1950's Massachusetts: two very different young women attend Radcliffe College. Ava has grown up shut away from other people on an apple orchard, with her religious and controlling parents who don't want her to know her true self. And Lauren comes from a wealthy family and from a long line of wild women, but after …
In the basement of a bookshop in London, a secret society meets twice a year, guardians of an archive of magical items that look like ordinary, everyday things, which they call Unknowable Objects. Their aim is to hide the magic and never use it, because absolute power corrupts absolutely, according to their leader and oldest …
Continue reading The Society of Unknowable Objects by Gareth Brown
This book opens with an introduction speaking directly to the reader that goes for a few pages, letting us know that not everyone can see magic. Some people are mundane and aren't special, and those unmagical types will not like this book. It reminded me of The Emperor's New Clothes. If you like this book, …
Continue reading The Enchanted Lies of Celeste Artois by Ryan Graudin
In this debut novel from a Venezuelan author, fantasy and the history and folklore of South America are woven to together to create a story that creates an ambitious story world, and explores colonialism, revolution, magic and identity. In this story, our main characters are Reina and Eva, who are both black sheep in their …
Continue reading The Sun And The Void by Gabriela Romero Lacruz
Subtitled "lessons in Moonlight, Magic and the Mysteries of Being Human", this book is set up as little short lessons that make up a course of nightly reading. There's a fictional teacher who addresses you and takes you through subjects like dreams, the moon and it's pull on us, divination and other things. It's beautifully …
Continue reading The Night School: Moonlight, Magic and the Mysteries of Being Human by Maia Toll
I love witchy reads, and most especially Practical Magic. Or anything by Alice Hoffman, honestly. Her way of writing takes the everyday and the fairytale and blends them. After all, fairytales were created to help us navigate life and avoid danger. I love how she is able to take you on a journey with her …
Three estranged sisters are reunited in a strange city when one of them reads out a charm found in a library book. Drawn together, they each catch a glimpse of a tower that they have only heard of in stories. A tower where three powerful witches may have escaped with the last of the worlds …
Continue reading The Once And Future Witches by Alix E Harrow
Owl seems like a normal girl, going to school and hanging out with her best friend Mallory, but she's actually the daughter of a mortal and Jack Frost. When Summer seems literally endless and Owl can't get to the world of the fae, she teams up with her old friend Mallory to figure out what's …
Stella lives almost alone at the edge of Winterspell forest, since the death of her mother from a plague and her fathers devastating grief which turned him into an unrecognizable shadow. Raised by her grandmothers ghost and an imp called Peg, her loneliness leads her to go to school in the human world, desperate for …
I picked this up because I really like books like Like Water For Chocolate, stories that have a hint of magic, but that are otherwise kind of about everyday life. (Magic realism is one of our favourite genres). Rose Edelstein is turning 9 when her mother makes her a beautiful lemon cake with chocolate icing. …
Continue reading The Particular Sadness Of Lemon Cake by Aimee Bender
