hell, fight for women, and work to restore and preserve women's power through witching. This novel is set in an alternative historical setting (this threw me for a loop a couple times) and begins in 1893 in New Salem amid the suffrage movement and witch hysteria. Bella, Agnes, and Juniper have experienced all the challenges and horrors of being women in a world where they don't have a voice. But they find strength in each other and fight to win a place and acceptance in their world. This book is very much an story of women finding their way through pain, abuse, and hurt to power and the importance of memory, writing, and storytelling.

So many things gave me high expectations for this book. I loved Alix Harrow's debut, The Ten Thousand Doors of January. I love atmospheric, lush prose, magical realism, stories with folklore and fairy tale backgrounds, and stories that explore the power of storytelling. I had minor reservations for witching (I'm not really into occult stories), but I was super excited to read Harrow's newest book.

Maybe my expectations were too high, because I just really struggled with The Once and Future Witches. I don't mind slow pacing, but it can be tricky to capture both a magical feeling while not lagging in pace. I was a third to halfway through the book before I really felt invested in the story. In the beginning I struggled with some continuity things and the pacing felt at turns slow and rushed. You switch between the three sisters as POV characters, but there were cases where I got confused about which character I was with and their voices didn't always come through clearly. I thought the character work was fine, but I also just didn't find the characters particularly compelling. Maybe I'm just not enough of an angry feminist.

By the middle of the book, the story was ramping up, there was a more action and fire, and we seemed to get past most of the writing foibles. Unfortuantely they reappear during the climax of the book. I found myself confused and frustrated, and then I'd have to flip back a couple pages to try to figure out what happened. And we have two writing/storytelling pet peeves [MINIMAL SPOILERS]: (view spoiler)

This makes me sound so negative about the book, but I did like a lot of things. There was some beautiful prose (and some wonderful parrallelism that is just stunning), the setting was dark but compelling, it was a bit mysterious and creepy but not overdone, and the folklore and storytelling elements were very well done. There are some important issues raised, although at times it felt like the feminism and anger was a little too much for me personally. There are going to be people for whom the importance of the ideas make up for anything other reservations they might have, and that's totally fine.

I think this could have been an amazing book, but it felt a little rushed and inconsistent. I think if there had been another beta read or some more time, I think a lot of the writing things that bugged me could have been smoothed over. If I'm being honest, I might have DNF'd this one if it hadn't been an ARC just because of pacing (and I do not DNF lightly). I'm going to read more of Harrow's work, because I know that she can write stunning stories, but The Once and Future Witches was a disappointment.

Thanks to Orbit and Netgalley for an ARC in exchange for an honest review.

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I thought I would love this, but alas, ‘‘twas not to be.

I was hugely impressed with Harrow’s debut novel, The Ten Thousand Doors of January, and thus expected to be blown away by this book as well.

Unfortunately a combination of a lack of original material, a flat narrative, and uninspiring protagonists left me wanting.

Witches have never been my favorite supernatural beings, so I might be a tougher sell than some in that regard, but the setting and premise felt like enough. And indeed they would have been had we gotten a more dynamic story.

Harrow writes beautifully and knows her way around witty, understated text, but but neither managed to bail out the lackluster plot or the three protagonists who weren’t interesting enough to be so unlikable.

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Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for a free e-arc in exchange for my review.

I wanted to love this book so much. But something was off the whole time--maybe I read it out of season, maybe my expectations weren't right. I felt like it took half the book before we had a primary conflict, and I felt like the perspectives jumped around too much. I'm also concerned about the language used around race. While I understand the need for historical accuracy, this wasn't a fully historical novel (it took place in an altered version of our world) and not all the language in the text was historical. Representation is good, but not when characters feel almost like tokens. It felt like the story was trying to do too much at once, trying to make too many statements.

I did, however, love the relationship between the sisters, and the writing was absolutely lovely. I think, had I read it in the fall, I might have enjoyed it more. If you're looking for Ten Thousand Doors of January, keep looking. But if you're up for a witchy feminist fairy tale, you'll likely enjoy this book!

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The best book I have read in many years! The author’s use of language was amazing. The story made me laugh and it made me cry. I felt like the characters were friends, and I was sad to have to story conclude. A strong group of female characters, who showed grace and strength throughout. I will be buying the hard cover!

