Autumn, one of my favorite seasons! See, I love everything warm, cosy and witchy. So with Halloween coming up, my TBR for the month is a mixed bag of everything witchy, whimsical and enchanting.
โThe Nature of Witchesโ by Rachel Griffin
For centuries, witches have maintained the climate, their power from the sun peaking in the season of their birth. But now their control is faltering as the atmosphere becomes more erratic. All hope lies with Clara, an Everwitch whose rare magic is tied to every season.
In Autumn, Clara wants nothing to do with her power. Itโs wild and volatile, and the price of her magicโlosing the ones she lovesโis too high, despite the need to control the increasingly dangerous weather.
In Winter, the world is on the precipice of disaster. Fires burn, storms rage, and Clara accepts that sheโs the only one who can make a difference.
In Spring, she falls for Sang, the witch training her. As her magic grows, so do her feelings, until sheโs terrified Sang will be the next one she loses.
In Summer, Clara must choose between her power and her happiness, her duty and the people she lovesโฆ before she loses Sang, her magic, and thrusts the world into chaos.
Practical Magicย meetsย Twisterย in this debut contemporary fantasy standalone about heartbreaking power, the terror of our collapsing atmosphere, and the ways we unknowingly change our fate.
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โThe Wicked Deepโ by Shea Ernshaw
Welcome to the cursed town of Sparrowโฆ
Where, two centuries ago, three sisters were sentenced to death for witchery. Stones were tied to their ankles and they were drowned in the deep waters surrounding the town.
Now, for a brief time each summer, the sisters return, stealing the bodies of three weak-hearted girls so that they may seek their revenge, luring boys into the harbor and pulling them under.
Like many locals, seventeen-year-old Penny Talbot has accepted the fate of the town. But this year, on the eve of the sistersโ return, a boy named Bo Carter arrives; unaware of the danger he has just stumbled into.
Mistrust and lies spread quickly through the salty, rain-soaked streets. The townspeople turn against one another. Penny and Bo suspect each other of hiding secrets. And death comes swiftly to those who cannot resist the call of the sisters.
But only Penny sees what others cannot. And she will be forced to choose: save Bo, or save herself.
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โSerpent & Doveโ by Shelby Mahurin
Bound as one to love, honor, or burn.
Two years ago, Louise le Blanc fled her coven and took shelter in the city of Cesarine, forsaking all magic and living off whatever she could steal. There, witches like Lou are hunted. They are feared. And they are burned.
Sworn to the Church as a Chasseur, Reid Diggory has lived his life by one principle:ย thou shalt not suffer a witch to live.ย His path was never meant to cross with Louโs, but a wicked stunt forces them into an impossible unionโholy matrimony.
The war between witches and Church is an ancient one, and Louโs most dangerous enemies bring a fate worse than fire. Unable to ignore her growing feelings, yet powerless to change what she is, a choice must be made.
And love makes fools of us all.
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โKingdom of The Wickedโ by Kerri Maniscalco
Two sisters.
One brutal murder.
A quest for vengeance that will unleash Hell itselfโฆ
And an intoxicating romance.
Emilia and her twin sister Vittoria are streghe โ witches who live secretly among humans, avoiding notice and persecution. One night, Vittoria misses dinner service at the familyโs renowned Sicilian restaurant. Emilia soon finds the body of her beloved twinโฆdesecrated beyond belief. Devastated, Emilia sets out to find her sisterโs killer and to seek vengeance at any cost-even if it means using dark magic thatโs been long forbidden.
Then Emilia meets Wrath, one of the Wicked-princes of Hell she has been warned against in tales since she was a child. Wrath claims to be on Emiliaโs side, tasked by his master with solving the series of womenโs murders on the island. But when it comes to the Wicked, nothing is as it seemsโฆ
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โSorcery of Thornsโ byย Margaret Rogerson
All sorcerers are evil. Elisabeth has known that as long as she has known anything. Raised as a foundling in one of Austermeerโs Great Libraries, Elisabeth has grown up among the tools of sorceryโmagical grimoires that whisper on shelves and rattle beneath iron chains. If provoked, they transform into grotesque monsters of ink and leather. She hopes to become a warden, charged with protecting the kingdom from their power.
Then an act of sabotage releases the libraryโs most dangerous grimoire. Elisabethโs desperate intervention implicates her in the crime, and she is torn from her home to face justice in the capital. With no one to turn to but her sworn enemy, the sorcerer Nathaniel Thorn, and his mysterious demonic servant, she finds herself entangled in a centuries-old conspiracy. Not only could the Great Libraries go up in flames, but the world along with them.
As her alliance with Nathaniel grows stronger, Elisabeth starts to question everything sheโs been taughtโabout sorcerers, about the libraries she loves, even about herself. For Elisabeth has a power she has never guessed, and a future she could never have imagined.
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