The Once and Future Witches
The Once and Future WitchesAlix E. Harrow
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The Once and Future Witches (2020)

Alix E. Harrow

Others: Overwhelmingly positive

In 1893, there's no such thing as witches. There used to be, in the wild, dark days before the burnings began, but now witching is nothing but tidy charms and nursery rhymes. If the modern woman wants any measure of power, she must find it at the ballot box. But 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. 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. There's no such thing as witches. But there will be. An homage to the indomitable power and persistence of women, The Once and Future Witches reimagines stories of revolution, motherhood, and women's suffrage—the lost ways are calling.

ISBN:
9780356512501
Length:
528 pages

Genres: fantasy

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Reviews2

Loved it

So yeah this is fantastic this has some romantic elements in here that I really love all of these characters are again archetypes of that made mother chrone vibe that I really love.

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Loved it

I've only just started it but I am very much enjoying it... I'm enjoying its very luscious Pros very interesting World building I like a sort of for historical period to my fantasy so that's really interesting and this one I don't think I said is set during a version of the suffrage movement.