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I went into this book with a lot of excitement and a little bit of apprehension because Ten Thousand Doors of January was one of my favourite read of 2019. But when I started reading, a little bit of that apprehension went away with the beautiful writing of Alix E Harrow.
We are introduced to the three Eastwood sisters, June, Agnes and Bella who have all been separated but chance to come upon one another in New Salem amidst a Suffragette march. Their meeting precipitates events that lead them to reclaim the lost words and ways of witches while trying to work together and forget old wounds.
I have tried to keep the summary as vague as possible so that people reading it can go in with as little spoilers as possible.
Alix E Harrow manages to set the scene in 1800s within the first few chapters and the writing gives you the perfect atmospheric witchy vibes you go in expecting almost immediately. The author’s love for storytelling evident in the writing and how she weaves in folklore, fairytales and nursery rhymes soo perfectly into the narrative is commendable.
This is mostly a character driven narrative where a distinct voice is created for all three sisters with their own individual but intertwined histories and struggles. The character development you see over the course of the narration is incredible and I was completely emotionally invested in each and very one of the characters by the end.
But the pace of the narration suffered in the meantime as sometimes the plot dragged, especially the first half, to make time for the necessary developments in characters or to set up the relationships between the characters.
But I can hardly complain because the ending made up for all of it! The finale had all the emotional gut wrenching heart soaring excitement and I was sobbing so hard at the end that I couldn’t see through my tears to read.
I would highly recommend this tale of sisterhood in all it’s many forms for its inclusiveness, perfect witchy vibes, the beautiful lyrical writing of Harrow and the incredible female characters it presents to us in all their glory. Do not miss this!!!!! And preorder it right now!!
Rating : 4.5 stars

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It’s hard to define the genre of this book, which at first just seems like a fantasy about witches. But it is so much more than that, including historical fiction, magical realism, a story of relationships between family, friends, and lovers, and perhaps most interestingly, a manifesto on feminist sociology and politics.

The central characters are three sisters, Agnes, Bella, and Juniper, who grew up with a cruel abusive father - “a mean drunk with hard knuckles who never loved anything or anyone as much as he loved corn liquor.” Their mother died during Juniper’s birth. Their grandmother, called Mama Mags, was a healer who taught the girls about herbs and spells. Back home, Juniper explained, “every mama teaches her daughters a few little charms to keep the soup-pot from boiling over or make the peonies bloom out of season.”

Mama Megs used to tell the girls fairytales of all kinds, and the girls remembered them (harkening back to Harrow’s first book) as “doors to someplace else, someplace better.” She told them that magic would never be totally eliminated “because it beats like a great red heartbeat on the other side of everything.” She also said that proper witching was “just a conversation with that red heartbeat, which only ever takes three things: the will to listen to it, the words to speak with it, and the way to let it into the world. The will, the words, and the way.”

But the words - how to find them? The sisters discover the words are hidden in plain sight, in places like children’s verses and stories, and in sewing samplers: “power passed in secret from mother to daughter, like swords disguised as sewing needles.”

James Juniper Eastwood was the youngest and wildest of the three sisters. She somehow survived alone with her father for seven years after her older sisters left without a word and with no further communications. It hurt her, the way “they’d just walked off the edge of the page and vanished, a pair of unfinished sentences….”

At least she had Mama Mags. When Mama Mags died in the winter of 1891 though, there was nothing to hold Juniper back from doing what she thought she had to do and leaving town, and heading for New Salem.

Agnes Amaranth Eastwood was the middle sister, five years older than Juniper and the strongest of the three. Agnes worked hard in a New Salem sweatshop where woman were exploited for their labor, tied there by their desperation for money.

Beatrice Belladonna Eastwood was the oldest sister, and the wisest of the three. She had been a librarian in New Salem for the past five years.

With all three sisters in the same place, the older two simultaneously experienced what Juniper did: “an invisible kite-string stretched tight between her and her sisters, thrumming with unsaid things and unfinished business. It feels like a beckoning finger, a hand shoving between her shoulder blades, a voice whispering a witch-tale about three sisters lost and found.”

Thus the sisters were reunited on the the spring equinox of 1893. Juniper, at age 17, having just arrived in New Salem, was nonplussed to see her picture on wanted posters all over the train platform. She was wanted for murder and suspected witchcraft. She thought: “Hell. They must have found him.” She also saw posters for a women’s enfranchisement meeting at St. George’s Square, and was drawn to it.

