4 of 5 stars<\/a><\/p>\nTime taken to read – in and out over 4 days<\/p>\n
Pages – 482<\/p>\n
Publisher – Wildfire<\/p>\n
Source – Bought<\/p>\n
Blurb from Goodreads <\/p>\n
There\u2019s power in a book\u2026<\/p>\n
They call them wayward girls. Loose girls. Girls who grew up too fast. And they\u2019re sent to the Wellwood Home in St. Augustine, Florida, where unwed mothers are hidden by their families to have their babies in secret, give them up for adoption, and most important of all, to forget any of it ever happened.<\/p>\n
Fifteen-year-old Fern arrives at the home in the sweltering summer of 1970, pregnant, terrified and alone. Under the watchful eye of the stern Miss Wellwood, she meets a dozen other girls in the same predicament. There\u2019s Rose, a hippie who insists she\u2019s going to find a way to keep her baby and escape to a commune. And Zinnia, a budding musician who knows she\u2019s going to go home and marry her baby\u2019s father. And Holly, a wisp of a girl, barely fourteen, mute and pregnant by no-one-knows-who.<\/p>\n
Everything the girls eat, every moment of their waking day, and everything they\u2019re allowed to talk about is strictly controlled by adults who claim they know what\u2019s best for them. Then Fern meets a librarian who gives her an occult book about witchcraft, and power is in the hands of the girls for the first time in their lives. But power can destroy as easily as it creates, and it\u2019s never given freely. There\u2019s always a price to be paid\u2026and it\u2019s usually paid in blood.<\/p>\n
In Witchcraft for Wayward Girls, the author of How to Sell a Haunted House and The Final Girl Support Group delivers another searing, completely original novel and further cements his status as a \u201chorror master\u201d (NPR).<\/p>\n
My Review <\/p>\n
So I kept seeing this on Booktok and I am a total FOMO so of course I had to buy and we had a wee visit to a witch fair so time to read it. It kicks off with a young girl being driven by her furious father, she is being taken to a house for girls like her, girls with a belly of trouble. Once there she is named after a flower, you help around the house, chores, you don’t tell anyone anything personal and at the end you give birth in hospital and your baby gets adopted. Each girl is coming from a different scenario but all are to hide away until their “mistake” over and then forget it happened and go to their old life. However the girls end up coming across some magic and find they can have some power, revenge and some say in their predicament and those who have harmed them, dun dun dun.<\/p>\n
So the first 100 odd pages we are focused on the girls and their tentative relationships, little bits of their information coming forward and friendships forming. Then we have some witchcraft, magic and things go quite dark. These girls are young teens, some really young and discussions of SA, abuse of power and details, graphic in some places about births. How badly some are treated because they are pregnant out of wedlock, it can make for difficult reading.<\/p>\n
The magic parts, especially the offerings, ooft I have a thing about some body parts so I found one particular scene quite barbaric that others may not feel it quite as bad. I think most of us as youngsters watched The Craft so anything with magic\/witches will always be a draw.<\/p>\n
This isn’t my first Hendrix book and it won’t be my last, 4\/5.\n<\/p>\n
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