Many thanks to Union Square & Co. for sharing this unexpectedly sobering young adult novel. This gifted novel, along with a couple of others, came as surprise book mail, and although it was a book I wouldn't normally choose, I was captivated from the start.
The story follows Elliott, a teenage victim of sexual assault, who comes upon a spell book that once belonged to her departed mother. After recruiting fellow victims from her support group to join her coven and cast spells on their perpetrators, she is ultimately surprised to learn what her true heart's desire is.
Having known absolutely nothing about witches and how covens work, I was a bit apprehensive about the content, but ultimately, the message was one of redemption and hope. Kim DeRose did an excellent job expressing the wide range of emotion that sexual assault victims undergo. The novel was all at once disheartening and empowering.
⚠️Trigger warnings: sexual assault, death of a parent
Read 4/18/24
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