At the suffrage meeting, Juniper heard the women talk about equality and she understood immediately what they were really asking: <em>Aren’t you tired yet?</em> Of being cast down and cast aside? Of making do with crumbs when once we wore crowns? <em>Aren’t you angry yet?</em> Indeed, Juniper certainly was.

When the three come together, they, along with the rest of the town, have a vision of the tower of the Lost Way of Avalon, fronted by three circles woven together. Beatrice has seen this interlocking shape before. Beatrice knows to whom it belongs: the Last Three Witches of the West.

Beatrice spent her free time in the library searching for “the words and ways to call back the Lost Way of Avalon.” According to Mags, the Lost Way of Avalon was “some great construct of stone and time and magic that preserved the wicked heart of women’s magic like seeds saved after winnowing.” She would whisper to Bella with a wink: <em>what is lost, that can’t be found, Belladonna?”</em>

Those who like Juniper sought the strength they lacked began to meet, calling themselves The Sisters of Avalon, to strategize and bring back the words and ways. They performed little public demonstrations of magic and left “The Sign of the Three” behind - the three interlocking circles. Although Bella formed a relationship with Cleo Quinn, a black woman who also was working for women’s rights, black women had their own society, “The Daughters of Tituba,” out of necessity. [Indeed, there is a historical basis for racist attitudes in the women’s suffrage movement. On one occasion Susan B. Anthony even asked Frederick Douglass not to attend a gathering for women’s suffrage in Atlanta, Georgia because, as she later <a href="http://womensrightsforever319.weebly.com/national-american-women-suffrage-association.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">recalled</a>: “I did not want anything to get in the way of bringing the Southern white women into our suffrage association.” In this book, one of the characters explained, “some worry that the inclusion of colored women might tarnish their respectable reputation; others feel they ought to spend a few more decades being grateful for their freedom before they agitate for anything so radical as rights. Most of them agree it would far more convenient if colored women remained in the Colored Women’s League.”]

Although the women working together managed to do some conjuring, the sisters gradually came to the conclusion that there wasn’t any such thing as “witch-blood,” and that, as Bella posited, “the words and ways are whichever ones a woman has, and that a witch is merely a woman who needs more than she has.” Perhaps, Juniper concludes, they have to bend the rules and make miracles themselves.

Their quest to understand and realize women’s power receives unexpected bolsteringby what many might claim is the greatest miracle and source of strength: love. Love comes to each of them in different ways, conferring “teeth and talons” while also opening them up to an altogether new sort of risk.


Discussion: Women have always needed words and ways to survive in what has for so long been a man’s world, in which men have power not only through physical strength but because of their political social and economic advantages that they have worked hard to maintain. In the author’s creation of a woman’s movement in New Salem, she manages to interweave so many issues relevant to women then (many of which remain problematic), even down to the lack of pockets in women’s clothes and the ideological tyranny behind that convention. She exposes not only the racial divide in the movement, but the way women of all colors challenged the oppressive gender and sexual norms of the time. She tackles the hypocrisy and co-optation (false consciousness, we say now) of those (both men and women) opposed to more freedom for women, and the way language - like the accusation of witchcraft - was and is still used to manipulate the populace to resist any change, particularly in women’s status.

As for the matter of witchcraft and magic, certainly there is at the very least magical realism in the book, but readers might also understand it metaphorically. The labeling of women who want their rights as witches, and the methods by which women try to undermine and overturn that tyrannical suppression, has always been real, and this story just adds depth and color to the conceit.

Evaluation: Alix Harrow is certainly one of our most creative contemporary writers. Her stories give readers so much to think about, and her facility with language is impressive. She isn’t afraid to transgress the boundaries between reality and fantasy while always leaving readers with the option to look pas

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I was excited to get a copy of this book from NetGalley because I really enjoyed The Ten Thousand Doors of January. It was still magical, this time about witches in Salem. It started a little bit slow but the pace picked up about a third of the way through. This is one of those books that I'll be thinking about for a while. No spoilers but the ending was well done and the book was enjoyable.
Thanks to NetGalley for the advanced review copy, all opinions are my own.

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Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for providing this arc in exchange for an honest review. The Once and Future Witches is by far the best book I have had the pleasure of reading this year. A breathtaking novel that follows the three Eastwood sisters Juniper, Bella, and Agnes as they pursue power and agency in a world that feels threatened by women having either. To do so they form bonds with unlikely allies and begin again an age old battle found at the heart of both the women's suffrage and the witches movement.

