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Cari Thomas

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Threadneedle (2021) 370 eksemplarer
The Hedge Witch (2022) 39 eksemplarer
Shadowstitch 2 eksemplarer

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Anna lives in London and her aunt has always emphasised that she has to keep her magic under control or she will be hunted. Her coven's methods are quite severe but they have kept the members of the coven from being discovered, from death and from exposing other witches to public knowledge. Then her aunt came to visit with her daughter and they are less careful and Anna begins to see a world outside her aunt's constraints and it's attractive.
This has echoes of the Craft and other books about teenage witches learning about their abilities; I would like to read more in this world but I'm not rushing to read it.… (mere)
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wyvernfriend | 6 andre anmeldelser | Mar 19, 2023 |
Trudged through beginning of book, it finally started to get more interesting when they formed a coven but felt like a reworking of The Craft. There were definitely some interesting twists at the end, but since I felt like I was wallowing through the book to finish it, I don't care to read any sequels.
 
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Jen-the-Librarian | 6 andre anmeldelser | Mar 5, 2023 |
Marketed as, I believe, adult fantasy, this reads much more as a YA read to me. There's a lot of teenage angst and themes of coming of age. It's long but never gets ponderous. Fresh and original.

Anna has been brought up by her aunt after the violent deaths of her parents when she was a baby. Her aunt has indoctrinated her in the dangers of magic, 'Magic is the first sin. It must be bound'. Her methods for controlling Anna's magic are not kind. The binders use knots as a method of control and binders techniques can be brutal. Devoid of a loving family life at home, fifteen-year-old Anna also keeps her head down at school, avoiding notice. She is called the Nobody.

When Anna's other aunt, Selene, visits, bringing with her Effie and Attis, Anna's well-controlled life begins to slowly unravel. Her eyes are opened to another side of magic, another side of life, to some of the normal things 15 yeard old girls do, and to less normal things like magical libraries and shops in London.

But all is not fun and games and Anna begins to wonder if her aunt was right all along.
… (mere)
 
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ArdizzoneFan | 6 andre anmeldelser | Dec 4, 2021 |
I think I didn't pay quite enough attention to the marketing or maybe this is a result of the UK not separating out ya from adult in SFF genres to the extent that the Americans do, but I didn't realise quite how ya the novel would be. It's modern day witches at high school, set in London, among relatively posh kids. I struggle with magic school books so I'm really not the audience but it was well written and put together with interesting magic. I would not recommend it to my friends who read adult SFF but I might recommend it to the few teens I know who read books of that flavour as it has a lot to offer that age group. In that sense, it is actually refreshing to read ya which feels, for once, targeted at actual ya readers instead of ya written for adults on the sly.… (mere)
 
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Sunyidean | 6 andre anmeldelser | Sep 7, 2021 |

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3
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411
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#59,241
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½ 3.5
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7
ISBN
12
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