l1ndz7's reviews
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You know I feel like I’ve only seen the UK version of this cover and if you haven’t seen it it’s bright pink. Seeing that color gave me the wrong impression of this book. I thought it was going to be a cozy witchy tale and it is to a certain extent..but it’s also deliciously dark. 

We follow four POVs of witches: 
Niamh - one of the most powerful witches in the story who is a healer and sentient. She is no longer apart of HMRC (Her Majesty’s Royal Coven)
Elle - a healer who is also not a part of HMRC actively. She has a witch daughter named Holly and a non-magical or mundane husband and son named Jez and Milo
Leonie - she left HMRC to create her own more inclusive coven called Dispora that mostly includes minorities. She has a witchy gf named Chinara
Helena - current High Priestess of HMRC who has a daughter named Snow who is an elemental witch 

There is a premonition that the Leviathan will rise and extinguish the witches and warlocks of the UK. When a really powerful child is found after a magical incident at their school in Scotland happens, Helena has the child named Theo locked up thinking this child is how the Leviathan will rise. What happens next you won’t see coming. 

The ending shocked me and I’m really not sure if I care to continue the series because of the direction the book is going in. TBD

The beginning of this was incredibly interesting but then the middle portion really lost me. I listened to this on audio and I appreciated the change in narrator when they changed the perspective of the story. The last half was interesting too. I feel like alot of nonfiction I’ve read fails to include how things are after the events in the book but this one nailed it and now we understand everything. 

I watched the movie and it matches the book really closely. It’s just as long-winded and slightly boring too 🤣😂

I am so glad this book exists. The author really did his research and I applaud him for his meticulousness. I’m also incredibly outraged that another huge event in U.S. history is not taught in schools but at least now I know about it and am disgusted even more with how our country treats indigenous and BIPOc people 😭😤🤬

This book was so good it literally had my head spinning at the end and I had to take a walk to clear my head. 

I tried the audiobook and couldn’t understand the slang. Tried the physical copy but I’m just not interested. 

What a wonderful autobiography and useful guide on gender identity. I encourage everyone to pick this book up. This topic is explained so well and so personally, you’re bound to find something that resonates with you. There were questions in here that I even troubled with as an adolescent. Life’s a journey and we’re always learning about each other, about ourselves because we are always changing. I LOVED this! 

Also, I can’t believe this book is banned??? This should be the last book ever banned! This book is more useful than a lot of books that aren’t banned. That being said, this book does talk about serious topics that may not be appropriate for anyone under 15 or 16 years old. 

I really loved the diversity and illustration style in here. I’ll also read anything that involves flying on brooms! I did wish that the story was alittle deeper and that it had more smooth transitions to different scenes. I’m sure that’s difficult to do in this medium and respect and appreciate the writers and illustrators that worked on this ❤️

This was a cute and unique novella. I wonder how similar this is to Grady Hendrix’s book, Horrorstör? Might be a good rec for this. I also kept thinking about the Fractured Fable series by Alix E. Harrow because of the inter-dimensional traveling they did with the device called Finna. Both good recs I think. I might check out Horrorstör next honestly. 

I really liked that this book didn’t try to force the two MCs

who were saying and had broken up back together.

It was nice seeing them be content apart. A lot of the dialogue between them is just bickering and arguing and if this was any longer that might have driven me insane lol. The inter-dimensional travel was really cool too but i wish it was explored in more depth instead of exs bickering 🤣 

I used to work in retail and so a lot of the commentary made about that resonated with me. Thank God I got out when I did because retail work is soul-sucking. Overall, a great read for Pride Month. It was utterly weird in the best kind of way 

Best trans horror I’ve ever read. What an utterly compelling, gruesome, and dark story. A must-read!!! The less you know, the better. Just let Andrew’s incredible writing sink you into the story. 

I did feel that the ending wrapped up a bit too quickly and that’s why it’s not a full five stars. The ending really has to stick for me. Other than that, I am so happy I picked this up and I can’t wait to read more from this trans author!!! 

The only thing I learned about Hawaii in school was about Pearl Harbor and that wasn’t even about Hawaii LOL it just took place there. How sad is that? Why was I never taught about the indigenous peoples of Hawaii and their active resistance to being colonized by the US? Because that’s not what they want you to think about your country when you’re at such an impressionable age. It’s disgusting. 

According to the records found in this book, the British were the first to come and they came in with guns blazing. Ruthless and merciless. Wiping away their culture and identity just so you can use their land? Disgusting. Calling them savages and animals and uncivilized just because they’re a different color and have a different culture and language? Disgusting. Does this sound familiar? I’m sure it does because this is the US’s true history. They’re either the ones colonizing or helping another white nation colonize. 

I’m so happy this book exists. I highly recommend the audiobook because the author actually speaks in their native language (and translate it of course) and it is so cool to hear. The author really did their research and I appreciate the hard work put into this book. This is a piece of history that has been forgotten purposely. Im so glad we have brave people like the author and translator/narrator of this book who are able to teach us the truth. 

This is a feminist retelling of Red Riding Hood written in second person. It touches on toxic masculinity, women empowerment and shame. 

It uses menstruation as an empowering tool instead of something to be ashamed of, which I appreciated. It definitely feels taboo to talk about. Judging about the amount of reviews saying how gross it was that menstruation was a component of the story, I wish talking about it was more normalized. At first, I was taken back by how much menses was mentioned but once I understood the purpose, it didn’t bother me as much.  

This book portrays toxic men as wolves which was great but her message at the end of the book implies that the only way to deal with this is to treat men the same way they’ve treated women. I don’t agree with that message at all and judging by the reviews, a lot of people heard the same message. At first, I thought this book was portraying all men as wolves but it was refreshing to see that our FMC had a wonderful, loving, supportive bf the whole book. 

I wish this wasn’t categorized as YA because there is explicit content in here that I wouldn’t let someone as young as twelve to be reading. I would categorize this more as new adult.