What really makes this book stand apart from all others is the writing. Every line that graces the page is so magical and devastating in the best way possible. I loved the use of storytelling interwoven with present events and how, at the heart of every story is a grain of truth to the overarching message. That and the epigraphs at the beginning of each chapter representing common sayings used as spells within that section of the story. The sisters themselves were so different and each had their own perspective on the life they lived together and apart. I think the book did an amazing job showing how each sister diverged from the other when it came to life goals and pursuits, but that that didn't supersede the binds to one another. They were able to come back together and strive towards a common goal. The distinction between witchcraft and women's suffrage throughout the story was brilliant. Both are essentially a kind of power that women have taken for themselves that terrifies the men who have been in positions of power for centuries. That was really thought provoking for me as a reader and it really impacted how the story took shape in my eyes. Now that I have reached the end, I am left feeling like this book has changed me in some way. Like the story has taken root and will grow to become something else entirely. Though this book doesn't come out for another few months I recommend keeping an eye out for its release. I know I will be looking out for more from this author in the future.

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This story is about the three Eastwood sisters and their many Sisters, joined together to fight for the right of women to be their true selves, to bridge the gap between what they have and what they need, to fight the male-dominated society that tries to keep them small and quiet. I am most like Bella, the thoughtful librarian (who keeps things locked up safe inside.) But Juniper inspires me to embrace my repressed wild child. She had me at “our daddy never taught us sh*t,” and I laughed, gasped, and cried at her bravery, stubbornness, audacity, and willingness to call BS when she saw it. Agnes is the motherly middle sister, who wrestles with expanding the circle of protection around her heart. They are bound together despite (or because of?) their difficult family history. They live in the 1890s in New Salem, in the aftermath of witch burnings in Old Salem. Witching is hidden and underground but is about to become louder and more overt.

On the surface, this is a grand conflict between good and evil, about the light fighting the darkness. There are spells and witching, excitement and suspense, heartache, and misfortune. In that sense, it is a wonderful story written in beautiful, expressive, layered language. But it’s just so much more that I fear I lack the words to properly express. This story made me wish I had sisters and encourages me to hold tight to and further grow the relationships I have with my women friends. I might not be able to whisper some words and use crushed lavender to induce sleep (or can I?!) but I can embrace the power of Sisterhood. This war isn't exclusive to the Eastwood sisters’ time and place -- darkness preys on the unjustly vulnerable today, in our world. Here, there is a gap between what women have and what they need. The patriarchy still tries to keep us small. This story helped me escape into a world of adventure and spells but brought me back to realize that the battle continues, and I have the will to fight until the darkness is truly banished. It is truly a special storyteller that can both entertain and empower.

I am so in love with this book and the world that Alix Harrow created. I want to be an Eastwood. I long to be a Sister. I will forevermore imagine the mundane objects hidden in my feminist pockets as being Ways for witching. I love that the Words for witching are hidden in plain sight, creatively passed down from generation to generation of women who have the Will to work them.

This absolutely goes on my list of favorite books. I look forward to re-reading it and recommending it to everyone I know who enjoys magic, fantasy, powerful women, and beautiful stories with hidden (sort-of) depth.

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I just could not get along with this book. 10,000 Doors of January is easily in my top 10 favorite books and I love books about witches - so this book was my dream come true - until it wasn't. First of all I felt confused by the backstories of the sisters through the first parts. I understand wanting to breadcrumb readers into the characters, but this just felt disjointed to me. Secondly, there were so, so many themes - witches, suffragettes, fairy tales, lesbians, POC, transgenders and I am sure I am forgetting a couple. It felt all thrown together just to be inclusive and sadly it forgot being cohesive. Thirdly, I didn't connect to any of the characters. They just felt flat to me. But, on the plus side - Alix Harrow is an amazing author and can spin words and phrases with best of them. Her writing is really a joy to read.

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This has been one of my favorite ARC's so far! Original story that's enjoyable to read. Three sisters who happen to be witches fighting the patriarchal system; redefining a movement for women and for magic. How fun is that? Very well written and a fast paced read. I enjoyed it so much that I plan to research other titles from this author. I recommend. Thank you NetGalley for tne opportunity to review this book.

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The publisher provided me with the opportunity to read this in exchange for providing feedback. (via NetGalley)

It took me a little bit to get into this but I enjoyed it once I did. I would definitely read more from this author.

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